I once rewrote a large component in our codebase, which was the right move because it was unmaintainable. When I was done, I was quite proud of myself and I also think that i designed it nicely and extensible (coherent pipes) while keeping the constraints of the rest of the system in mind. Then the slop commits came in and you could watch it deteriorate so fast it is insane and sad. And additionally, I stopped caring, which is an additional loss

I get discouraged a lot of times seeing others just generate in some days what would have taken me months. But your point is what I keep in mind and it encourages me again. You can either stand still and externalize your brain to the cloud (trend) or actually develop it on your own (timeless).

just checked this talk and holy shit, this is exactly how I imagined these kinds of meetings, just a bunch of guys that agree on everything they say and probably feel so smart about it

thats my exact specs, and its still doing ok, even for gaming

But what exactly is the skill here? Even if you do some mental gymnastics and count prompting as a skill, this is just going to get easier and easier, there is no skill. I have accepted that this is going to essentially replace programming as we know it. But I do not want to be part of that. I can feel the cognitive decline already, how bad is it going to be in 10+ years…