Hacker News Reader

“Writing the code” is not the same as programming. The ai WRITES most of the code for me, but I’m still doing 95% of the PROGRAMMING.

View on HN

Exactly. The AI writes the implementation details while I'm still doing the actual programming: defining problems, designing architectures, ensuring correctness, and making the difficult tradeoffs that require domain knowledge and judgment.

I wonder how much of the sessions will be used to train up agents that can do more of the programming. I'm certainly providing lots of feedback so they don't mess up so often in the future

Someone also said extending this pattern into the future is probably why computers in Star Trek mess up

Writing the code? How about reading it and explaining it?

Working on undocumented legacy code (read: probably the majority of all embedded code in the world) is now like 100x faster. No need to plow through a massive codebase and trying to grasp expired toolchains for weeks/months anymore.

How is that not part of programming?

Reply on news.ycombinator.com