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ai coding killing the joy of coding is a real concern of mine. you have to use ai to be competitive productivity wise, yet this makes the act of building software less fun for people who actually enjoy writing code. For these people it’s just not as fun to build software anymore.

So is it really more productive if you start to slow down and get less motivated on cool projects?

A big motivation for me was the challenge of tackling a new engineering problem that hasn’t been solved yet: nostrdb for example. I don’t think i could have vibed nostrdb and had it turned out with the same quality.

maybe i shouldn’t give up on human coding for the initial innovation/engineering work 🤔

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cloud fodder · 3w

the code you wrote pre-ai. thats priceless

FeynStructure · 3w

I remember my first love... It was a first year uni class, and we were learning Fortran. It never lead anywhere for me personally, but for three months I was obsessed. It felt like I was a sorcerer mastering an arcane language to cast digital spells. Good times.

ChipTuner · 3w

This is a problem engineers writing production code have dealt with since the beginning engineering products. The work you enjoy isn't always what people want. That's life. The key is finding a way to work with it while still producing. For example, myself and others I know take a weekend or some ...

Jacob 🍵 · 3w

I don't have any issue using AI to help debug and figure out what is going wrong when things break. On the flip side, I don't think it's a great idea to let the AI write the code itself. I'm not a coder by profession but I am trying to enter the world of microcontrollers, and I am learning how to co...

Alex Gleason · 3w

You absolutely can steer it as an engineer. I don't feel less of an engineer.

JackTheMimic · 3w

Is there a way to create flows where you design everything but AI does all of the typographical heavy lifting? I frel like the only real advantage vibe coders have over competent programmers is the speed at which the key strokes fly. (Maybe even taking up stenography could shorten the speed gap quit...

Weatherall · 3w

since this appears to fit the defintion of a concern troll, imma lament the jettisoning of Euclid in these matters altogether and posit that western civilization made a grave error in doing just that,

Same with design. It used to be fun and rewarding. Now, I haven’t touched Figma in months.

code monkey · 3w

I think that's true, but probably was true for assembly languages and C to an extent right? I mean idk, the abstraction of coding made it accessible to retarded people, as I wouldn't have been able to be proficient in lower level languages. Some engineering stuff will still be fun, but probably in...

This is exactly what people used to say about assembler programming language as well. In fact, there were some clowns so hip on assembler that they created that universal assembler language UAL you can even look it up.

I can't speak to your enjoyment but I'm having more fun coding with AI than I've had in decades. Probably since I was a teenager.

💯💯💯💯💯 Keep enjoying your craftmanship!

SatsAndSports · 3w

I find the opposite actually. I've always loved coding, and I love it more than ever thanks to AI > yet this makes the act of building software less fun for people who actually enjoy writing code Any time I realize I've designed an interface badly, or otherwise the code needs some sort of redesig...

yes I always wonder if you had implemented the lists three years ago instead of starting nostrdb

I don't think programming is going away. We will eventually turn prompting into a new kind of programming language. People already are noticing how bad prompts give you bad results. So it makes sense to invent a new kind of programming language where the AI is the compiler.