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0 pointstheshrike797mo ago0 comments

Exactly!

90% of what the average (or median) coder does isn't in any way novel or innovative. It's just API Glue in one form or another.

The AI knows the patterns and can replicate the same endpoints and simple queries easily.

Now you have more time to focus on the 10% that isn't just rehashing the same CRUD pattern.

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rimunroe7mo ago

> 90% of what the average (or median) coder does isn't in any way novel or innovative. It's just API Glue in one form or another.

I hear this from people extolling the virtue of AI a lot, but I have a very hard time believing it. I certainly wouldn't describe 90% of my coding work as boilerplate or API glue. If you're dealing with that volume of boilerplate/glue, isn't it incumbent upon you to try and find a way to remove that? Certainly sometimes it isn't feasible, but that seems like the exception encountered by people working on giant codebases with a very large number of contributors.

I don't think the work I do is innovative or even novel, but it is nuanced in a way I've seen Claude struggle with.

theshrike79OP7mo ago

To be more exact, 90% of the _code_ I write is mostly just different types of API glue. Get data from this system, process it and put it in another system.

It's the connectors that are 90-95% AI chow, just set it to task with a few examples and it'll have a full CRUD interface for your data done while you get more snacks.

Then you can spend _more_ of your limited time on the 10% of code that matters.

That said, less than 50% of my actual time spent on the clock is spent writing code. That's the easiest part of the job. The rest is coordinating and planning and designing.

rimunroe7mo ago

> To be more exact, 90% of the _code_ I write is mostly just different types of API glue

I assumed you were only talking about the actual code. It still seems really odd. Why is there so much unavoidable boilerplate?

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0 pointstheshrike797mo ago0 comments

Exactly!

90% of what the average (or median) coder does isn't in any way novel or innovative. It's just API Glue in one form or another.

The AI knows the patterns and can replicate the same endpoints and simple queries easily.

Now you have more time to focus on the 10% that isn't just rehashing the same CRUD pattern.

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rimunroe7mo ago

> 90% of what the average (or median) coder does isn't in any way novel or innovative. It's just API Glue in one form or another.

I don't think the work I do is innovative or even novel, but it is nuanced in a way I've seen Claude struggle with.

theshrike79OP7mo ago

To be more exact, 90% of the _code_ I write is mostly just different types of API glue. Get data from this system, process it and put it in another system.

It's the connectors that are 90-95% AI chow, just set it to task with a few examples and it'll have a full CRUD interface for your data done while you get more snacks.

Then you can spend _more_ of your limited time on the 10% of code that matters.

That said, less than 50% of my actual time spent on the clock is spent writing code. That's the easiest part of the job. The rest is coordinating and planning and designing.

rimunroe7mo ago

> To be more exact, 90% of the _code_ I write is mostly just different types of API glue

I assumed you were only talking about the actual code. It still seems really odd. Why is there so much unavoidable boilerplate?

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