To your first point, I think it’s just a distinction our industry hasn’t figured out yet. There are some stages in projects that some people just don’t like. Similar to how you have rough carpentry vs finish. Some like building the structure, others like the details and polish.
> Interestingly, I've noticed that a lot of the people I meet that both find coding tedious and are extremely excited by AI coding, are generally over 40.
I don't think it's the coding that they find tedious.
I think you missed the part that's not exciting. When you write your 50th webapp and start integrating auth flows once again that just work slightly differently in this new app than your older one. That's what boils the blood, not writing new business logic.
Right, I guess that's what I mean I've side-stepped so far. I don't generally work on anything web related and haven't had to repeatedly work on similar projects over and over again. I've maybe just misunderstood what most other developers actually work on in the industry.
I love coding. I’m not excited by AI coding but I am curious. I find it useful in quite limited ways.
I have recently started an Ansible project where Aider helped me get off the ground and expand a little bit. Then it made a mess out of it so some other day I’ll have to find the time to start over.
It was useful though, and I’ll use some of the bits created by the LLM to kickstart it in anger next time around.
To your first point, I think it’s just a distinction our industry hasn’t figured out yet. There are some stages in projects that some people just don’t like. Similar to how you have rough carpentry vs finish. Some like building the structure, others like the details and polish.
> Interestingly, I've noticed that a lot of the people I meet that both find coding tedious and are extremely excited by AI coding, are generally over 40.
I don't think it's the coding that they find tedious.
I think you missed the part that's not exciting. When you write your 50th webapp and start integrating auth flows once again that just work slightly differently in this new app than your older one. That's what boils the blood, not writing new business logic.
Right, I guess that's what I mean I've side-stepped so far. I don't generally work on anything web related and haven't had to repeatedly work on similar projects over and over again. I've maybe just misunderstood what most other developers actually work on in the industry.
Anecdatum, but I'm over 40 and do not find coding tedious and am not excited by AI coding per se.
Likewise.
I love coding. I’m not excited by AI coding but I am curious. I find it useful in quite limited ways.
I have recently started an Ansible project where Aider helped me get off the ground and expand a little bit. Then it made a mess out of it so some other day I’ll have to find the time to start over.
It was useful though, and I’ll use some of the bits created by the LLM to kickstart it in anger next time around.
but I also work on interesting and varied stuff, and not web front end/backend du jour garbage
Neither do I, maybe that's the real difference here and not age