[platevoltage]

I definitely hear you on this. I, like most people my age came into coding when it was mostly high level (Javascript, python, etc), yet I watch YouTube videos about things like NES programming using 6502 assembly. Part of me yearns for a time I didn't get to experience where we were closer to the hardware. Screaming at an LLM for giving me outdated methods to a library I'm trying to implement isn't in my ideal workday.

So far, the AI revolution has only given me more work. People have come at me with applications that are 80% done (really more like 50%) that they "vibe coded" and need an actual programmer to finish. These apps would most likely just be a spark in someone's imagination pre-AI.

In a way, this is a positive. I can't say it's been more fun though.