This is just elitism. Its guaranteed to be faster to copy and paste your snippet into an app, and have the app automatically detect the transformation you want to apply.
Sure. I'm the elitist, the coder who can't keep his job for longer than 2 years because he doesn't have any soft skill.
At the moment I am literally considering quitting (my second job), working at a phone repair shop instead of programming, exactly because people at work prefer your kind of coders than enthusiasts like me.
Thank you for convincing me. I will become a phone repair technician instead. Have fun with your amazing programming career. You will do great. (This is the sarcastaball moment for me. Seriously I'm not even being sarcastic. You will do great)
> guaranteed to be faster
That's good for you. I still prefer to just write `pbpaste | base64 -d` into my terminal.
Sorry for wanting to solve problems in a different way
(Edit: @chrisan I am soft-banned from replying to you. The reply button is gone. Yes I know I should be open to new options. But I have suffered silently for years and everyone only hated me for my own ideas. So you have to excuse me when the flood gate opens. None of these have anything to do with you. I wish I could have said it back then to the people who actually shunned me)
(Edit: @HN, just delete my account. I am done with programming career. I will change the password shortly and never log back in)
If anything I'm concerned about future developers.
If we don't understand how things work under the hood, and future generations are discouraged even more from understanding them,
And if AIs can program and code for us,
Eventually one day we will forget how to program, how to fix low level coding errors, and how to fix a broken Linux kernel.
What happens then?
Yes it sounds like the slippery slope fallacy. But we have been slipping towards this direction for too long, even before AIs became a thing.
Maybe just step back and take a break, don't be so hard lined in your judgements.
I have no worry about future developers. There have been more contributions to linux in recent years than the early years. Programming has also gotten way more accessible to people. When I was a kid you might know 1 other kid who fooled around with basic on atari, now practically all my friends kids have had some exposure to programming. There are all kinds of hardware projects too and a whole community of makers that is blowing up
New deep dive tinkerers will always be around as you can't kill curiosity.
Hope you find some peace and people you enjoy working with - even if they have different opinions on how to do their job.