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> at least the piano doesn’t autocomplete my scales.

Oh just you wait!

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You can get the challenge back by designing something instead of coding it. Lots of wonderfully designed things are not actually that remarkable from the implementation / manufacturing standpoint.

Create a new board game. Completely unchallenging from a coding standpoint, vibe away. But the fast coding steps open up the ability to actually explore and adjust game play in real time. Start by replicating a favorite game.

Create your own organizational software tools. Whatever you would use and other tools dissappointed.

Those are just examples. Go creative on what a thing does, how it looks, etc.

Nintendo’s generations of game hardware are a repeated lesson in great design despite, even because of, modest internals.

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Yea, I never get these types of "AI killed the joy of insert hobby" arguments. By virtue of it being a hobby, I can make the conscious choice not to use AI for it. Really, there should be very few technological advances that can ever kill something that is truly a hobby (for example, people still knit, do metalworking, glassblowing, etc.). Now, if you want to get paid for working inefficiently compared to others, then yes, that will never happen.

There are some people who feel the hobby is meaningless if they know the machine is better at it.

And well, I entered the field professionally because I liked it, and I feel sort of like the rug was pulled under me. Sucks to be one of us I guess.

Those people aren’t pursuing a hobby, they’ve mentally signed themselves up for a competition with one entrant.

Where does it say anything about a hobby? The author is an entrepreneur. They're complaining that they're no longer enjoying a part of their job they used to enjoy, and your contribution is "it's a job, not a hobby, if you don't like it then boo hoo".

> > at least the piano doesn’t autocomplete my scales.

> Oh just you wait!

Yeah, most digital keyboards or midi controllers can “autocomplete” scales or arpeggios lol. Press one or two notes and it’ll play chords based on those nodes, sequenced however you like.

Anyways, I somewhat agree with the author. AI can generate a pretty solid solution to certain tasks. Then my work is how to review it for correctness and code quality, make sure it can be “operated” reasonably well, test it, etc. Those are not exactly the fun parts of programming. (The fun part for me is problem solving.)

But you make a solid point! Just hard to connect that to work sometimes.

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