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[–] 3 points 3 months ago* (3 children)

I'm not sure it's so black and white, LLMs (even frontier ones) are total spaghetti merchants if you let them anywhere near the architecture but I get zero fulfillment from manually solving merge conflicts, setting up someone's fragile idea of a config, or other tedious stuff like that.

I do dislike how many people seem to want the profession to change into being the meatshield between Claude and prod though.

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  • [–] 5 points 3 months ago (2 children)

    I get zero fulfillment from manually solving merge conflicts, setting up someone’s fragile idea of a config, or other tedious stuff like that

    For sure. And it's tedious crap like that where A.I can have a limited scope of usefullness. I WANT A.I. to handle all the boring shit so that I can get on with doing the creative side of programming. But CEO's want it exactly the other way around. Rather than A.I. being your assistant, you become its assistant, it's proof reader.

    I will happily plug a snippet of code into an AI if it's not working and I need a second set of eyes on it to see where I missed a goddamned colon. But that's as far as it ever should go. I don't want it writing code for me, but it can make a pretty good proof-reader so that I can solve an issue and get on with writing faster.

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  • [–] 2 points 3 months ago (1 child)

    Yeah it's like that recent adage isn't it: I want AI to automate all my drudgery so I can spend more time being creative, but Silicon Valley is automating all my creativity so I can spend more time doing drudgery.

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