Comment by ChrisMarshallNY
2 months ago
That's sort of my feeling. I really enjoy coding.
What's that saying? "If you love what you do, you never work a day in your life."
I use LLMs every day, but not to write my software. I use them like really good personal assistants. They are now a standard (and invaluable) part of my daily workflow.
I'm not exactly "indie" (retired at 55, and working for free), but I can relate to a lot of what's being discussed, here.
Similar situation here. Laid off last year (at 45), can just about afford to retire to a frugal life (which I wouldn't mind at all).
But now that I am finally free to write only software that I want to bring into the world, I cannot imagine playing roulette with LLMs all day for something as mundane as productivity, giving up all the intellectual joys of the craft as well.
And the relief of not having to justify to a manager why things are taking longer than expected! It's like the giant finger that had been pressing down on me almost all my working life has finally been lifted. Sweet semi-retirement, how I love thee.
> Sweet semi-retirement, how I love thee.
I feel the same. Not having people crapping all over my work, is bliss.
I would have loved another decade of salary, but my savings were perfectly adequate for a reasonable retirement.
That's nice for you that you made enough money from your careers to not optimize your productivity, and to enjoy spending your time with code as leisure.
You two are retired or semi-retired and interested in the pleasure of coding apparently as an unpaid hobby. But I am speaking only to the utility of LLMs for business needs as an indie - the blog post is also about making a living as an indie and speaks to LLM use in terms of what they found productive. Indie in this case means independent business, not independently retired from business...
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