Thanks for reading / commenting this post. Initially it seemed like I received a bunch of very negative comments, now I read most of the thread, and there are very good points, articulated with sensibility. Thank you.
I wanted to provide some more context that is not part of the blog post. Since somebody may believe I don't enjoy / love the act of writing code.
1. I care a lot about programming, I love creating something from scratch, line by line. But: at this point, I want to do programming in a way that makes me special, compared to machines. When the LLM hits a limit, and I write a function in a way it can't compete, that is good.
2. If I write a very small program that is like a small piece of poetry, this is good human expression. I'll keep doing this as well.
3. But, if I need to develop a feature, and I have a clear design idea, and I can do it in 2 hours instead of 2 weeks, how to justify to myself that, just for what I love, I will use a lot more time? That would be too much of ego-centric POV, I believe.
4. For me too this is painful, as a transition, but I need to adapt. Fortunately I also enjoyed a lot the design / ideas process, so I can focus on that. And write code myself when needed.
5. The reason why I wrote this piece is because I believe there are still a lot of people that are unprepared for the fact we are going to be kinda of obsolete in what defined us, as a profession: the ability to write code. A complicated ability requiring a number of skills at the same time, language skills, algorithms, problem decomposition. Since this is painful, and I believe we are headed in a certain direction, I want to tell the other folks in programming to accept reality. It will be easier, this way.
I wanted to provide some more context that is not part of the blog post. Since somebody may believe I don't enjoy / love the act of writing code.
1. I care a lot about programming, I love creating something from scratch, line by line. But: at this point, I want to do programming in a way that makes me special, compared to machines. When the LLM hits a limit, and I write a function in a way it can't compete, that is good.
2. If I write a very small program that is like a small piece of poetry, this is good human expression. I'll keep doing this as well.
3. But, if I need to develop a feature, and I have a clear design idea, and I can do it in 2 hours instead of 2 weeks, how to justify to myself that, just for what I love, I will use a lot more time? That would be too much of ego-centric POV, I believe.
4. For me too this is painful, as a transition, but I need to adapt. Fortunately I also enjoyed a lot the design / ideas process, so I can focus on that. And write code myself when needed.
5. The reason why I wrote this piece is because I believe there are still a lot of people that are unprepared for the fact we are going to be kinda of obsolete in what defined us, as a profession: the ability to write code. A complicated ability requiring a number of skills at the same time, language skills, algorithms, problem decomposition. Since this is painful, and I believe we are headed in a certain direction, I want to tell the other folks in programming to accept reality. It will be easier, this way.