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94 points Eatcats | 2 comments | | HN request time: 0.001s | source

Small confession

I’ve been using Windsurf editor for about six months now, and it does most of the coding work for me.

Recently, I realized I no longer enjoy programming. It feels like I’m just going through the pain of explaining to the LLM what I want, then sitting and waiting for it to finish. If it fails, I just switch to another model—and usually, one of them gets the job done.

At this point, I’ve even stopped reviewing the exact code changes. I just keep pushing forward until the task is done.

On the bright side, I’ve gotten much better at writing design documents.

Anyone else feel the same?

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drdrek ◴[] No.44499520[source]
Technology is about efficiency, and for people to adopt it you need to be 10x more efficient. LLMs took a 15 years process of burning out, and shortened it to 1.5 years.
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1. kamaal ◴[] No.44505928[source]
A lot of this reads like how my Dad reacted to Mobile phones and the internet.

Everything is so fast, no body gets an opportunity to do things slowly and better.

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2. ternaryoperator ◴[] No.44513988[source]
Cal Newport's book Deep Work gives excellent insights on how to break out of this pressure.