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I’m finding that I really enjoy the skipping the tedious stuff, and I’m also writing higher quality stuff because I have more bandwidth
adregan on Hacker News
In the thread “Now might be the best time to learn software development”
Helped: Using AI as an assistant for planning, navigation, and automation rather than autonomous coding.
Got in the way: Autonomous execution often produced spaghetti code, feeling like a junior engineer.
… Think about a doc with before and after screenshots of changes throughout an app produced by a playwright script and a report generator that I can rerun in under a minute whenever I want. I’m finding that I really enjoy the skipping the tedious stuff, and I’m also writing higher quality stuff because I have more bandwidth. It helps me collaborate more with my non dev peers because it lowers the barrier to sharing. …