alt Hacker NewsThis is a very good comment, one of the best i've read here.
> I would say that "good engineers" or "good coders" found that balance in abstraction to move fast but make abstractions not overkill.
i think this is spot on and could be where the concept of "llm's have no taste" comes from. There is art (and science) in determining the right level of abstraction that satisfies the user story in a performant way while leaving the door open for extension.
> As long as what the LLM writes meets the spec, then we're happy.
going back to just meeting the spec vs the art of perfect abstraction is a bitter pill to swallow and I imagine removes a lot of the joy some found in software development.
I said this in another comment a few weeks back - but, at least for me the "joy" of software development was describing what I wanted and getting it. That used to mean fighting with code and trying to be clever and clean or following the right design pattern. But now, I get "joy" from using English to describe my problem and getting the right answer. When the LLM one-shots it, I get the feedback that I'm describing things correctly and clearly. I'm still getting the same joy just in a different form now. I'm old enough and have been doing this long enough that "giving up writing code" is not sad for me. I'm still expressing my ideas, just differently now.