If you were a developer who enjoyed the craft before AI became so prevalent, how have your feelings changed after seeing AI do a lot of the ground work for you? Do you still enjoy it?
Sure. I could delegate the boring stuff to an agent and focus on what I'm interested in. It would make me more productive, if I could e.g. just let the agent generate an optimizer and code generator for any required target for my intermediate language. I have not yet found a system though which can do that without significant effort from my side; currently I don't seem to spare time; I just spend it differently (controlling the agent and getting aroung its weaknesses).
To be honest, I’ve started enjoying my favorite job — programming — even more.
Elegant algorithmic solutions and clean architecture always brought me joy.
Now there’s an additional one: reviewing and fixing code generated by AI.
It occasionally makes me feel a bit smarter.
