alt Hacker NewsCoding is dead, so do my joy of this profession. If I wanted to become full time manager - I would do it earlier
Ok, guys, it's been fun 10 years. Yes, I am silly nerd who enjoyed understand problem and create HIS OWN solution
Agentic coding is like playing chess with an engine and telling it what opening to use. I guess some do enjoy it
Honestly surprised how many people feeled relief becoming managers instead of coders. I guess we - people who enjoyed coding - always were just a loud minority
And please, don't reply to me with this nonsensical bs about "ye ye I am still owner of my code and I just scaled my knowledge". I worked with ai too much and seen too much people to believe it
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I love(d) coding. I also love leveraging LLMs to create so many projects that I otherwise would not have done.
yes coding is dead but i like having less rounds with QA and more "nice to have" juice in my projects .
i feel that what i miss the most is not the coding it self but the effort i used to put in to it. no effort no dopamine no happy.
since i got into the coding because it's a tool to solve problems, and now i have a better tool to solve the same problems, this is what im working on reclaiming, the effort part.