This is a post that just reads as if the author is still in the “honeymoon” stage of their career where programming is seen as this extremely liberating and highly creative endeavour that no other mortal can comprehend.
I get the feeling and I was there too, but, writing code has always been a means to an end which is to deliver business value. Painting it as this almost abstract creative process is just… not true. While there are many ways to attack a given problem, the truth is once you factor in efficiency, correctness, requirements and the patterns your team uses then the search space of acceptable implementations reduces a lot.
Learn a couple of design patterns, read a couple of blogs and chat with your team and that’s all you need.
Letting an LLM write down the correct and specific ideas you tell it to based on what I wrote earlier means your free time to do code reviews, attend important meetings, align on high level aspects and help your team members all which multiply the value you deliver only through code.
Let LLMs automate the code writing so I can finally program in peace, I say!
I get that at some point you have to put food on the table, but why conflate the enterprisey, economical, object-oriented mess of things with your hobby?
You can, in theory, still program elegant little side projects with no pretense of business value or any customer besides, maybe, yourself.
I find that my work-coding and hobby-coding are different enough that they don't even feel like the same activity
When I write a side project I'm not doing it because I enjoy coding, I'm doing it because I enjoy problem solving, and I've thought of a potential problem that I could solve with code, and I want to prototype that idea. I'm not that fussed about elegance; ideally, I want to prototype that idea as quickly as possibly so I can see if its valid or not, so I'd much rather use any tool I can to get me there as quickly as possible.
This sounds like a nightmare to me. The last thing I want out of my work day is to attend more "important meetings" and "multiply" my value. This is the kind of thinking that makes us less human, just widgets that are interchangeable. No thanks.
