Comment by tptacek
1 day ago
Why does it matter that you're doing the thinking? Isn't that good news? What we're not doing any more is any the rote recitation that takes up most of the day when building stuff.
1 day ago
Why does it matter that you're doing the thinking? Isn't that good news? What we're not doing any more is any the rote recitation that takes up most of the day when building stuff.
I think "AI as a dumb agent for speeding up code editing" is kind of a different angle and not the one I wrote the article to address.
But, if it's editing that's taking most of your time, what part of your workflow are you spending the most time in? If you're typing at 60WPM for an hour then that's over 300 lines of code in an hour without any copy and paste which is pretty solid output if it's all correct.
But that’s just it: 300 good lines of reasonably complex working code in an hour vs o4-mini can churn out 600 lines of perfectly compilable code in less than 2 minutes, including the time it takes me to assemble the context with a tool such as repomix (run locally) or pulling markdown docs with Jina Reader.
The reality is, we humans just moved one level up the chain. We will continue to move up until there isn’t anywhere for us to go.
> perfectly compilable code
Isn't that the bare minimum attribute of working code? If something is not compilable, it is WIP. The difficulty is having correct code, then efficiently enough code.
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