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Comment by honr

I do get pleasure from typing out the code in some languages (and not in others; hello javascript, java!). Similarly, I love writing text with a calligraphy or fountain pen. However, I can't dedicate too of the much work / business time to whatever is more pleasurable.

So, I "doodle" some text / ideas / planning with a calligraphy pen, and type in some code, occasionally, both mainly for the fun aspects. There are side benefits to both, too. Writing some plans slowly and "beautifully" drags them out and I get to think longer on them, so the sporadic "nice looking plans" are often more well thought. And doing the coding all by myself stops my brain from losing the ability. I was initially in the 100% AI-writes-all-code camp for a while and noticed I am getting notably slow in some personal coding skills. It is too early to treat specs as the new code and old languages as assembly (but I admit we might get there some day).

In other words, I think AI doing 90-99% of the coding, depending on the language verbosity and AI accuracy for the code at hand, is quite reasonable.

parent honr 6 months ago

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