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“The reason that tech generally — and coders in particular — see L.L.M.s differently than everyone else is that in the creative disciplines, L.L.M.s take away the most soulful human parts of the work and leave the drudgery to you,” (Anil) Dash says. “And in coding, L.L.M.s take away the drudgery and leave the human, soulful parts to you.”

The best explanation yet why, in my personal experience, most people who do a lot of programming and are well aware of the politics, actually like coding tools.

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/12/magazine/ai-coding-programming-jobs-claude-chatgpt.html?unlocked_article_code=1.UFA.GzQa.iwwv6uVoSxmm&smid=url-share

Coding After Coders: The End of Computer Programming as We Know It

In the era of A.I. agents, many Silicon Valley programmers are now barely programming. Instead, what they’re doing is deeply, deeply weird.

The New York Times

Jessica 2d ago

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Sebastian

@festal It's fascinating to see how the different frames are created. Thanks for sharing.
Just yesterday I read this post by @sophie on her wonderful blog, where she explains her opposing viewpoint regarding programming.
https://localghost.dev/blog/stop-generating-start-thinking/

Stop generating, start thinking - localghost

Instead of wanting to learn and improve as humans, and build better software, we’ve outsourced our mistakes to an unthinking algorithm.

localghost

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Lazy B0y 2d ago

@sherold

i dont think everyone can just quickly code anything in the same time you set up proper agent config and prompting

it might be for some tasks and persons e.g. for stuff where this person is particularly good at and experienced and knows all the APIs they need to use in their head.

but also definitely: when a dev is extremely inexperienced, incapable of checking the agents results, that they better learn the basics first

but theres a lot in between…

@festal @sophie

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Sebastian 2d ago

I totally get your point, @lazyb0y. It’s useful as a starting point for beginners or as a reference for experienced software developers, but not for building a complete project that no one can make sense of anymore. I especially like this quote from Sophie’s article:

“So if we're not thinking and they're not thinking that means nobody is thinking. Nothing good can come from software nobody has thought about.”
That sums it up nicely.

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Lazy B0y 2d ago

@sherold
i agree to the last paragraph!

and admit i pulled out a single statement there…

but i don’t find using a code generator a bad idea - because i don’t particularly love typing itself, or searching through API docs and remembering exact details of all parameters of all functions of an API.

And yeah the goal must be that the generated code is readable and maintainable. Which is also something i cant say about the majority of code i saw in 30 years of working in the area ;)