I miss writing code
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but does code miss you?
I hope so
it better
You know, nobody is stopping you.
Only the weakness of my convictions
#vibecoding
After 25 years of writing code for 8hrs a day, I haven't touched my MacBook since 2 years (since my daughter was born) and I don't miss it at all.
(and I totally did not expect that I can just unplug and walk away from it all cold turkey)
even the boring parts?
people have run scaffold tools, code migration tools, automated code editing tools forever
even libraries are a way of not writing code
you wrote code for a living and now you just have infinite money?
but were you just working on someone else's stuff, no personal projects?
what are you doing now? I think I need some advice on doing what you have done
do you plan on coming back eventually?
You can just write code. That's what I do.
But never have we given away our professional judgement itself over to the machine while we watch. If you use other tools for automation, at least you were giving that agency over to the other person who wrote the program, but even that's gone.
You have to display some judgement in every line of code you write. Even if it's bad. Doing it improves your judgement and taste over time.
But with an AI agent it's zero judgement. Not even good or bad judgement. You get nothing out of the activity.
slot machine goes brrr
Watching the agent work 
I don’t. Made a living coding for 30 years of my life… I’d rather live on the beach, stupid computers.
same thing
You can be the “Artisanal Code Guy” - fresh all human batches slow cooked to elegant supportable perfection!
Unfortunately I'm still stuck on a computer
The boring parts are inextricably tied up with the interesting parts
Why do I have to care about most people if most people are retarded? Most people are going to use agents and that's exactly the reason not to follow them.
Correct.
I'm preparing myself to homeschool my daughter now. That will take me about 18 years, so I guess I will never come back to coding, except when that needs to be taught to my daughter eventually.
ok that's good
but that isn't a full-time job, right?
your daughter won't need a full-time teacher, she will learn much more by herself than from you
and you'll have a lot of free time
lol
I consantly need to be ahead of her to prepare myself for the next topics and in the afternoons I have to drive her around to extra curricular activities and friends. It's gonna be a full time job for sure.
I guess you already have her entire life planned
Of course. Now I sit back and watch The Plan brace for impact with The Reality. 🍿
what is the obsession with vibe coding? I've seen so many people spend more time fixing their agents code than actually working on features. even my professor who is pretty AI pilled has started complaining about all the issues he encounters with them. what are your thoughts?
Doing it well takes an incredible amount of discipline. Writing code is easy because it keeps your mental model in sync with the product. Agentic coding is hard because you have to deliberately slow down to maintain your mental model, when the entire reason you're using the tool is to speed up. I haven't been able to strike that balance myself yet.
what are the advantages? it doesn't seem like speed is much of an advantage given what you said about slowing down to account for the mental models and having to continuously fix your agents code.
i feel there is too much emphasis on speed and delivery. things take time and love to blossom! i am keen on using these tools if they have the potential to genuinely help me, allow me to spend more time doing what i find rewarding, and make my codebase robust and clean.
what are your thoughts?
Because you don’t need any coding knowledge to use it, which is also the drawback when something goes wrong.