alt Hacker NewsOdd, I'm having the opposite experience.
The thing I really love about working with computers is when I achieve something. That's the thing that makes me figuratively, and sometimes literally, throw my fists into the air and go "Yeaaah!"
With the AI tooling, I'm getting those more like a couple times a week.
Plus, I'm using AI to attack the things in my day that are "a drag", and getting them done too.
The highs are more frequent and the lows are not so low.
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Oh, sure, I can make things with it. But I have an extraordinarily hard time saying that I made something.
It feels like it cheapens the whole thing. Maybe I'm just old, because I remember people saying the same thing about code completion in Visual Studio back in the late 90s.
This is so much more than code completion, though.
I did a deep binge on two or three projects I would never do, and like five small ones that would have consumed months.
It felt like that, kinda, for a bit. Now whenever it does something for me I get nothing. I didn’t do it… the chatbot did. What’s for me to celebrate? How can there be any real pride or satisfaction for a thing that was just handed to me because I asked for it?
If anything it diminishes my satisfaction looking back on previous projects. They’re “a few hours with a chatbot”, now.
The things I had to learn and the informed decisions I had to make? All pointless trivia, now. A child could do it.
The magic and possibilities parts just all wore off after a heavy run, and I don’t know if that’s ever coming back.