I won’t miss writing code. In part because I still do when I feel like it, but also because most of the time it is extremely boring. A mere mean to a goal for which you probably have the path mapped out in your brain already. It is basically just busywork at that point.
There are these moments where you need to squeeze out performance, where you change something about the UI or generally visuals and get a pleasing result, or where you discover a small tweak that collapses a lot of complexity you originally planned for - but that is, in my humble experience, not the norm in programming. The vast majority of code is boilerplate or stuff you have already written a thousand times in some variation. The more experience you have the worse it gets.
I was ecstatic when I realized how good agents have gotten, realized how I could focus on design and architecture and with small corrections, get more than adequate software. Because for me personally, programming is the least fun part of software development. Most of the time that is. And you can hate it all you want, but programming is a skill worth nothing on its own now, and it will never be again. You can take solice in the fact that you can still do it for fun if you want to.
idk, code was always written only once, but it will always be read many times. Writing code with LLM centric way and just focusing the high level gets hazardous pretty quickly, since somebody actually needs to understand the codebase deep down (or at least the relevant part) when something goes wrong. When you have 100k+ line codebase with multiple contributors with LLM it can very quickly turn into a black box, which nobody understand anything deep down anymore and everybody are more and more incentivized to use LLMs to interact with the thing to get anything real done. Then it’s couple hallucinations away from turning into a fragile mess, where things break unexpected and nobody knows why.
I won’t miss writing code. In part because I still do when I feel like it, but also because most of the time it is extremely boring. A mere mean to a goal for which you probably have the path mapped out in your brain already. It is basically just busywork at that point.
There are these moments where you need to squeeze out performance, where you change something about the UI or generally visuals and get a pleasing result, or where you discover a small tweak that collapses a lot of complexity you originally planned for - but that is, in my humble experience, not the norm in programming. The vast majority of code is boilerplate or stuff you have already written a thousand times in some variation. The more experience you have the worse it gets.
I was ecstatic when I realized how good agents have gotten, realized how I could focus on design and architecture and with small corrections, get more than adequate software. Because for me personally, programming is the least fun part of software development. Most of the time that is. And you can hate it all you want, but programming is a skill worth nothing on its own now, and it will never be again. You can take solice in the fact that you can still do it for fun if you want to.
idk, code was always written only once, but it will always be read many times. Writing code with LLM centric way and just focusing the high level gets hazardous pretty quickly, since somebody actually needs to understand the codebase deep down (or at least the relevant part) when something goes wrong. When you have 100k+ line codebase with multiple contributors with LLM it can very quickly turn into a black box, which nobody understand anything deep down anymore and everybody are more and more incentivized to use LLMs to interact with the thing to get anything real done. Then it’s couple hallucinations away from turning into a fragile mess, where things break unexpected and nobody knows why.
Programming on its own was never what got you paid.