... which involves fetching some data, displaying it, maybe doing some basic arithmetic and then shuffling it off to a DB?
drudgery.
bring the machines on so we don;t have to deal with this nonsense any more.
often in life i find myself reminding myself that everything is just something to do.
serious question, what do you then distinguish as enlightened pursuits vs not, for lack of a better word.
edit to add: i painted my family's garage in my teens, manually. and i'm thirties now and when i go to my family home i see the painted garage. it never leaves me, the value.
whatever it is, it ain't making websites.
>what do you then distinguish as enlightened pursuits
painting your garage is getting pretty close to it I think.
I'm disappointed with how unsophisticated modern web development is. Our tools and processes are extremely fragile and error prone, and frequently produce bug ridden junk. So much so that we feel the need to rewrite entire apps every n years if it hasn't already died under it's own weight by then.
The output we produce is 99% predestined by the tooling/framework we are placed in front of. And then we claim to be craftsmen.
Garden, tend land, and do arts.
Can't websites be art too? A mindless CRUD app is framed as such if BigCo tells us to do it for the billionth time.
But if it's our agency that compels us, even tho it's still just glue and CRUD, our pov makes it different for us, and we still have a potential to express ourselves in some way, some tiny way.
So it's not that websites as a thing is somehow un-enlightened. Lowly for the robots.
No, it seems there's Art in anything, art is an expressed point of view. I do agree that human value comes down to Art.
It depends on what you value. If you value efficiency, automation, thinking deeply about new problems, then gen AI will likely free you from what you consider tedium. However, that’s not to say that those are the only valuable characteristics. Painting your family home is a noble, rewarding thing. If you enjoy the work, then it’s worthy.