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Comment by webdevver

3 days ago

honestly, with LLMs, everything is fun again.

embedded dev with a billion toolchains, GPU development with each vendors bespoke API, ffmpeg with its billion parameters - if anything, you could say LLMs bailed us out of the impending ultra-specialization. without LLMs, we might be facing a world where 30% of the workforce is in software dev.

i am keeping my eyes peeled on vibe-coding PCB layouts and schematics. a lot of eyes in that direction already but its still early.

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ori_b  3 days ago

I don't get it. What part of the process do you enjoy?

Do you also enjoy hiring a taskrabbit to go hiking for you, taking photos along the way?

  • mentos  3 days ago

    I’m just looking to make pizza not smelt the ore for the oven I’m going to cook it in.

    • ori_b  3 days ago

      Why make pizza when you can order it? As far as I can tell, there's not much enjoyment of making being had.

      Enjoying having is fine too, but let's at least be honest about it.

      I enjoy looking at photos people took on hikes, but I don't call it hiking.

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  • satvikpendem  3 days ago

    Seeing the output I want when I describe it, and making changes to get to the vision in my mind. I don't have aphantasia so maybe it's different for those who do, but I can literally see the UI of the app I want to build and of course I can build it by writing code manually too, but I can make it exist much faster with an LLM than without.

acedTrex  3 days ago

> LLMs bailed us out of the impending ultra-specialization.

This is fundamentally what makes them so DAMAGING to humanity. They didn't bail us out, they robbed us of it.

groestl  3 days ago

On a meta level, seems this trajectory follows Alan Kay: first we made the complex things possible, now we make simple things simple.

necrotic_comp  3 days ago

I agree with this. I've been able to tackle projects I've been wanting to for ages with LLMs because they let me focus on abstractions first and get over the friction of starting the project.

Once I get my footing, I can use them to generate more and more specialized code and ultimately get to a place where the code is good.