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by misja111 15 days ago
Lol, I have 42 years of experience in coding, of which 29 paid. I learned to program when I was 14 years old, studied computer science and went to work in IT. I'm 56 years old now and working as a tech lead.

> Being a craftsman is a deeply human desire that AI is destroying, not sure if this is a fun future to look forward to.

AI is giving me back the feeling I had when I first learned to program, when I was 14. At 14, I suddenly had a tool in my hands that was like an extension of my imagination. I could create tools, games and what not with it, this is what I loved. AI is that same tool on steroids. If what you like is creating things, AI lets you do it at 10 times the speed.

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> If what you like is creating things, AI lets you do it at 10 times the speed.

I’ve heard some version of this take many times, all I can say is that is not what being a craftsman is. Ands that’s fine I suppose for some people and not fine for others.

The best analogy is think of a musician. As he gets better, he learns to play better tunes, and develop better tunes. Now in the future (not too distant), let us say he just needs to prompt an LLM and say make this melody a bit longer, a lower pitch etc, he is effectively making music but it is no longer the same process, and I think the joy is gone for a majority of the people, though I’m sure some exceptions will exist who prefer just prompting an AI to generate music.