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Re:Tell HN: I Lost Joy of Programming by yamatokaneko on Wednesday July 09, 2025 @10:01AM (#44510152)
It’s not a perfect analogy, but I think there’s a parallel to coding.

Thanks to LLMs, I actually enjoy writing more than before. I spend less time typing and more time thinking about the core idea. Every time AI rewrites my messy draft, I find myself saying, “Yes—that’s exactly what I meant.” Then I get to fine-tune it and add my own voice, which makes the process fun.

I also love this quote from Paul Graham, "Writing, Briefly": “Writing doesn’t just communicate ideas; it generates them. If you’re bad at writing and don’t like to do it, you’ll miss out on most of the ideas writing would have generated.”

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