[adityaathalye]

Not at all, I'm all about tangents. The blog post itself is a tangent.

Programming is writing for me. So, yes I am the same... I need to type (or sometimes write it longhand), to make progress.

I gave LLMs a fair shake, but generative mode usage overwhelms my nervous system. I could use 'em, maybe, for pattern-recognition. But using an expressive language (Clojure) means I can eyeball my source code and/or grep through it to maintain a good enough view of my system. This also applies to most third-party code I use from the Clojure ecosystem. Libraries tend to be small (a few thousand lines of code), and I can skim-read through them quick enough.

I know there is a black art to it that one is supposed to learn, in order to get useful results, but so far, the incentive isn't strong enough for me.

So, hand typing / writing it is... might as well feel satisfied using my nice keyboard and little notebook, on my way to obsolescence. No?