But coding is just tedious boring nonsense 99% of the time.
To anyone reading this far down, do not let people like this build the narrative that there is no joy in your hobby or profession. These are thieves trying to rob you of your enthusiasm for life.
I think the nuance is, having a computer write “hello world!” Is actually pretty cool when you think about it, and it’s only the beginning. When you get to the point of writing production solutions. Logging can seem pretty tedious, albeit useful.
Look, I normally take a very combative tone in conversations like these, but I want to emphasize, I genuinely, really love writing software. I’ve written my own libraries, libraries that already exist elsewhere, because I want to learn. What AI is doing to my industry makes me very sad.
To anyone reading this far down, do not let people like this build the narrative that there is no joy in your hobby or profession. These are thieves trying to rob you of your enthusiasm for life.
I think the nuance is, having a computer write “hello world!” Is actually pretty cool when you think about it, and it’s only the beginning. When you get to the point of writing production solutions. Logging can seem pretty tedious, albeit useful.
I do write production solutions.
Look, I normally take a very combative tone in conversations like these, but I want to emphasize, I genuinely, really love writing software. I’ve written my own libraries, libraries that already exist elsewhere, because I want to learn. What AI is doing to my industry makes me very sad.