We need a new pair of words to distinguish these two mindsets. Digging deep, finding abstractions, solutions that would say more with less .. is one kind of fun. Other people want to see the magic happen by doing few keystrokes it seems, they call it fun, i call it death.

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visarga 3 hours ago | parent | next [-]

> they call it fun, i call it death.

Are you just sitting there as if dead when using AI? I find AI work exciting, always something new to discover.

	▲	jnpnj 2 hours ago \| parent [-]
		It's been a few months since gemini 3 and opus 4.5 were released and I still regularly have feelings of dread in me because I'm deprived of something (which I assume is the thrill and pride of being able to explore solution spaces in non stupid ways to find plausible answers on my own) Maybe it's the usual webdev corp job that is too focused on mainstream code and where AI is used to sell more, not find new ideas that could be exciting..

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tombert 4 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

I mean I guess it really depends on what you're interested in.

There are plenty of projects I have wanted to do that I don't because the "activation energy" is too high, and if I can get a machine to basically get past the boring crap then I can focus on the parts of the project that I think are fun.