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by sashank_150910 hours ago |
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upvoteby erulabs9 hours ago|
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There are infinite problems and agents help us solve problems faster. Sure they're not coding puzzles, they're actual problems actual human beings have, but they're still problems. Id way rather help a school district track its roster properly than argue with eslint. I'd rather get a rocket to the moon than triage garbage collection quirks too.

You're certainly welcome to miss what coding was, but being rude to engineers who are trying to build businesses is just as ridiculous and entitled as this article is.

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upvoteby bah96 hours ago|
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Agent solve problems, you provide context

It's funny how people produce tons of code they can't even read and somehow feel like they "solved the problem". Do you feel like you built the shed when you hire carpenter and ask him to do it..?

And why school district need you when any highschooler can produce similar code..?

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upvoteby erulabs5 hours ago|
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because writing the code was _never_ the hard part of solving problems.
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upvoteby sashank_15099 hours ago|
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If agent did all the technical work of sending a rocket to the moon, and all that was left for me was deciding whether a rocket to the moon should be built or one to mars, which is better for our “customers” and I actually enjoyed that then I would be honest and say I was never into technology, which is completely fine, majority of humanity isn’t into it.

I don’t need to see why you feel the desperate need to larp as a technologist when you’re happy with letting an agent solve all the technical problems.

You only think it is rude because you have tied your identity to being a technologist when you are not, I’m just saying it like it is.

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upvoteby RHSeeger8 hours ago|
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> I don’t need to see why you feel the desperate need to larp as a technologist when you’re happy with letting an agent solve all the technical problems.

This is a false comparison. Agents cannot solve all the technical problems, so the entire statement falls apart.

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upvoteby bah96 hours ago|
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What techical problems agent can't solve exactly?
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upvoteby erulabs5 hours ago|
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agents are very very far from being able to send rockets to the moon just because you prompt them to.
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upvoteby Apocryphon8 hours ago|
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You’re overlooking that the point of technology- and technologists- is to ultimately serve customers. The pleasure is incidental.
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upvoteby CooCooCaCha7 hours ago|
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The point of technology is to make people’s lives better.

Out of curiosity, when you take a bite of a burger do you call it a product?

When you watch a movie do you call it content?

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upvoteby Apocryphon7 hours ago|
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What you and I are saying is synonymous. I’m simply reusing language that the post I’m responding to used. And also de-glamorizing/de-romanticizing things a bit, sure.

And given that fast food is the pinnacle of sustenance as a product and Hollywood has been content-brained since 1977, sure!

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upvoteby eric_cc5 hours ago|
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I’ve coded for 30 years. But I’ve always been motivated by outcome, imagination, intuition, & speculation. Coding was always a means to an end not the end itself. This is the funnest I’ve ever had creating software.

You can feel free to cope by inventing imaginary bad guys. But the reality is that there are a wide variety of reasons people coded by hand. And people that are different than you aren’t somehow inferior or bad.

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