alt Hacker NewsSpeak for yourself. I don't miss writing code at all. Agentic engineering is much more fun.
And this surprises me, because I used to love writing code. Back in my early days I can remember thinking "I can't believe I get paid for this". But now that I'm here I have no desire to go back.
I, for one, welcome our new LLM overlords!
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wesammikhail • yesterday at 7:26 PM
Speak for yourself. If you find the agentic workflow to be more fun, more power to you.
I for one think writing code is the rewarding part. You get to think through a problem and figure out why decision A is better than B. Learning about various domains and solving difficult problems is in itself a reward.
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popopopopoopop • yesterday at 7:44 PM
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I had that same epiphany when I discovered AI is great at writing complicated shell command lines for me. I had a bit of an identity crisis right there because I thought I was an aspiring Unixhead neckbeard but in truth I hated the process. Especially the scavenger hunt of finding stuff in man pages.