alt Hacker NewsI would like to hijack the "high level language" term to mean dopamine hits from using an LLM.
"Generate a Frontend End for me now please so I don't need to think"
LLM starts outputting tokens
Dopamine hit to the brain as I get my reward without having to run npm and figure out what packages to use
Then out of a shadowy alleyway a man in a trenchcoat approaches
"Pssssttt, all the suckers are using that tool, come try some Opus 4.6"
"How much?"
"Oh that'll be $200.... and your muscle memory for running maven commands"
"Shut up and take my money"
----- 5 months later, washed up and disconnected from cloud LLMs ------
"Anyone got any spare tokens I could use?"
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aka a mind virus
I can't tell if your general premise is serious or not, but in case it is: I get zero dopamine hits from using these tools.
My dopamine rush comes from solving a problem, learning something new, producing a particularly elegant and performant piece of code, etc. There's an aspect of hubris involved, to be sure.
Using a tool to produce the end result gives me no such satisfaction. It's akin to outsourcing my work to someone who can do it faster than me. If anything, I get cortisol hits when the tool doesn't follow my directions and produces garbage output, which I have to troubleshoot and fix myself.
If you're disconnected from cloud LLM's you've got bigger problems than coding can solve lol
> and your muscle memory for running maven commands
Here's $1000. Please do that. Don't bother with the LLM.