I’m not convinced eliminating effort in places you don’t enjoy it is the right course of action. A recent example: I had to rearchitect major parts of my pipeline the other week. I find working on the pipeline very dull and not enjoyable. Since I wrote it all though, and struggled through, it was really easy for me to take it apart and reassemble it in a more efficient manner. Took maybe 30 minutes.

I couldn’t have comfortably done such a substantial refactor without suffering through the process of building it.

(And this refactor was much larger and more substantial than LLMs in their current state can do)

100% feel this. Also even if you are doing something you enjoy, your brain goes into redirection mode when you hit the hard parts.

Is the language I’m using bad? Should I rewrite this other thing? Is it my colleague’s bad? Is this codebase rotten?

I see a lot of people label this as “I’m creative, I don’t do grunt work”, “I’m good at greenfield projects”, “I’m a builder” etc.

Unfortunately, a lot of people need a sufficient mass of people who are also doing things to engage socially in the hobby. But AI is destroying that.