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Comment by omnicognate | Hacker News Reader

> a lot of people don't understand that the joy of making something is not coding but actually being able to build anything I want

I expect "a lot of people" understand perfectly well that that's where the joy comes from for you. Do you not understand that other people have different motivations?

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Crafting code in your preferred language in a way that it is easily understood by others or fulfills some other constraints while doing whatever algorithm requires can be as fulfilling as writing poetry.

I can write „you live, you die, get over with it, life is hard, love hurts” - it basically encodes all wisdom of countless poems, books. Yet I have seen many people getting that idea better when the knowledge of this simple truth is in a form of a story.

Conversely, if you write an algorithm using better structure, better data structures it makes a lot of difference.

coding for the sake of coding is, well, dumb.

Is painting for the sake of painting dumb too?

that's a dumb comparison. are you equating writing code to painting like Michaelangelo?

Did Michaelangelo paint his works himself, or did he buy a bunch of slaves and give them some prompting?

Eh, take your fav painter then.

The number of down votes the parent comment has seems to me like a litmus test of people who will use AI and those that are just critical of it.

I have my reservations about AI but so far I’ve found ways to make me faster. So I’ll continue to use it but make sure to review my usage regularly.

The number of downvotes reflects the fact that people don't consider just calling something "dumb" a worthwhile contribution to the discussion.

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