Completely backwards - the fun in the job should be to solve problems and come up with solutions. The fun in the job is not knowing where to place a semicolon.
> Completely backwards - the fun in the job should be to solve problems and come up with solutions.
Aren't the coding agents supposed to be doing that too? You give them the problem, they code up a solution, then the engineer is left with the review it to see if it's good enough.
> The fun in the job is not knowing where to place a semicolon.
That's like such a minor and easy-to-do thing that I'm surprised you're even bringing it up.
imho “tell them what you want and let them come up with a solution” is a really naive way to use these tools nearly guaranteed to end up with slopware.
the more up front design I’ve given thought to, they are usually very accurate in delivering to the point I dont need to spend very much time reviewing at all. and, this is a step I would have had to do anyway if doing it by hand, so it feels natural, and results in far more correct code more often than I could have on my own, and allows multitasking several projects at once, which would have been impossible before.
man... can we not just accept that individuals have their own motivations and maybe my reasons for wanting to do the job aren't the same as yours?
I think i'm going to let people decide for themselves what they enjoy in their job rather than pretending I know better than they do what they should and should not enjoy.
Who are you to tell anyone what the fun "should" be?
Personally, I find writing code very fun, because building the solution is also very gratifying.
Besides which, in my experience until you actually write the code you haven't proven that you solved anything. It's so easy to think you have solved a problem when you haven't, but you won't figure that out until you actually try to apply your solution
> The fun in the job is not knowing where to place a semicolon.
This can be solved with simple linters, no need for LLMs
If a person needs an LLM to figure where an semicolon goes, a LLM is not going to help them code.
You don't need to be a software engineer to do that.
How do you learn that without programming?
Someone posted on here the other day about how they were taking a non-credit writing class in college so as to improve their writing, that was the reason the course existed. 90% of the class was kicked out because they were using LLMs to write for them, when the entire purpose of the class was to improve ones own writing.
Why do you think it will be any different with programming?
I'm stealing this.