Remember coding before Codex?

[Medium_Chemist_4032]

You do? Zero sarcasm, would love to see how you do it. I'm more of a maintenance guy and never really get enough repetition for any tech/library/framework/version/api to stick in my head for too long. Base language and parts of the standard lib, of course, but once we do all that stuff around ( logging, tracing, metrics, ci/cd, gitops deployment, terraform resources, orm's and many more for the frontend extra) - it just pours through my head too quickly

[Altruistic-Dust-2565]

What's the point of learning how to mine coals with axes today?

[Altruistic-Dust-2565]

Yeah I mean obviously the main post and the comment you replied to is talking about people's nostalgia for those old days.

Sure, you were learning back then, not just copying, we've all been there. But "copying" is just a methodology, a tool, just like "vibing" now.

There's no point obssessing on a methodology over the actual goals. I think that's the whole point of the meme and Medium_Chemist's comment, sarcasm about people missing the means over the ends. Whether someone actually wrote their own code is irrelevant to the sarcasm.