Comment by qingcharles
5 days ago
A fantastic read.
> There's a lot of talk these days about how the individual cottage programmer is on the way out.
It feels like we're actually returning to the age of the individual cottage programmer. LLMs are really a force-multiplier allowing a single dev to do what was once the work of a whole team.
> It feels like we're actually returning to the age of the individual cottage programmer.
True. I've recently been vibe-coding a number of projects that I wouldn't tackle if I had to ... what's the current expression ... "hand-code" them.