> If that's true, then you likely used to produce slop for code. :-(

Local models are quite good now, and can jump right in to projects I coded by hand, and add new features to them in my voice and style exactly the way I would have, and with more tests than I probably would have had time to write by hand.

Three months ago I thought this was not possible, but local models are getting shockingly good now. Even the best rust programmers I know look at output now and go "well, shit, that is how I would have written it too"

That is a hard thing to admit, but at some point one must accept reality.

> anyway, I know it's corny to say, but - you should have, and shoudl now, improve the ergonomics of your setup. Play with things like the depth of your keyboard on your desk, the height of the chair and the desk, with/without chair handrests, keyboard angle, etc.

I already type with colemak on a split keyboard with each half separated and tented 45 degrees on a saddle stool, with sit/stand desk I alternate. I have read all the research and applied all of it that I can. Without having done all that I probably would have had to change careers.

> "from scratch" can mean any number of things.

As far as I know I was the first person alive to deterministically build linux from 180 bytes of machine code, up to tinycc, to gcc, to a complete llvm native linux distribution.

When I say from scratch, I mean from scratch. Also, all of this before AI without any help from AI, but I sure do appreciate it to help with package maintenance and debugging while I am sleeping.