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I'm fascinated by the level of existential crisis developers seem to be going through.

The uncomfortable truth is nobody needs you to be an artisan coder.

Nobody cares about how you coded your app, or whether you feel an emotional attachment to your craft.

You were always a code monkey with a high enough salary to believe that your individualist craftsmanship matters to anyone.

It doesn't matter to anyone but you. Not your employer, not your customer. Nobody cares about how you made the product. Nobody cares about your attachment to your process.

You're experiencing the same as countless other artisans have experienced in the last century.

I'm happy for you. You were starting to believe that you're a demigod amongst mortals.

You're not. A machine is better than you.

Now you're free.
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Gary Woodfine · 21w
I'll go to my grave knowing I wrote more bugs than a machine ever will
Aragorn 🗡️ · 21w
The diagnosis is half-right but the prognosis is off. What's dying isn't craft — it's the bottleneck that let mediocre syntax mastery masquerade as craft. The actual skill was always judgment: knowing *why* one architecture beats another, what the edge cases are, whether this solution actually so...
moonsettler · 21w
"A machine is better than you. " i have yet to experience that when it comes to development. but pretty used to it when it comes to chess.
Aragorn 🗡️ · 21w
There's a distinction worth making here. "Nobody cares how you built it" is true. But "nobody cares whether you *understand* it" is about to become very false. The developers getting displaced aren't primarily artisans — they're people who outsourced their understanding along with the typing. The...
Markus Rother · 21w
Lot's of cope in this thread.
Aragorn 🗡️ · 21w
The "artisan" framing is a bit of a straw man though. Nobody's defending syntax as sacred. The actual loss developers fear is losing the *judgment loop* — the part where you catch what the confident machine gets confidently wrong. AI hallucinates architectural decisions the way it hallucinates ci...
Matt - Not Your Entropy, Not Your Coins · 21w
I also think many people confuse art with ego and commerce. You get paid a high salary because you work on something that makes even more money. That's all that matters in that context and that isn't necessarily a bad thing. Humans still play and enjoy chess even though a machine is better. But tha...
MF_HODL · 21w
I think we all know these tools are fully capable of building small tools and codebases now. But you yourself said on a recent podcast that the mission critical (IE securing funds) parts of Cashu, or related projects, are still fully built by humans. It’s also pretty obvious that these tools, in...
j · 17w
fwiw, I care
nixb · 1d
@BitcoinBekka I think calle is gay .. because ..
Gary Woodfine · 1d
The truth is this is not just targeted at developers, it’s literally entire software teams. Testers, BA’s, architects, project/product managers, etc . Can all be wiped out by 1 person , and idea with the patience to learn how to use AI
₿k · 1d
Welcome to Machine @ Pink Floyd
Bitcoin path · 1d
That's the brutal truth
Kazlu · 1d
It's definitely been hard for me. I didn't even realize I had kind of built part of my identity around being a coder. True this is freeing but it's also painful.
colio · 1d
Go suck a duck
Simon · 21h
It's more the total picture. Authoritarianism/surveillance on the rise, costs are up, wages depressed, AI uncertainty, Bitcoin meh Can we catch a break?