This is an absolute larp. No doubt you use a washing machine and not a washboard. Hand coding in a few years will be like using the washboard when there's a washing machine.
Like using a calculator. I use one, but I still use paper math too, and calculate manageable sums/multiplications in my head. I'd feel dull otherwise.
GPS. I use one, but I still pay attention to the route and keep a sense of direction. “Why bother knowing where you are when the machine can tell you?” isn't really an argument for outsourcing your own brain.
If it didn't, if the neural computer interface was real and seamless, I would use that for sure. Come to think of it, I probably wouldn't even notice.
Even ignoring the ongoing electricity and maintenance costs of using a washing machine, plenty of people around the country choose every week to use a pay per wash laundromat rather than a bucket and a washboard. Heck I used to rent a washer and dryer in an apartment, paying per month for the convenience of not using the pay per wash on site laundromat.
The skill of using LLMs for code generation is in recognising these scenarios; knowing when to use it and when to not.
If your end goal is "get this piece of software out the door as quickly as possible" then yea - drop the ticket into Jira, that's what the business probably wants anyway.
If you want to garner a deeper understanding of a system, exercise your critical thinking / creative problem solving abilities, improve pattern recognition and memorization abilities... You probably aren't going to get that from "fix ticket-1485, no mistakes"
To me, writing code manually really digs into those "critical thinking skills" at a low level - logic bugs, tracing complex code paths, hell even troubleshooting a syntax issue exercises pattern recognition skills.
It's the same reason I don't use LLMs for communicating with other humans. I think that understanding LLM output, crafting a sentence, highlighting the critical points, and using proper terminology in my OWN writing style requires good language skills and keeps me sharp.
To each their own, but it takes 15-20 minutes a day to rock a leetcode problem and is a great way to get the brain moving.
Not sure I get the "you're a dinosaur" approach. Let people handcode if they want, if they're not performing at work they will be put on PIP or fired, or we'll all be out of a job because AI is so good.
So instead of asking the clanker "fix ticket 1734", you can ask it to write the function that input x and output y, in that file. You still, in some way, "practice critical thinking", while not manually writing code.
And even so, the energy efficiency of modern dishwashers with turbidity sensors is very good, and actually can be more efficient than hand-washing, especially if that requires multiple bowls full of water.
Obviously there are limits, but if you stack during the day and stick it on overnight, then it's pretty efficient, even for a single person.
Regardless of how efficient a dishwasher might be.
When washing by hand, I did what you imply you do, which is use much, much less than bowlfulls of water for my meal. I get what parent is saying though, because of the numerous roommates I'd had while single, some of them would use gallons of water to wash a single meals worth of dishes, i.e. the plate, cutlery, and maybe a cup. Much more if they had cooked their meal instead of microwaved it
There is so many things that AIs can do just as well and much faster. Not just coding but all other kinds of things in art and craft. Like why sculpt anything by hand when you can just get AI do model and then 3d print it.
Recreation is different, you're doing it for the fun of it, to learn.
This is a common misdirection. Nobody is charting with an AI song. Nobody cares about AI pop music. People are however using ai for jingles, interstitials, elevator music etc because nobody cares if some failed musician has poured his heart and soul into a theme tune for the menu of an educational dvd, they just want the end product... Nobody cares if formulaic crap is soulless, because it already was.
Stop with these terrible comparisons. Code is (mostly) expected to keep working and be maintainable for lots of time following its inception. If your clothes are clean and not destroyed, the task is complete.
So yes, he's larping if he thinks not using an llm is the humble life
> I try to keep myself sharp by still manually doing a fair amount of things in my life.
I then list a load of shit that shows hes doing next to fuck all manually.
The man is larping.
I get what you're going for, but it's not a good comparison.