Comment by newswasboring
2 days ago
> Someone already operating at the very limit of their abilities doing stuff that is for them high complexity, high cognitive load, detail intense, and tactically non-obvious?
How much of the code you write is actually like this? I work in the domain of data modeling, for me once the math is worked out majority of the code is "trivial". The kind of code you are talking about is maybe 20% of my time. Honestly, also the most enjoyable 20%. I will be very happy if that is all I would work on while rest of it done by AI.
Creatively thinking about what a client needs, how the architecture for that would be like, general systems thinking, UX etc. and seeing that come to live in a clean, maintainable way, that's what lights up my eyes. The minutiae of code implementation, not so much, that's just an implementation detail, a hurdle to overcome. The current crop of tooling helps with that tremendously, and for someone like me, it's been a wonderful time, a golden era. To the people who like to handcraft every line of code to perfection, people who derive their joy from that, I think they benefit a lot less.