Comment by rednafi

I never found the act of coding something profound. LLMs are just tools, like sed, awk, or xargs, albeit with more range.

So no, I don’t miss the days of dealing with some douchebag on Stack Overflow or some neckbeard on a random subreddit telling me to pick up different career. They can now die in peace with their “hard-earned KnOwleDgE.”

Fiddling with directory structures or bike shedding over linter configs never felt artistic to me. It just felt like getting overly poetic about doing bullshit. LLMs and agents are amazing at doing these grunt work.

I get that some folks see the hand of God in their dotfiles or get high off Lisp’s homoiconicity, but most folks don’t relate to that. I just wanna do my build stuff and have fun with the results—not get romantic about the grind. I’m glad LLMs made all my man page knowledge useless if it means I can do more in less time and spend that time on things I actually enjoy.