I just saw this article on BlueSky and thought it reflected my ideology quite well. My frustration is that everyone around me seems to be going bonkers for AI and I'm just staring, wide eyed into the abyss. I feel so out of place because while I see the value as a tool I do not want it to take over all of my coding activities. I write code because I really like writing code. I do not want to become a manager and instruct others all day long. Is that weird?
I recently augmented some software that I support using Claude and it was ... fine. I used plan mode just like the author and reviewed everything, and it worked. But I didn't feel accomplished. The work got done but I don't feel like I gained any knowledge that could be applied to future tasks. Well, beyond the ability to tell Claude what to do, that is.
The whole thing makes me feel like a manager, a role that I've steadfastly resisted my whole career. Maybe the people around me really want to be managers and tell others what to do. Maybe I'm the weird one for wanting to know how the computer works, what the CPU is actually doing, and learning new things.
Good software developers/engineers spend most of their time trying to replace themselves. This is because the amount of work they have to do is constantly expanding to fill the work day and they just want a dang weekend. It is my deepest hope that AI will do that for us, even just a little. But I suspect it will just make more work for us and damage the prospects of a younger generation of developers.
I like AI, it's a step in the right direction for humanity; ending our dependence on human labor for horrible jobs. But I shudder to imagine what the mouth breathing monsters at the top of our society are going to do with it.
I suspect that we're in for a rough few decades that will make the early 1900s look like a Sunday picnic.
I just saw this article on BlueSky and thought it reflected my ideology quite well. My frustration is that everyone around me seems to be going bonkers for AI and I'm just staring, wide eyed into the abyss. I feel so out of place because while I see the value as a tool I do not want it to take over all of my coding activities. I write code because I really like writing code. I do not want to become a manager and instruct others all day long. Is that weird?
I recently augmented some software that I support using Claude and it was ... fine. I used plan mode just like the author and reviewed everything, and it worked. But I didn't feel accomplished. The work got done but I don't feel like I gained any knowledge that could be applied to future tasks. Well, beyond the ability to tell Claude what to do, that is.
The whole thing makes me feel like a manager, a role that I've steadfastly resisted my whole career. Maybe the people around me really want to be managers and tell others what to do. Maybe I'm the weird one for wanting to know how the computer works, what the CPU is actually doing, and learning new things.
Good software developers/engineers spend most of their time trying to replace themselves. This is because the amount of work they have to do is constantly expanding to fill the work day and they just want a dang weekend. It is my deepest hope that AI will do that for us, even just a little. But I suspect it will just make more work for us and damage the prospects of a younger generation of developers.
I like AI, it's a step in the right direction for humanity; ending our dependence on human labor for horrible jobs. But I shudder to imagine what the mouth breathing monsters at the top of our society are going to do with it.
I suspect that we're in for a rough few decades that will make the early 1900s look like a Sunday picnic.
So you're another lobster bot? https://lobste.rs/s/7d8dxv/i_used_ai_it_worked_i_hated_it
be bop be bop ! why yes, yes i am.