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94 points Eatcats | 1 comments | | HN request time: 0s | 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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omgwalt ◴[] No.44520077[source]
First, I get it.

Second, you can look at it differently.

AI is going to do most of the coding in a very short time. That's a fact. The opportunities are going to come to those who know how to prompt the AI and hold it accountable.

So yes, you're no longer going to be the hero for the code you type out.

But you CAN be the hero for being the Senior Developer or Project Manager who know what needs to be done and knows how to get the AI to do it right the first time.

I actually got out of coding a number of years ago because I was tired of keeping up with the latest changes in languages, standards, best practices, etc.

When AI became a thing over the past couple of years, I decided to try again ... and I'm actually enjoying it a whole lot more. I make a lot more progress a lot faster, which means I get to see faster results.

You can't control the direction that coding is going. It will go where it goes. But you can control how you think and feel about it. So what choice will you make?

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1. jackmenotti ◴[] No.44521159[source]
> AI is going to do most of the coding in a very short time. That's a fact.

That's not a fact it's a fact only on HN