alt Hacker NewsRemember when programming was fun?
To me, after the novelty of seeing a computer program execute (more or less) what I ask in plain English wears off, what’s left is the chore of managing a bunch of annoying bots.
I don’t know yet if we’re more productive or not, if the resulting code is as good. But the craft in itself is completely different, much more akin to product managing, psychology, which I never enjoyed as much.
Replies
> I can imagine a future in which some or even most software is developed by witches, who construct elaborate summoning environments, repeat special incantations (“ALWAYS run the tests!”), and invoke LLM daemons who write software on their behalf. These daemons may be fickle, sometimes destroying one’s computer or introducing security bugs, but the witches may develop an entire body of folk knowledge around prompting them effectively—the fabled “prompt engineering”. Skills files are spellbooks.
https://aphyr.com/posts/418-the-future-of-everything-is-lies...
It's micromanaging an idiot savant. Except the fun part of management, the reward for a job well done, is seeing the personal growth of the managee.
In this case, there's no person to grow. It's an overly talkative calculator.
I never expected to see this number of engineers aspiring to emulate Dilbert's pointy haired boss.