I'm still writing code. I'm doing it to solve a problem, there's more to writing code than than typing. Recently AI massively simplified "getting started", and all of the tips here are applicable to working well on a team.
My recent experience: I'm porting an app to Mac. It's been in my backlog for ~2 years. With Claude I had a functional prototype in under a day getting the major behavior implemented. I spent the next two weeks refactoring the original app to share as much logic as possible. The first two days was lots of fun. The refactoring was also something I wanted to flush out unit tests, still enjoyable.
The worst part was debugging really bugs introduced to my code from 5 years ago. My functions had naming issues describing the behavior wrong, confusing Claude, that I needed to re-understand to add new features.
Parts of coding are frustrating. Using AI is frustrating for different reasons.
The most frustrating part was rebasing with git to create a sensible history (which I've had to do without AI in the past), reviewing the sheer volume of changes (14k lines) and then deciding "do I want my name on this" which involved cleaning up all the linter warnings I'd self imposed on myself.
I’m finding it to be the opposite. I used to love writing everything by hand but now Claude is giving me the ability to focus more on architecture. I like just sitting down with my coffee and thinking about the next part of my project, how I’d like it to be written and Claude just fills it in for me. It makes mistakes at times but it also finds a lot of mine that I hadn’t even realized were in my code base.
Yep, I get that some people love the act of literally typing "x = 2;" but to me coding is first and foremost problem solving. I have a problem (either truly mine or someone else's), I come up with a solution in my head and slowly implement it.
Before I also had to code it and then make sure it had no issues.
Now I can skip the coding and then just have something spit out something which I can evaluate whether I believe is a good implementation of my solution or not.
Of course, you need the skill to know good from bad but for medium to senior devs, AI is incredibly useful to get rid of the mundane task of actually writing code, while focusing on problem solving with critical review of magically generated code.
A good bit of scaffolding and babysitting allows you to let the model run much faster and more efficiently. Building your tool faster. I don't code to code, I code to build something I want.
Also there is no "compiler" and "type checker" for your SPEC. If you get something wrong in some paragraph somewhere and or contradict something in your spec X paragraphs later - you have to use Mark-1 EyeBall to detect and fix this.
You have just transformed your job from developer to manual spec maintainer - a clerk who has to painstakingly check everything.
Under the current administration it wouldn't surprise me if they decided in their last budget cutting meeting to indiscriminately erase everything with the wildcard "fact" in the project's name.
But but but it could be helpful for the next coding agent in case how to use a compiler has already fallen out of its context window! Stay positive, man./s
It's not about the commit itself but that due to it they discovered vibe coding by AMD. They object to the sending commits that have not been checked by a human dev.
The founding fathers hate this one weird trick: simply say the Constitution does not apply to private businesses and then create private businesses that violate the Constitution.
for my European eyes - founding fathers feels more of an annoyance, an extra hoop to jump through more than some sort of a holy cow (or whatever your patriotism has taught you)
The US uses the founding fathers in the way religions use God and the various holy texts: to argue pro or con any case. Indeed some seem to have elevated the 'founding fathers' (what a term anyway) to the stature of minor godhood. And you have to wonder: how horrified would those very founding fathers be if they saw the end result of their best of intentions?
Of course then those very people who will right now use the founding fathers' words in a weaponized way would find different sources of authority because they usually lack the moral framework to determine intent, instead they will go by the letter. It's like watching wikipedians arguing over some contribution that they want to wipe out because it doesn't mesh with their worldview. The endless rules lawyering is really tedious and tiresome to watch.
LLMs are a very cool and powerful tool when you've learned how to use them effectively. But most people probably didn't and thus use them in a way that they produce unsatisfying results while maximizing resource and token use.
The cause of that is the companies with the big models are actually in the token selling business, marketing their models as all around problem solvers and life improvers.
I'm pretty sure memory function is bad WHILE being baked but might improve long term when not under the influence. Maybe a rebound effect that makes the brain compensate for the CB1 receptor flooding.
You don't have to replace alcohol with anything. If its self medication you should ask yourself or an expert how to lower stress with behavior or life style change.
Apart from that a better medication would be Ketamine which is also a NMDA receptor antagonist like alcohol but not as destructive to every cell in the body. Except your bladder.
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