level87
Joined 4 years ago
Joined 4 years ago
There are still machinists doing things by hand, but for real production or prototyping, most will now use a 5-axis CNC machine. It still requires an operator of sorts, but much of the work that once required skilled manual machining is now done by CNC.
I think the same thing is happening here; it’s just that the transition is messy.
Give it five years, and how we get to the end result will not matter nearly as much as it does now. A messy codebase will be irrelevant, as it will be something managed and controlled by the LLM, written in a way optimised for itself, not for you or I.
Personally I never use the actual IDE, and much prefer Claude code with helix in the terminal.
I’m finding the pressure at work to be faster and more productive gets in the way of actual learning.
I’m starting to believe that code will not matter soon, as long as it works, then everything will just be a single natural language interaction to make a change.
But overtime I'm sure it would arrive at a solid, user tested bill splitter that you can just tweak and customise as much or as little as you like, saves it to your profile and there you are, a reusable, fully customisable tool.