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Comment by vunderba

7 days ago

I've definitely heard people semi-seriously refer to the old way as "artisanal coding".

That's actually a pretty reasonable description I think. I mean, in the semi-serious way. But I was just talking to some colleagues of mine about how one can get attached to or invested in code that they hand wrote, even though that code wasn't really solving a problem that was "worth" that level of attachment. And AI assisted code generation changes the dynamic for code that fits in that category for me, and it just so happens to be a lot of the code people write for work fit into that. You only really need to be "artisinal" about the code that "really matters".

Just wait until there are artisinal software shops in Brooklyn staffed by an even higher density of bros with signature mustaches and weird side hobbies.