It’s 2026, so I am legally obligated to write a blog post about AI.
“I am a programmer. Just like I’m a father and a husband and a son and a friend. It’s not something I do, it’s something that is fundamental to the core of my being. Like overly dramatic phrasing.”
@gknauss I think you're getting in your own head a little too much. Sure you can bang out some work with an LLM that's basically a copy of someone else's code, but you could've already found a roughly similar project on the web 9 times out of 10 and then cloned and repurposed it. The big distinction there is that you may have had to read that code to make the 20 edits needed rather than letting the LLM burn tokens to interactively make 20 edits.
Being a professional programmer was, for a LOT of people, already a systems integration job half the time.
I'm not worried too much because I was already trying to write code as if I shouldn't have to solve problems that have already been solved; I research what's available, I find the right solutions, I liberally copy good ideas, and I try to limit invention to just stuff that needs to be implemented from scratch.
@DannoHung I think what’s changed in the past few months is that you don’t even need to stick the bits together anymore. A few sentences and Claude Code will produce something that not only uses all the proper APIs and libraries, but will LEGO them into a full running environment. Forget carving up a piece of wood, you don’t even need to figure out where the jigsaw pieces go.
It may not be elegant or graceful, but I’m guessing that most businesss will decide it’s good enough.
Greg Knauss
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