Comment by bubblyworld

I agree, agents have really made programming fun for me again (and I say this as someone who has been coding for more two decades - I'm not a script kiddy using them to make up for lack of skill).

Configuring tools, mindless refactors, boilerplate, basic unit/property testing, all that routine stuff is a thing of the past for me now. It used to be a serious blocker for me with my personal projects! Getting bored before I got anywhere interesting. Much of the time I can stick to writing the fun/critical code now and glue everything else together with LLMs, which is awesome.

Some people obviously like the fiddly stuff though, and more power to them, it's just not for me.