With all the AI hype in terms of software development (you can see the latest update on AI taking over software development here), I’ve found myself revisiting what it is I love about programming in the first place. For me, it’s the satisfaction of having built something (or a piece of something) that didn’t exist before, that (hopefully) solves a problem. I’m not a “code should be beautiful” kind of guy, but there’s a non-trivial amount of pride to sitting down at a text editor, typing out commands, running them, and repeating until they finally do the thing I envisioned, and then getting it out to the world. Because ultimately, it’s something that I worked on, if not did altogether. There’s just no equivalent of that from AI.
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