>The most productive individuals were already doing that before

Okay, maybe. So I am not a productive individual but now I also have all these "never bother releasing" projects because what was previously too much work is now 10 minutes of telegram messaging.

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vconnor 14 hours ago | parent [-]

How do you feel after putting 10 minutes of thumb dance into them now? Do you feel your programming skills have improved? Does your heart soar?

Accomplishment is proportional to effort. Skill building is proportional to complexity. All you have done is crossed an arbitrary item off a todo list.

	▲	ImaCake 10 hours ago \| parent [-]
		It's quite fun actually. I like how the effort is in the design and thinking about what I actually want rather than on the barely relevant scripting (e.g. I know what I want when I ask for a linear model, but it's a faff to remember how to implement an lm in python when I only know the R syntax). Sometimes a PoC from an LLM is a great way to go "oh that idea sucked actually" or "oh I thought I wanted this but I really want to try this instead...". Getting to actually test my ideas instead of having them locked away because I have more pressing things to do is great.