I roll my eyes at this when thinking about the poor JavaScript developer that cannot write code without things like jquery or React.

If code were so easy there wouldn’t be so much bloat and slow garbage in the world.

Sometimes coding is hard. There are two types of hard things: algorithms and architecture. LLMs are good at algorithms, not good at architecture.

Most of the time coding is not very hard, it’s filling in the blanks, implementing the business logic, writing boilerplate code. LLMs are good at this too.

As soon as the context builds up high it just starts doing things straight up wrong

I've been trying to network a simple tactics game with AI and it just is a hydra of sync issues despite clear explanations of what they are and bug reports and desired end-states.

That 14% might have been hard, but it is definitely still the smallest part of being an engineer.

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