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Re:AI Is a Bad Tool by Ken_At_EM on Monday July 13, 2026 @04:53PM (#48898698)
ok but a lot of coding used to be fighting package managers, discovering bugs in dependencies, dealing with deploy baloney, etc, not just "solving puzzles" or "architecting the backend"
Re:AI Is a Bad Tool by remich on Monday July 13, 2026 @04:57PM (#48898762)
Yeah the rose colored glasses some people seem to have about how fun doing everything by hand was in the past and how well most people did those things continues to astonish me