alt Hacker NewsI think you are confusing machines with motors. Many machines do things that simply are not possible without. A bicycle, for example, is not at any less work than walking, but it enables you to go faster than you can run. Menually operated sewing machines produce stitches that would be infeasible by hand.
Motorising any of those machines could be considered lazy, though.
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deepsummer • today at 9:00 AM
But you could still arrive if you walk instead of using the bicycle. And I am sure you can do the same stitches by hand, it just takes forever.
Same with coding agents. I could do it by hand. It just would take much longer. Often so long that it would be impractical.
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raincole • today at 8:42 AM
> A bicycle, for example, is not at any less work than walking
What? Have you, uh, ridden a bicycle before...?
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> A bicycle, for example, is not at any less work than walking
Of course it is, at equivalent distance.