Comment by falcor84
4 days ago
> Why do people enjoy going to the gym?
Do they? I would assume that the overwhelming majority of people would be very happy to be able to get 50% of the results for twice the membership cost if they could avoid going.
4 days ago
> Why do people enjoy going to the gym?
Do they? I would assume that the overwhelming majority of people would be very happy to be able to get 50% of the results for twice the membership cost if they could avoid going.
If you pay twice the membership, they provide you a forklift so you can lift twice the weight. I prefer to lift the weight myself and only spend half as much
Obviously I was referring to a hypothetical option where it's still your body that get stronger. Sticking with this metaphor - I don't care about the weights going up, but rather about my muscles getting stronger, and if there were an easier and less accident-prone way to do that without the weights, then I would take it in a heartbeat.
And going back to programming, while I sometimes enjoy the occasional problem-solving challenge, in the vast majority of time I just want the problem solved. Whenever I can delegate it to someone else capable, I do so, rather than taking it on as a personal challenge. And whenever I have sufficiently clear goals and sufficiently good tests, I delegate to AI.
I suspect you are in the vast minority. Most folks are moving weights around for the result feedback, the fitness. Similarly, a lot of engineers are writing code to get to the end result, the useable product. Not writing code to be writing code.