> I think there is a section of programmer who actually do like the actual typing of letters, numbers and special characters into a computer, and for them, I understand LLMs remove the fun part.
Exactly me.
Exactly me.
One of the reasons why I learned vim was because I enjoy staying in the keyboard; I'm a fast typer and part of the fun is typing out the code I'm thinking.
I can see how some folks only really like seeing the final product rather than the process of building it but I'm just not cut for that — I hate entrepreneurship for the same reason, I enjoy the building part more than the end.
And it's the part that's killing me with all this hype.
I'm not entirely sure what that means myself, so please speak up if my statement resonates with you.
Drawing and painting is a ritual to me as well. No one pays me for it and I am happy about that.
Now the fun is gone, maybe I can do more important work.
This is a very sad, bleak, and utilitarian view of "work." It is also simply not how humans operate. Even if you only care about the product, humans that enjoy and take pride in what they're doing almost invariably produce better products that their customers like more.