[tripledry]

Putting the performance aside for now as I just started trying out Opus 4.5, can't say too much yet, I don't hype or hate AI as of now, it's simply useful.

Time will tell what happens, but if programming becomes "prompt engineering", I'm planning on quitting my job and pivoting to something else. It's nice to get stuff working fast, but AI just sucks the joy out of building for me.

Trying to not feel the pressure/anxiety from this, but every time a new model drops there is this tiny moment where I think "Is it actually different this time?"

[keychera]

I have similar stance to you. LLM has been very useful for me but it doesn't really change the fun-ness of programming since my circumstances has allowed me find programming to be very fun. I also want to pivot out to something else if English prompt becomes the main way to develop complex software. Though my other passion is having worse career horizon in the generative AI world (art making). We'll see.

[tripledry]

Yes, not too optimistic on the art side when it comes to commercial stuff - if you can generate it cheaply it will be used.

On the hobby side (music) I don't feel the pressure as bad but that's because I don't have any commercial aspirations, it's purely for fun.

[weatherlite]

> Time will tell what happens, but if programming becomes "prompt engineering", I'm planning on quitting my job and pivoting to something else. It's nice to get stuff working fast, but AI just sucks the joy out of building for me.

I hear you but I think many companies will change the role ; you'll get the technical ownership + big chunks of the data/product/devops responsibility. I'm speculating but I think one person can take that on himself with the new tools and deliver tremendous value. I don't know how they'll call this new role though, we'll see.

[tripledry]

Sure, IF the performance + economics is there. But that doesn't sound like an enjoyable profession to me.

I enjoy the plan, think, code cycle - it's just fun.

My brain has problems with not understanding how the thing I'm delivering works, maybe I'll get used to it.

[seanmcdirmid]

Pity, prompt engineering is just another kind of programming, I find it to be fun, but I guess lots of other people would see it differently.

[friendzis]

The venn diagram of engineering and prompting is two circles, maybe a tiny overlap with integrated environments like claude code.

A program, by definition, is analyzable and repeatable, whereas prompting is anything but that.

[tripledry]

Indeed it is another kind of programming, I simply don't enjoy it.

But it is also very early to say, maybe the next iteration of tools will completely change my perspective, I might enjoy it some day!

[FiberBundle]

Programming without flow state. Nice.