Mixed
Solid things in which i understood every aspect becomes a black box that does it for me and i have to reinterrogate or accept it
davkan on Hacker News
In the thread “For thirty years I programmed with Phish on, every day”, replying to this comment
Helped: Speed on routine admin tasks and rapid proof of concepts.
Got in the way: Loss of deep understanding and inability to learn via prompts.
… While not challenging or particularly rewarding those trivial tasks are a soothing part of the constant flow of work that i didn’t dislike. Solid things in which i understood every aspect becomes a black box that does it for me and i have to reinterrogate or accept it, and in which it’ll never be worth the time to learn myself. As for the deeper work, the most recent example I have is deploying an observability stack for our lab cluster. …