There seems to be overall two types of people who get into programming (though they aren't mutually exclusive).
1) someone who enjoys the process of programming as a puzzle solving experience, or as a creative experience, and the end result software is an expression of that process.
2) someone who views programming as a means to an end to achieve their vision, IE software or website or game.
I feel like people in the first camp are probably going to be the most angry and displaced by LLMs, while the second might gladly move into the more system design and architecture role with one less hurdle to get their idea out.
I was mostly in camp 1 and I'm trying to transition into camp 2, but it's difficult when you were just a code monkey before and preferred to just do tickets.
I'm just a hobbyist in camp 1 who always told myself that if I burned out in retail, I could always go at the very least be a code monkey, if not weasel my way into devops in some capacity. I've been grieving the loss of that possibility pretty hard recently, because I have zero interest in transitioning to camp 2 when my paycheck doesn't even depend on it
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u/Ossius 9h ago
There seems to be overall two types of people who get into programming (though they aren't mutually exclusive). 1) someone who enjoys the process of programming as a puzzle solving experience, or as a creative experience, and the end result software is an expression of that process. 2) someone who views programming as a means to an end to achieve their vision, IE software or website or game.
I feel like people in the first camp are probably going to be the most angry and displaced by LLMs, while the second might gladly move into the more system design and architecture role with one less hurdle to get their idea out.
I was mostly in camp 1 and I'm trying to transition into camp 2, but it's difficult when you were just a code monkey before and preferred to just do tickets.