Speak for yourself. I don't miss writing code at all. Agentic engineering is much more fun.

And this surprises me, because I used to love writing code. Back in my early days I can remember thinking "I can't believe I get paid for this". But now that I'm here I have no desire to go back.

I, for one, welcome our new LLM overlords!

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foobarian 4 hours ago | parent | next [-]

I had that same epiphany when I discovered AI is great at writing complicated shell command lines for me. I had a bit of an identity crisis right there because I thought I was an aspiring Unixhead neckbeard but in truth I hated the process. Especially the scavenger hunt of finding stuff in man pages.

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wesammikhail 4 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Speak for yourself. If you find the agentic workflow to be more fun, more power to you.

I for one think writing code is the rewarding part. You get to think through a problem and figure out why decision A is better than B. Learning about various domains and solving difficult problems is in itself a reward.

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dragonelite 4 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Same here i'm a decade plus in this field, writing code was by far the number 1 and the discussion surrounding system design was a far second. Take away the coding i don't think i will make it to retirement being a code/llm PR auditor for work. So i'am already planning on exiting the field in the next decade.

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nojito 4 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

>You get to think through a problem and figure out why decision A is better than B. Learning about various domains and solving difficult problems is in itself a reward.

So just tell the LLM about what you're thinking about.

Why do you need to type out a for loop for the millionth time?

	▲	zeroonetwothree 3 hours ago \| parent [-]
		(a) it's relaxing and pleasing to do something like typing out a for loop. The repetition with minor variation stimulates our brains just the right amount. Same reason why people like activities like gardening, cooking, working on cars, Legos, and so on. (b) it allows you to have some time to think about what you're doing. The "easy" part of coding gives you a bit of breathing room to plan out the next "hard" section.

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popopopopoopop 4 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

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