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It might be that I haven't put enough time in, but, I haven't found it as ergonomic as SolidPython (OpenSCAD wrapper).

Have you found that it becomes more natural?

It's easier to install ublock origin and sponsorblock than to subscribe, and it's free.

Lol, that's awesome.

Have you met users?

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Same, for sure. I'm not actually sure I've come out ahead. I've probably wasted at least a year of work in each direction.

In spite of my above-stated preference, I used Django for my most-recent project, and don't regret that decision a bit.

Same as people often say about AI writing bespoke applications, these days... Libraries (like applications) often have 98% stuff you don't need, and 2% stuff you do. You can end up better off with your own thing.

I've always liked writing my own libraries and minimal frameworks for PHP, which seems to be a very unpopular opinion, but it almost entirely removes churn from your stack, which is nice for tools that may stick around for years or decades. I also never switched off jquery, preferring simple techs. I'm almost definitely operating at a smaller scale than most web developers here, though.

Terminator, War Games, The Matrix...

Metropolis (1927) had robots that infiltrated a revolution to sabotage it for their masters.

Frankenstein (1818)?

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> How do you measure that?

Vibes.

Reviews take way more time than new features, and often utilize 3 subagents at a time - it's not uncommon to have reviews take 3 hours when the feature only took 15 minutes. The numbers here are just estimates, though - I don't keep track. "10x to 20x tokens on review" is probably underestimating review cost, if anything.

I don't review all code myself, but I do spend down-time reading code. When I find obviously bad code/patterns/whatever, I don't just fix it directly - I work to create automated tests (like static analysis, almost) or adjust or create prompts and tools for agents (either for review stage or initial implementation) to solve that class of issue, instead of just that instance of it.

I never review the first iteration. I review it after the agents have already poured a ton of time into it, if ever.

I do sometimes watch agents work, and redirect them if I see them doing something dumb. But, usually, I have 5+ agents running, not counting sub-agents, and I'm just messing with the apps myself to find the next feature to create or polish.

> they don't value correctness

I spend ~10-20 tokens on correctness and codebase cleanliness for every 1 I spend on new features.

YOE is ~30, from my first PHP app to present. I've spent somewhere between 5 and 80 hours a week coding for the past 30 years, mostly self-employed, writing tools and creating custom CNC machines/robots for my own business, but more recently doing same thing for a company as a full time employee.

I still get to do some coding, where there are safety-critical production systems, but the work is mostly tooling that gets us to that point or supports the business otherwise.

It's an awesome job. Couldn't be funner, pretty much, except on data collection days. I get high level tasks, or come up with my own, and find or build solutions - no more running a whole business, doing production, keeping books, shipping orders, doing customer support - I only do the stuff I like.

Well, I used to pay more attention to the code, and then I found that if I spent more tokens having the AI review its work than actually creating new features, I was able to get more, better work done.

The AI review stage is where I've found prompting matters a lot more than that initial prototyping phase. I've iterated on prompts and tooling that help the AI keep the codebase clean-ish.

If you can find exercise that's "play" for you, that's the trick.

I like hacky sack and kettlebells. I can play hacky sack for 15 minutes, wherever I am, and easily keep my heart rate between 160 and 190 bpm. I can do kettlebells in my bedroom in 15 minutes, and stay pretty strong and capable. They're both genuinely fun for me, and leave me feeling better (lower stress, more alert, stronger, more agile, more attractive, less like a lazy slob).

I never could spend 10 minutes to and from the gym, and another 45 there, or anything like that. I feel lucky to have found these things I do like.

> It's not even close.

That's always been my experience. Not even close. One gives you legos that lets you make a plastic toy, and the other is an industrial machine shop for code.

I thought maybe I was holding VSCode wrong, though.