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Lately however, work has started feeling duller than before. Whenever I'm digging through a deep problem by manually inspecting a stack trace or writing a piece of code by hand I'm overwhelmed with: "I should be doing this differently".
And whenever I do it the agentic way I find myself having to re-read a lot of things to understand the changes.
I was happier when I could just write it myself without thinking about token subscriptions. I liked writing code.
Can I still code myself at least a bit? Or should I try to move on?
Why do we need this? Why do we need to synthetically generate art, content and other media that humans enjoy creating themselves? Weren't the machines supposed to make labour easier? Why is OpenAI - with a nobel name like that - creating something like Sora, instead of state-of-the-art medical models? Is the current gen AI state a stepping stone to much more useful applications?
I understand the appeal when it comes to writing code, it does really speed things up and leaves the creativity to the programmer.
But so far, I've only seen gen AI be used for low-effort content, gimmicky apps and fraud. Yes, it is an interesting technology but still, why generate media?
What do you think?
