I don’t understand this at all.
I’ve been a professional developper for nearly 20 years now. Started on my Amiga in 1992, went on to get a CS degree in 2006. I’ve worked on video codecs, financial systems, math-heavy workloads, frontend, backend. Done the C#, the Python, the React. I made games for my wife’s bday in pico 8. I made some cad stuff for my 3D printer.
Programming has always been a great source of joy.
And yet I have zero regrets using AI to write my code. None.
That thing is so fast. I remember an exceptionnally good programmer who used to spent time honing his typing skills so that he can program faster. he was so good his bottleneck was how fast he could type. AI is like this to me. It’s just helping me write faster.
There’s a reason we call them assistants. They are. Like actual assistants. They just assist me with doing the stuff that is tedious to me.
I am not arguing “love the product, not the tech”. It’s still the tech. I still look at the code that’s produced. And I still want it to look nice. “Rename this, rename that, abstract this away, you should do that loop first, oh no you gotta start over from scratch”. I tell the agents.
I don’t feel like I am not programming. It’s still the same job, just a lot faster and without the sore wrists.
We’re technologist, we write stuff to make people’s life simpler. And this time, the progress is make our lives simpler.
I’ve been a professional developper for nearly 20 years now. Started on my Amiga in 1992, went on to get a CS degree in 2006. I’ve worked on video codecs, financial systems, math-heavy workloads, frontend, backend. Done the C#, the Python, the React. I made games for my wife’s bday in pico 8. I made some cad stuff for my 3D printer.
Programming has always been a great source of joy.
And yet I have zero regrets using AI to write my code. None.
That thing is so fast. I remember an exceptionnally good programmer who used to spent time honing his typing skills so that he can program faster. he was so good his bottleneck was how fast he could type. AI is like this to me. It’s just helping me write faster.
There’s a reason we call them assistants. They are. Like actual assistants. They just assist me with doing the stuff that is tedious to me.
I am not arguing “love the product, not the tech”. It’s still the tech. I still look at the code that’s produced. And I still want it to look nice. “Rename this, rename that, abstract this away, you should do that loop first, oh no you gotta start over from scratch”. I tell the agents.
I don’t feel like I am not programming. It’s still the same job, just a lot faster and without the sore wrists.
We’re technologist, we write stuff to make people’s life simpler. And this time, the progress is make our lives simpler.