mystic-macaroni

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  • I have a little more hope for future generations. Regardless of if you are primarily using ai to speed up a traditional work flow or vibe coding, there still are more and less effective ways to get things done. I’ve found if I write sonething I’m familiar with like bash or Python, I “know enough” to write functions and refactor incrementally. It’s a methodical process which produces code better than I can write by myself in less time.

    Compare that to when I write Lisp. There it’s more or less throw shit at the wall until I somewhat get what I want. It takes longer and can be next to impossible to extend or effectively refactor.

    Based on that observation of myself, I think we’ll find two (and probably more) kinds of programmers in the future. Ones who use it as an assistant to speed up a traditional workflow, and those who produce the slop that we are afraid of.

    Perhaps to give us any amount of additional hope/comparison to now. There still have been people who have programmed now who create slop. And that comes to the way we use references like stack exchange or the Arch Wiki. Are you copy and pasting while learning what things mean and learning in the process? Or are you just stringing things together to get results at all? I don’t think we would argue those references made all of us worse.

    So I think it’s an apt concern, but we’ll have to wait to see what it’s like whole sale. I was a doubter for a long time, but I’ve come to understand where Torvalds et al are coming from.