| ▲ | its-kostya 3 days ago | |
While reading your comment it occured to me that people code at different abstraction levels. I do systems programming in golang and rust and I - like you - enjoy seeing my ideas come to life not so much the typing. The final result (how performant, how correct, how elegant and not complex) is in my control instead of an agent's; I enjoy having the creativity in the implementation. I can imagine other flavors of the profession working at higher abstraction layers and using more frameworks, where their result is dependant on how the framework executes. At that point, you might just want to connect all the frameworks/systems and get the feature out the door. And it is definitely a spectrum of languages, tools, frameworks that are more or less involved. The creativity in implementing (e.g an indexed array that, when it grows to large, gets reformated to a less performance hashmap) is what I imagine being lost and bring people satisfaction. Pulling that off in a clean and not in a complex way... well there is a certain reward in that. I don't have any long term proof but I also hypothesize it helps with maintainability. But I also see your point, sometimes I need a tool that does a function and I don't care to write it and giving the agent requirements and having it implemented is enough. But typically these tools are used and discarded. | ||
| ▲ | jmcodes 3 days ago | parent [-] | |
Agreed 100% and I enjoy that part too, I just don't really see how that is being taken away. The way I see it these tools allow me to use my actual brainpower mostly on those problems. Because all the rote work can now be workably augmented away, I can choose which problems to actually focus on "by hand" as it were. I'd never give those problems to an LLM to solve. I might however ask it to search the web for papers or articles or what have you that have solved similar problems and go from there. If someone is giving that up then I'd question why they're doing that.. No one is forcing them to. It's the problem solving itself that is fun, the "layer" that it's in doesn't really make a difference to me. | ||