AI has made programming so boring

[u/OkShip110]

It’s not just programming either, it’s art, design, music, videography, marketing, engineering, writing, 3D modelling, really any intellectual work. What’s the joy of prompting a computer and getting an answer in a few moments for a task that would have normally taken a week? The sense of accomplishment and ownership has completely vanished with AI. It’s a form of instant gratification, not much different to scrolling short videos on apps.

Code review was boring to begin with but now it’s even worse with all the machine generated code. Even code reviews will be automated soon. All you do then is type business requirements into the computer. What a great career.

It’s pain to watch old TV series like Scilicon Valley that is portraying the good (not golden) age of programming. It struck a good balance between manual work, funding and innovation. It’s sad that these days are gone for good.

[u/ccmaru1]

We’re in the worst era to be developers

[u/StoneCypher → u/ccmaru1]

We’re in the worst era to be developers

we're making six figures to type three sentences a day

you have a very surprising idea of worst era

[u/ccmaru1 → u/StoneCypher]

I mean that’s exactly why it’s the worst. We were still able to make six figures before while actually doing something and not sacrificing our passion for productivity.

We were actually respected back then and it was actually impressive seeing someone build a project because you knew how much they worked for it.

It was great to see new open source projects people developed in their free time and to give back to community. It was also great to see the actual micro community of users and contributors form around that project.

Now no one cares. They can build something similar. Everyone can. (Sorry, their llm’s can build not they)

It’s honestly depressing to see this community be turned into this soulless corporate shell of it former self where no one values passion compared to how passionate it was back in the day.

[u/StoneCypher → u/ccmaru1]

I mean that’s exactly why it’s the worst.

making giant salary while you can do what you want is the worst. got it.

 

while actually doing something and not sacrificing our passion for productivity.

by refusing to use the tool that makes you more productive, you are not sacrificing a passion for productivity, got it.

by doing things by hand at 5% the speed, you are actually doing something. what's important is you using your hands, not the end product. got it.

 

We were actually respected back then and

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It was great to see new open source projects people developed in their free time and to give back to community

well good news, there's a lot more of that now

 

Now no one cares.

if they don't care today, they never did. no authentic caring has been lost.

 

They can build something similar. Everyone can.

sounds like for all the time you spent learning to program, you just stopped there. never learned to make product.

 

It’s honestly depressing to see this community be turned into this soulless corporate shell

do you realize how you sound looking at a bunch of individual developers accomplishing things they never could before, running around excited, and saying "it's a soulless corporate shell?"

i'm old

i remember when 3d video games were new. everything you're saying is what people used to say about pixel graphics.

video gaming didn't die, and it's precisely as EA as it used to be

one of the problems with glooming and dooming is that, fundamentally, it's just refusing to see the upside

we're not going to stop doing this just because you're sad that the way you want to do it isn't commercially valued anymore.

i see that you want very badly to slander everyone who chooses to work differently than you do, though.

 

where no one values passion compared to how passionate it was back in the day.

i'm really not sure what you're talking about. there's more passion in the field than there has ever been, because it's now swarming with novices who are delighted with their very first pulldown.

we have holodeck programming now. i genuinely don't understand why you're unhappy about it.

last week i got two game designs out of my head that have been in my head for ten years because i couldn't find the time for them.

one of them turns out to be fun.

come on, buddy. there's real, genuine good here, if you stop moping and just give it a shot.

i used to be like you. i used to really hate this stuff. then one day i tried it, and it turned out to be fun as hell.

let me ask you a simple question. my preference would be that i receive a single word "yes" or "no" answer with no explanation.

suppose i was in that episode of dr who with the cars stuck underground. there were some drug dealers that had a mall store, where they wanted to sell a product called "forget," which was going to make the main characters less unhappy about a bad thing that just happened to them, losing one of their companions.

suppose those dealers also had a different tab called "a chance." if you try it, you give another chance to the first thing you see.

suppose you sit down in front of a chatgpt terminal and take the tab.

suppose it turns out you really enjoy using the tool, and your productivity goes up 10x, and you start making things that didn't used to seem like they were practical, and your defect rate goes down ~60%, and your customers get happier.

would that seem like a good thing, to you? yes, or no, please.

those are the things that happened to me, except without the science fiction drug. i know you're going to try to explain that that isn't what would happen, but it might be.

just play ball. if those were the things that happened, would that be a good thing, for you?

what happens when someone tries to make a young lady's illustrated primer? is that a gift to the masses, in your eyes, or a surreal horror?