Comment by aryehof
2 months ago
> what happened that made "coding" grunt work
Modern human programming has devolved to nothing more than modeling problems and systems using lines of code, procedures, sub-routines and modules, utilizing a “hack it till it works”(tm) methodology.
> utilizing a “hack it till it works”(tm) methodology.
Your post describes my coding perfectly. I don't have CS training of any type, never been formally involved in software development (recently started dabbling in OSS) and never used an LLM/agent for help (do use a local SLM for autocomplete and suggestions only).
Yet I can "code." I suspect a (pre-2023ish) software developer would likely tell me "go learn to code" if i asked for review. I don't know the formal syntax people expect to see and it has organization more typical of raging dumpster fires. Doesn't mean it's not code.