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As someone who's been coding for several decades now (i.e. I'm old), I find the current generation of AI tools very ... freeing. As an industry, we've been preaching the benefits of running lots of small experiments to see what works vs what doesn't, try out different approaches to implementing features, and so on. Pre-AI, lots of these ideas never got implemented because they'd take too much time for no definitive b…
Just wanted to +1 this as a deep thinker who disagrees with the blog post's conclusion. I remember back on the years and decades I wasted dealing with the conceptual flaws inherent to nearly all software, and it breaks my heart. 90-99% of programming is a waste of time. Most apps today have less than a single spreadsheet page of actual business logic. The rest is boilerplate. Conjuring up whatever arcane runes are ne…
That's such a weird perspective. No matter your dissatisfaction with the software available, the computers we had were perfectly fine for writing whatever software you wanted to write.
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Try writing more documentation. If your project is bigger than a one man team then you need it anyways and with LLM coding you effectively have an infinite man team.
But that doesn't actually work for my use cases though, plenty of other people have already told me "I'm Holding It Wrong" without actual suggestions that work I've started ignoring them. At this stage I just assume many people work in very different sectors, and some see the "great benefits" often proselytized on the internet. And other areas don't see that. Systems programming, where I work, seems to be a poor fit…