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cnity | 3 months ago

Sometimes I read something on the internet and I think: finally someone has articulated something the way that I think about it. And it is very validating. And it cuts through a bunch of noise about how "oh you should be tuning and tweaking this prompt and that" and really speaks to the human experience. Thanks for this.

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all2|3 months ago

Same. After using AI for too long I get the same mental feeling as I do when scrolling endlessly on YouTube, a listless empty purposeless feeling that I find difficult to break out of without a whole night's rest.

jackdoe|3 months ago

Programming was very meditative and fulfilling experience for me, "building something" whatever it is, now I can see it slipping through my fingers.

You know the feeling of starting a new mmorpg video game? The first time you enter a new world, you dont know what to do, where to go, there is no "optimal" way to play it, there are no guides, you just try things and explore and play and have fun. Every new project I start I have this feeling.

Few years later the game is a chore, you have daily quests, guides and optimal strategies and simmulations and if you dont play what elitistjerks say you are doing it wrong.

With AI it feels the game is never new.

mentalgear|3 months ago

Maybe this is Doom-Coding (as Instagram's empty DoomScrolling).

afc|3 months ago

Wonder if you've tried spec driven development (as opposed to just prompting)?

I used to create requirement-oriented prompts and I felt something similar to what you describe. However, I've switched to generating parts of my source code from my specs in a semi-automated way and it made the process much more pleasant (and efficient, I think).

I wrote a bit about my current state here: https://alejo.ch/3hi - for my Duende project I generate 8821 lines of code (2940 of implementation, 5881 of tests) from 1553 lines in specifications.

cyanydeez|3 months ago

Some think current AI is like Excel and you just need to know the hotkeys and formulas.

Others see its mostly a slot machine that more often than not gives you almost right answers.

Knowing how the psychology of gambling machine design is maybe a big barrier between these people.