Programming

Simon commenting on Jeremy Scheff's post:

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.

It definitely makes the size much smaller - we can all move faster with agents.

The idea of a "pirate" and "architect" is interesting but boy are we going to burn a lot of tokens. Maybe that's ok for the speed gain?

I like Scott's take here. It's not dead. Never was. Just changed.

oooo, boy going through this right now.

As a newcomer to a long-existing codebase recently, AI provides a lot of productivity gains.\ You can choose how you use AI.\ Choose wisely.