For the last 20 years or so I’ve been trying out a new way of programming, one that (surprisingly) doesn’t use any LLMs or AI coding agents at all. It’s just me, a keyboard, and an IDE or text editor, writing code line by line—literally typing things like functions and curly braces.
I realize this sounds eccentric. What am I, some kind of minimalist? Actually, I’m what you might call an “early adopter.
amusing that you think you will be left behind genuinely, while I think that my avoidance of LLM use may very well make me more skilled than you in the long run.
Yours, not mine. I’m old enough that I look forward to never touching a fucking computer ever again in my life in a few years. Sadly, I have to dive into this AI aggravation that I didn’t need to finish my career. I make the best of it until I don’t have to. And then whether my job disappears or not is a matter of total indifference to me.
amusing that you think you will be left behind genuinely, while I think that my avoidance of LLM use may very well make me more skilled than you in the long run.
Yours, not mine. I’m old enough that I look forward to never touching a fucking computer ever again in my life in a few years. Sadly, I have to dive into this AI aggravation that I didn’t need to finish my career. I make the best of it until I don’t have to. And then whether my job disappears or not is a matter of total indifference to me.
Fair point.