alt Hacker News> I think there is a section of programmer who actually do like the actual typing of letters, numbers and special characters into a computer, and for them, I understand LLMs remove the fun part.
Exactly me.
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Conversely I have very little interest in the process of programming by itself, all the magic is about the end result and the business value for me (which fortunately has served me quite well professionally). As young as I remember I was fascinated with the GUI DBMS (4th Dimension/FileMaker/MS Access/…) my dad used to improve his small business. I only got into programming only to not be limited by graphical tools. So LLMs for me are just a nice addition in my toolbox, like a power tool is to a manual one. It doesn’t philosophically changes anything.
That's because physical programming ing is a ritual.
I'm not entirely sure what that means myself, so please speak up if my statement resonates with you.
Same. However, for me the fun in programming was always a kind of trap that kept me from doing more challenging things.
Now the fun is gone, maybe I can do more important work.
Same for me, sadly.
One of the reasons why I learned vim was because I enjoy staying in the keyboard; I'm a fast typer and part of the fun is typing out the code I'm thinking.
I can see how some folks only really like seeing the final product rather than the process of building it but I'm just not cut for that — I hate entrepreneurship for the same reason, I enjoy the building part more than the end.
And it's the part that's killing me with all this hype.