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Comment by voidfunc

1 day ago

I like building stuff. I don't care about the code. I convinced myself over 20 years that I liked coding to get myself through the drudgery of corporate work but the reality is the building was the important thing to me. I'm able to build things quickly with AI.

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lelanthran  1 day ago

> I like building stuff. I don't care about the code.

Sounds like you like having stuff, not building stuff.

  • SoftTalker  2 hours ago

    It's all a matter of what you have added.

    A carpenter can build a house with commercially produced dimensional lumber without having to harvest the trees, cut them into boards of standard dimensions, kiln-dry it, and transport it to the building site. We still say he "built" the house.

    At some point, though, it's fair to ask "what did I add?"

    If you are directing other people (or maybe robots, someday) to do the actual building, you can't really claim to have "built a house" even though it all happened under your direction.

    I guess bottom line for me to feel I had a real part in "building" a thing would be whether I added anything I am specifically qualified or skilled at doing, or did I do what anyone could have done?