Before ChatGPT or DeepSeek existed, successfully completing a coding task was a very fulfilling experience, even if it took a long time. Now that things can be done quickly, the sense of accomplishment feels diminished.
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trcooke 34 Newbie Poster
This question sounds familiar.....(https://coderanch.com/t/789618/Speed-Replaces-Satisfaction-Coding) I'll repeat what I said over there.
Perhaps fulfillment just looks different with AI "accelerator" tools such as the ones you mentioned. Can you develop code quickly while maintaining your values? Is your code well tested? Is your code beautiful? Do you have confidence in your code? Can you put your code in production and sleep well at night?
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Dani 4,645 The Queen of DaniWeb Administrator Featured Poster Premium Member
Giving you some reputation so you won’t get flagged by the spam bot anymore
Oops! I tried, but I’m in bed feeling unwell today (one of my bad days, I’m afraid) and didn’t realize this was posted in the off-topic lounge, which doesn’t award reputation.
trcooke 34 Newbie Poster
Oops! I tried
It's ok, I know I'm a nobody around here. I think I've sussed the spam bot, links are ok but only if they're out in the open.
Reverend Jim 5,216 Hi, I'm Jim, one of DaniWeb's moderators. Moderator Featured Poster
Compare this to making cookies. One person's idea of making cookies is
- open the bag
- put the cookies on a plate
- done
The other extreme would involve grinding the flour and harvesting eggs from your own chickens. I prefer something in the middle. I have enjoyed programming as a professional and a hobbyist for more than 45 years, but I never enjoyed the parts where I had to spend hours uselessly searching for how to build the nuts and bolts. I recently needed to spawn an external process in Python and capture stdout in real time. The subprocess docs detail the methods and properties, but not what to do with them. ChatGPT gave me the code, saving me from a day or two of experimentation. That left me free to create the rest of the code to solve my problem.
Similarly I prefer to code in higher level languages, not assembler (although I have done major development in assembler). Coding in Python in fun. Coding in assembler is tedious and mind numbing.
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