Yeah I’m not a fan of slop merchants and PRs the size of battleships but anyone solving merge conflicts by hand because they hate LLMs is being a tad masochistic in my opinion. I’m in two minds about how much coding itself ought to be automated, but I’m a strong advocate of automating the tedious donkey work we’d absolutely have got rid of years ago some other way if possible.
It’s also good for avoiding tarpits, sometimes I literally don’t want to learn something because it’s too expensive relative to the value of retaining it. I would rather crawl over a mile of broken glass and hot coals than learn the detailed ins and outs of WSDL just to support a legacy feature which is firmly in the crosshairs of my deprecation gun, to use a totally neutral and not driven by personal bitterness example.
Yeah I’m not a fan of slop merchants and PRs the size of battleships but anyone solving merge conflicts by hand because they hate LLMs is being a tad masochistic in my opinion. I’m in two minds about how much coding itself ought to be automated, but I’m a strong advocate of automating the tedious donkey work we’d absolutely have got rid of years ago some other way if possible.
It’s also good for avoiding tarpits, sometimes I literally don’t want to learn something because it’s too expensive relative to the value of retaining it. I would rather crawl over a mile of broken glass and hot coals than learn the detailed ins and outs of WSDL just to support a legacy feature which is firmly in the crosshairs of my deprecation gun, to use a totally neutral and not driven by personal bitterness example.