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383 points meetpateltech | 1 comments | 16 May 25 15:02 UTC | HN request time: 0.215s | source
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skovati ◴[16 May 25 16:01 UTC] No.44007027[source]▶
I'm curious how many ICs are truly excited about these advancements in coding agents. It seems to me the general trend is we become more like PMs managing agents and reviewing PRs, all for the sake of productivity gains.

I imagine many engineers are like myself in that they got into programming because they liked tinkering and hacking and implementation details, all of which are likely to be abstracted over in this new era of prompting.

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ramoz ◴[16 May 25 16:20 UTC] No.44007237[source]▶
I see it differently. Like a kid with legos.

We had to tinker piece by piece to build a miniature castle. Over many hours.

Now I can tinker concept by concept, and build much larger castles, much faster. Like waving a wand, seeing my thoughts come to fruition in near real time.

No vanity lost in my opinion. Possibly more to be gained.

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1. nluken ◴[16 May 25 18:11 UTC] No.44008310[source]▶
I think there's a disconnect between what you and the person you're replying to are defining as "tinkering". Your conception of it seems more focused on the end product when, to use your analogy, the original comment seems unconcerned with the size of castles.

If you derive enjoyment from actually assembling the castle, you lose out on that by using the wand that makes it happen instantly. Sure wand's castles may be larger, but you don't put a Lego castle together for the finished product.