AI or manual?

[u/Inevitable-Owl2953]

I am the only one who is not getting fun or kick from doing coding from AI is it great that now work is easier but that fun in coding is gone by using copilot and all🥲😂

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[u/Deep-Tailor568]

Lost the puzzle-solving part and now it feels like filling out forms, the rush of fixing a weird bug by yourself was the whole point

[u/daddywookie → u/Deep-Tailor568]

The whole point was to solve the problem and add value. Developers just got lucky for a long time that they were uniquely able to do that and could mostly enjoy doing it while getting paid.

I like riding my bike. If I want to actually get somewhere I drive. Hobby vs utility.

[u/Inevitable-Owl2953 → u/Deep-Tailor568]

You won't believe i have not use debugger from last 7 or 8 month's 😂 to debug where is the issue

[u/symbiatch → u/Deep-Tailor568]

How did you lose it? Writing code isn’t the puzzle solving part… And if debugging is done by AI then find a more challenging job.

[u/n9iels]

There is a lot between not using AI at all and using it for everything. I am at your side, but there are plenty of tasks I don't like, mainly boiler code, huge refactors or dependency upgrades. For those purposes AI is really nice.

[u/Inevitable-Owl2953 → u/n9iels]

The fact is now ai or copilot is part of our work we accept or not somewhere we dependent on it

[u/eboob1179]

I'm gonna probably end up getting fired for calling ai an idiot.

[u/Ancient-Range3442 → u/eboob1179]

I called copilot a f’ing idiot and then got an email from HR two hours later with an official warning that abuse like that is not tolerated:(

[u/eboob1179 → u/Ancient-Range3442]

Haha me too

[u/SWEETJUICYWALRUS → u/eboob1179]

I talk to it like my boss talks to me so I have plausible deniability when I call it a slur

[u/bathroom_unicorn0216 → u/eboob1179]

Heyyy same with me haha

[u/Individual_One_1793]

Code wriring and problem solving are two entirely separate things. I write code 90% less nowadays, but problem solving is still high demand, and that's where I get my kick and rush from. Architecture building and developing, finding the best answer for particular questions and so on. Coding didn't help there before, now with AI it does as I can focus more on what matters to me.

[u/SourceSubject7219]

I found that focusing more on the high-level stuff, architecture and such and being more focused on the overall application gave me back much of the joy.

[u/ForsakenBet2647]

Another one reminiscing having fun while coding! Guess what, you can still code manually but I wouldn't expect to get paid for it.

[u/Hour_Sell3547]

That's why I now do two types of coding. One is for fun, the other one is for work.

But tbh, agentic coding is still fun to me. I'm more of a software architect now, so designing the best way to solve a problem is quite fun as well, to me at least.

Solving a problem is fun, coding, not necessarily. Wrote millions of lines already.

[u/Ok-Count-3366]

you are not the only one. AI took the joy out of programming for me.

[u/Dissentient]

I never had fun writing code, so AI just made it less tedious for me.

[u/Rav_3d]

AI coding is fun if you do the hard thinking and just use AI as a junior developer.