I think that we should start to doubt the idea that "AI made people code faster", that's not the case for a lot of people, if you know the requisites and have an idea in mind music make you code faster because it help focus.
AI coding made me faster, but I can't code to music anymore
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Re: AI coding made me faster, but I can't code to music anymore
#162In my experience, listening to music engages the creative part of your brain and severely limits what you can do, but this is not readily apparent. If I listen to music, I can spend an hour CODING YEAH! and be all smug and satisfied, until I turn the music off and discover that everything I've coded is unnecessary and there is an easier way to achieve the same goal. I just didn't see it, because the creative part of…
There is no “creative part of the brain” and even if there was listening to music would have nothing to do with it.
You may be experiencing getting to different understanding of sth when you switch context. Similar to when you are stack it may be better to go for a walk than keep your head on top of a piece of paper or screen. I have had many of my breakthroughs while taking a shit in the toilet in the midst of working. Others experience similar with showers and whatever.
Afaik most ppl listen to music during certain tasks because it helps focusing. Esp when working in a busy office it really helps me to listen to certain kinds of predictable music to keep me from getting distracted. It creates a sort of entrainment that helps with attention.
Some people find music itself distracting, I myself find some kinds of music distracting, or during certain types of tasks. Then it obviously it does not fill its purpose.
Re: AI coding made me faster, but I can't code to music anymore
#163My take on this is that, while it’s harder to read code than it is to write it - it’s still faster to read code than to write it (it’s just not as much fun).
Re: AI coding made me faster, but I can't code to music anymore
#164Earlier quoted context omitted.
> The excitement of getting a day's work done in an hour* (for example) is likely to fade once the expectation is to produce 8 of such old-days output per day. That dumb attitude (which I understand you’re criticising) of “more more more” always reminds me of Lenny from the Simpsons moving fast through the yellow light, with nowhere to go. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QR10t-B9nYY > I suspect it doesn't matter how…
> "If it's going to happen it will" - That is quite the defeatist attitude. Society becoming shittier isn’t inevitable You're right in general, but I don't think that'll save you/us from OP's statement. This is simple economic incentives at play. If AI-coding is even marginally more economically efficient (i.e. more for less) the "old way" will be swept aside at breathtaking pace (as we're seeing). The "from my cold…
> If AI-coding is even marginally more economically efficient (i.e. more for less) the "old way" will be swept aside at breathtaking pace (as we're seeing).
On the scale I’ve been doing this (20 years), that hasn’t been the case.
Rails was massively more efficient for what 90% of companies where building. But it never had anywhere near a 90% market share.
It doesn’t take 1000 engineers to build CRUD apps, but companies are driven to grow by forces other than pure market efficiency.
There are still plenty of people using simple text editors when full IDEs have offered measurable productivity boosts for decades.
>(as we’re seeing)
I work at a big tech company. Productivity per person hasn’t noticeably increased. The speed that we ship hasn’t noticeably increased. All that’s happening is an economic downturn.
Re: AI coding made me faster, but I can't code to music anymore
#165I really don't get it.
While letting the AI write some code can be cool and fascinating, I really can't undersand how:
- write the prompt(and you need do be precise and think and express carefully what you have in mind)
- check/try the code
- repeat
is better than writing the code by myself. AI coding like this feels like a nightmare to me and it's 100x more exhausting.
Re: AI coding made me faster, but I can't code to music anymore
#166Earlier quoted context omitted.
Nope, not until AI is writing high quality, maintainable software; and no one knows if that's even possible yet.
What caused textile machines to replace the manual labor wasn’t the quality of their output, it was quantity. In fact, manually made clothing was of higher quality than what was machine-produced.
That’s a misconception.
The machines we’re talking about made raw cloth not clothing and it was actually higher quality in many respects because of accuracy and repeatability.
Almost all clothing is still made by hand one piece at a time with sewing machines still very manually operated.
Re: AI coding made me faster, but I can't code to music anymore
#167Earlier quoted context omitted.
A low quality fabric makes the fashion police come and arrest you. Low quality software kills people.
Safety critical (will kill someone if not bug free) code makes up Both will stay manual / require high level of review they're not what's being disrupted (at-least in near term) - it's the rest.
Nearly all clothing is still produced in an extremely manual process.
What was automated was the production of raw cloth.
Re: AI coding made me faster, but I can't code to music anymore
#168I really don't get it. While letting the AI write some code can be cool and fascinating, I really can't undersand how: - write the prompt(and you need do be precise and think and express carefully what you have in mind) - check/try the code - repeat is better than writing the code by myself. AI coding like this feels like a nightmare to me and it's 100x more exhausting.
I bet some people felt the same way when we collectively moved from assembly to compilers.
Re: AI coding made me faster, but I can't code to music anymore
#169Re: AI coding made me faster, but I can't code to music anymore
#170I really don't get it. While letting the AI write some code can be cool and fascinating, I really can't undersand how: - write the prompt(and you need do be precise and think and express carefully what you have in mind) - check/try the code - repeat is better than writing the code by myself. AI coding like this feels like a nightmare to me and it's 100x more exhausting.
I bet some people felt the same way when we collectively moved from assembly to compilers.
Yeah, if not only for the small fact that you are leaving a well defined set of rules for pure chaos and randomness this time around.