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> the most beautiful thing in the Tech was taken away from us… coding

Yes, there'll be casualties. The most beautiful thing in tech isn't coding: it's producing value at scale.

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That's like saying the most beautiful thing in painting isn't the painting... it's selling gallery tickets.

It's like saying the most beautiful thing about a painting is not the smell of the paint

I am yet to hear about painting factories or teams of painters creating complex paintings. It's a great hobby, just like coding will soon be. There are a few fantastic painters, and there will be a few fantastic software engineers, I guess.

>I am yet to hear about painting factories or teams of painters creating complex paintings

There you go.

https://medium.com/lean-canvas-takedown/economic-lessons-fro...

You can still write code in obscure coding languages.

Problem is LLMs still produce very often code that disappoints. This ereases trust in it for me and makes me always regret the decision to try it yet again. In order to cope with that I try to read and understand the code to verify. But then there is no "scaling of value produced" because its not really faster than doing it all by myself - is this a me problem ? LLMs are no doubt great for searching, generating ideas etc. but programming...?

how is that not obviously subjective. if a coder is saying they enjoy coding what's the point in gaslighting them.

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