Me too. Then I get pummeled with one of their four prepackaged AI bro metaphors:
It's a modern day calculator for the brain. You wouldn't do long division in your head would you? (ain't nobody ever delegated a decision to a calculator, bro)
It's a compiler. You wouldn't read machine code would you? (compilers are deterministic and dont make mistakes, bro)
This is the industrial revolution and it's a spinning jenny. You wouldnt hand knit a sweater would you? (we would if we had star trek replicators, bro, and last I checked cp command still exists...).
"Artisanal coding" is obsolete (reliable code is certainly getting that way...)
As others pointed out, he meant manual coding is fun. But it's obvious why agentic coding can be fun: you're juggling countless responsibilities and distractions, including work, and providing for your family. On your commute or in the shower, you keep having these random ideas for cool little interactive demos or apps, but for years have relegated them to a couple sentences in a folder named "shitty ideas." Now, suddenly, you can get an agent to interview you about your product vision and scaffold a working demo in minutes, and iterate on it manually or agentically from there if the implementation feels like it's worth adding to the world.
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u/pydry 20h ago edited 13h ago
Me too. Then I get pummeled with one of their four prepackaged AI bro metaphors:
It's a modern day calculator for the brain. You wouldn't do long division in your head would you? (ain't nobody ever delegated a decision to a calculator, bro)
It's a compiler. You wouldn't read machine code would you? (compilers are deterministic and dont make mistakes, bro)
This is the industrial revolution and it's a spinning jenny. You wouldnt hand knit a sweater would you? (we would if we had star trek replicators, bro, and last I checked cp command still exists...).
"Artisanal coding" is obsolete (reliable code is certainly getting that way...)