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I sympathize with this take but I think it’s conflating programming as a hobby vs code needed to run a business. I always believed that programming was solving
by pixelatedindex 27d ago
I sympathize with this take but I think it’s conflating programming as a hobby vs code needed to run a business.
I always believed that programming was solving problems and building things. With AI, you can still solve problems - the better your questions/ prompts the faster you get to your answer. To ask those questions you need to probably have that meditative thinking to grasp the crux of what you’re trying to solve.
On the business side, paying a programmer for their meditative time would be the first line item to cut, when you can bark orders at an idiot savant instead.
- dotancohen 27d agoWhen a business pays me to develop software, that's a lot more than coding. Sometimes it takes weeks to just translate the business needs into a plan, budget, and timeline (not that I ever meet it). Often that includes documentation, training, infra, and a maintenance contract (hopefully with retainer). The coding really is such a small part of that process.
- pixelatedindex 27d agoAbsolutely. And honestly, I don't think AI can really replace that. It can execute a plan, but it can't really figure out the best plan from a sea of unknowns strewn within people's minds. There's a certain meditative aspect to this stream of work still, but I would hesitate to call it "programming".