Disclaimer: This post was written May 2025, and the arguments apply to AI code capabilities at this time. The arguments around lack of competence are certainly likely to become less prevalent-while the parts about the desecration of the joys of programming, and fundamental human understanding of programming-are likely to become

The thing I hate the most about AI and it’s ease of access; the slow, painful death of the hacker soul—brought not by war or scarcity, but by convenience. By buttons. By bots. […]

There was once magic here. There was once madness.

Kids would stay up all night on IRC with bloodshot eyes, trying to render a cube in OpenGL without segfaulting their future. They cared. They would install Gentoo on a toaster just to see if it’d boot. They knew the smell of burnt voltage regulators and the exact line of assembly where Doom hit 10 FPS on their calculator. These were artists. They wrote code like jazz musicians—full of rage, precision, and divine chaos.

Now? We’re building a world where that curiosity gets lobotomized at the door. Some poor bastard—born to be great—is going to get told to “review this AI-generated patchset” for eight hours a day, until all that wonder calcifies into apathy. The terminal will become a spreadsheet. The debugger a coffin.

Unusually well-written piece on the threat AI poses to programming as an art form.

    • Valmond@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      1 day ago

      Yeah same here, I’m working on a “work less, spend less” lifestyle but it’s quite hard for some resaon to convince people to hire you at less than at full time. Personally I think I’d do the same job, or better, in 4 days. 3 days would yield less total work but more per day.

      🤷🏼‍♀️

      • Photuris@lemmy.mlEnglish
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        1 day ago

        Healthcare is, sadly, tied to employment here in the US. That’s why the distinction between “full-time” and “part-time.”

        I cannot go part time for that reason (even if it were an option in our industry to begin with).

        I’d much rather be able to scale up and down my work hours, as needed (given life circumstances, current money needs, energy levels, etc.). But that’s a pipe dream.

        • Valmond@lemmy.worldEnglish
          1·
          13 hours ago

          I’m trying to figure that one out, but any C/C++ job seems to be like both fulltime and let’s start for 6/9 months but implicitly you’re just gonna stzy here forever.

          As I speak english I should maybe try the international market, any ideas where to look for jobs?