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by themanmaran 242 days ago
This is certainly something I have felt. The idea of spending a day or two debugging a small problem, coming up with the right regex, or setting up boilerplate is all gone. Now it's 30 seconds, and you're right back to the high level "what do I build next" thinking.

Which is great, and has unblocked so much productivity, but I do miss some of the grunt work. I feel like it helped spawn new ideas and gave you some time to think through implementation.
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candiddevmike 242 days ago
You don't have the epiphany that you're going down a dead end road anymore ("there has to be a better way"). Now codebases will be littered with dead end roads.
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rodolphoarruda 242 days ago
> coming up with the right regex

Yes, and this a meme I have in my mind of LLM engineers talking to each other and a balloon: "If we could just get the right regex done in a few seconds we'd win the entire global programming community."

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