Do you not see a benefit in coding for the mental exercise and challenge?

Most hobbies are impractical... Machines can produce clothes much faster than a knitter, no chess player will beat the best computers, a boat can bring more fish to port in one trip than you can in a year, etc.

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emodendroket 11 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Actually much of the work to produce your clothes is done by hand because mechanizing it makes no economic sense when you can pay someone in Bangladesh next to nothing to do it. But regarding the other point, that has put people off things too -- Lee Sedol famously quit playing go after losing to Alpha Go, because he reasoned there was really no point when no matter how good he got he'd never beat the machine.

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floro 9 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

It takes a certail level of autism to be a coder because you enjoy it. Sadly many people went into this industry for the money and are now moving on because of AI. I say good riddance because when the AI bubble inevitably bursts, coding will be just us nerds again

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M4v3R 9 hours ago | parent [-]

> good riddance because when the AI bubble inevitably bursts, coding will be just us nerds again

Not sure what you mean by AI bubble bursting, but there is no way this genie goes back into the lamp. We now have Opus 4.6 level open models already and these are newer coming away, and soon we will have Fable level open models too. So even if all the frontier labs imploded financially today the LLMs are not going away.

Coding will never be the same as before, the sooner everyone accepts this the better.

	▲	michaelhoney 8 hours ago \| parent \| next [-]
		Agree, we are not far off having open models that are superior to human coding ability. I’m sure this curve levels off sometime, but not before we’re superseded. Best to find peace with that and adapt.
	▲	oshawaconnectio 4 hours ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		Don't know why you're being downvoted, its pretty clear that you're right