If you're a programmer who thrives on building working systems and doesn't care too deeply about the problems solved along the way, LLMs are the gift that keeps on giving.
If directly solving those problems was a big part of your enjoyment, the loss is very real.
— My obituary for programming, Simon Willison's Weblog
Yeah I feel this both ways I think. I'm not sure which camp I fall into.
I think it depends. For personal software, it's amazing, the things I knew I could build but would take FOREVER, can now be done fairly quickly.
So I get to enjoy more software abundance to satisfy my every whim.
Simon commenting on Jeremy Scheff's post:
Yeah I feel this both ways I think. I'm not sure which camp I fall into.
I think it depends. For personal software, it's amazing, the things I knew I could build but would take FOREVER, can now be done fairly quickly.
So I get to enjoy more software abundance to satisfy my every whim.