| > I got into programming because I like programming, not because I like asking others to write code on my behalf and review what they come up with oh finally someone else who didn't enter programming because, as 7-10 year old child, they were into SOLVING PRACTICAL PROBLEMS FOR PEOPLE. > But the last fucking thing I want to do is delegate all the code writing to someone or something else Thank God there is at least one other person that understands that the ratio between creative and reactive work is crucial for wellbeing at the job. For crying out loud. > but if I ever get to the point that I feel like I spend my entire day in virtual meetings with AI agents, then I'm changing careers so am I. > but at least I guess I got a couple of good decades out of it Thanks for this perspective. Yes, at least we've got our memories, and the code locations and commits we recall from memory, from a distance of 10 or more years. >. If this is what the job turns into, I'll have to find something else to do with my remaining years Me too. |
Some of my fondest childhood memories are sitting in my school's resource center in front of a TRS-80, laboriously typing in some mimeographed BASIC code while wondering, "Is this the most efficient way I can increase shareholder value for the corporation?"