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A Research Preview of Codex

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383 points meetpateltech | 1 comments | 16 May 25 15:02 UTC | HN request time: 0.205s | 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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1. orange_puff ◴[16 May 25 21:51 UTC] No.44010090[source]▶
I used to think this way too. Here are a few ways I've tried to re frame things that has helped.

1. When I work on side projects and use AI, sometimes I wonder "what's the point if I am just copy / pasting code? I am not learning anything" but what I have come to realize is building apps with AI assistance is the skill that I am learning, rather than writing code per se as it was a few years ago.

2. I work in high scale distributed computing, so I am still presented with ample opportunities to get very low level, which I love. I am not sure how much I care about writing code per se anymore. Working with AI still is tinkering, it has not changed that much for me. It is quite different, but the underlying fun parts are still present.