Pet projects are getting too big to pet(nnehdi.me) |
Pet projects are getting too big to pet(nnehdi.me) |
> It’s less coding than it used to be, or a different kind of coding. More describing and steering and deciding, less typing the actual lines.
Lots of us are still coding. A lot of the beloved infrastructure all these vibe-coded rocket rides are built with is still being hand coded by humans who care and want to build solid, good things.
But I also disagree with your claim saying agentic coding is nay less of care or less engineering.
I have 13 years of industry experience and was doing hand coding with vim. But I adapted agentic coding which I believe is very empowering
Even back to the mid-90's I've always approached projects like this -- soup to nuts, all the way from idea to conception to creative ideation to implementation to digital life!
I also used to assume everybody did lol, until I worked long enough professionally to watch the landscape subdivide like a fractal into what we have now.
There's a LOT of bad shit to be said about AI coding, but I also have this feeling that something about it all is rekindling that ancient one-man-band approach that can actually work if you're able to play all the instruments. Really interested to see what comes of it once the breathless hype dies down a little bit.
I’ve been thinking the same thing. AI makes it possible for us to be generalists again. One person, or a small team of generalists, can create and build things in a more human way, with everyone putting a piece of their soul into it.
It lets us be more involved, have more impact, and not just be one tiny cog in a huge machine, working on a small piece you can barely identify with in the bigger picture.
Like an LLM listening to you curse at software, fixing it/creating extensions etc., installing them, and you're not even aware.
You explored agentic coding, didn't like losing control to vibes, so stop doing it.
The beauty of pet projects is that they are yours to define, you set the terms, if you dont like how agentic coding played out then just dont do it?
You're not under pressure to ship, youre not being forced by a manager, this is yours : so own it. The only "pressure" you are under is the pressure in your mind that youre getting from sitting on social media drinking hype juice all day, the lesson here is the motto of the royal society - Nullis in verba- THINK FOR YOURSELF
Absolute trash.
Please can we have a filter to keep the AI slop - and all the metaslop around it, articles about the guts of LLMs - off the feed?
I use AI everywhere in my workflow and I spend quite a few hour writing and creating the arts.
IMO -- and apparently the opinion of others -- adding an AI-generated picture every single paragraph in your article in which the primary purpose is to, presumably, discuss a topic rather than show off your AI-generated art, is in extremely poor taste. It's distracting, it makes it hard to focus on the text, and to be perfectly blunt, nobody is impressed by your ability to create pictures by AI.
Why is it supposed to be good?
just because you don't know how to swim doesn't mean people can't swim.