Agreed. Whenever I hear about LLMs automating "boilerplate" I ask "Why didn't you abstract that away before LLMs existed?"
replyI kept saying that about heavy design patterns and unergonomic OO programming languages that end up requiring code generators (you know exactly what programming languages I'm saying). I kept hearing rejection after rejection, and angry words.
replyPeople don't like abstracting, or just don't understand abstractions, often just mistaking it for indirections. The few that understand it just take the message, apply it and go away to live their lives with improved coding.
> It only gets worse the further away you get from the most popular idioms that have already been written.
replyThis explains my experience. It gives me good info about what other people do but doesn’t help me solve unique problems.