[josephg]

Because its fun. And because your experience using a tool is fundamentally different if you made it yourself, compared to if its something someone else made for you.

I don't think I can explain the difference, but it feels really different. Even if you used claude.

[blks]

It never felt fun for me to write software fully with LLMs. It feels disorientating, it produces a lot of code that you have no familiarity with and no authorship. It feels like you’re a teenager again, copy pasting code from internet or journal and hoping it will work.

[cestith]

I promise you some professional developers mostly get better at figuring out what to copy before pasting. Those folks are going to be fine with having no authorship over the majority of the code they put into their applications. For others, there’s a tension between wanting to write and understand the code on one hand and wanting to be a product manager over the application and delegate some control to the LLM.