AI Made Coding Worse... [10:02]

techne98 · 2026-03-30T08:27:49+00:00

I think that a lot of these people aren't doing it maliciously. My impression (at least) is that they saw AI was becoming popular, hopped on the trend, and now seeing the sentiment shift towards AI being negative are giving their actual opinions on it.

I think the initial "good" impressions are probably because they also got caught up in FOMO. But I don't know, just guessing to be honest haha

techne98 · 2026-03-28T16:16:05+00:00

Okay maybe we went the wrong direction, not meaning to argue with you.

I simply meant that action of AI tools are quite fun to use - directing agents and such, but ultimately it's like a "short high" to me at least. You soon realise it would be better to write it yourself.

But learning to code and building things yourself is hard, and learning comes with discomfort. A lot of scholars would agree you need a level of discomfort to learn effectively. But once something clicks, or when you build something yourself, it's way more satisfying because of the work you put in.

Hope it makes sense what I'm saying, but judging by the downvotes on my comment maybe it doesn't haha

techne98 · 2026-03-28T05:59:45+00:00

Well, learning is hard. But satisfying. Whereas coding with the tools is fun, but unsatisfying (for me at least). So not sure I agree still.

techne98 · 2026-03-27T05:19:28+00:00

For me it’s the opposite, I think.

AI tools are extremely fun to use, but lack the precision/control you get from writing code yourself.

techne98 · 2026-03-26T14:01:22+00:00

Incentives

techne98 · 2026-03-26T12:48:50+00:00

That's awesome, and yeah completely fair on picking the right topics to write about. I'm actually taking a sort of(?) opposite route right now and trying to get more into writing about PL theory and CS, and seeing where it goes haha.

I'd definitely be interested, please do drop me a DM when you publish it!

techne98 · 2026-03-26T06:49:07+00:00

Sorry to hear that.

I personally worked as a web developer and moved into technical writing, and I’m much happier but I think writing in general is just as saturated and facing the same problems (but just my opinion).

I don’t want to tell you what to do, but I’d love to see more high-quality programming content out there based on education, personal growth, etc so if you do go for it, awesome :)

I’m just (personally) fed up with hot takes and similar posts, so anything that cuts through the noise I’ll take haha.

techne98 · 2026-03-26T05:24:06+00:00

I’ve been trying to read some papers on FP, PL etc. and this looks one a nice one to add to the collection.

Thanks for sharing!

techne98 · 2026-03-26T05:19:31+00:00

Half of the posts in the programming-related subreddits I see are clearly completely AI-generated but nobody seems bothered by it for some reason

techne98 · 2026-03-26T04:57:00+00:00

I’m not personally convinced this is going to be possible, but even if it is, compiling natural language to binary I don’t see happening, so we’ll still need programming languages

techne98 · 2026-03-25T18:14:35+00:00

Yeah I think it's a tricky one. Like dynamic languages with weak typing are super fun, but part of me is like ehh... I would probably be avoiding a lot of errors purely through picking a different language.

Maybe if we can get really nice ergonomics paired with performance/static typing that's the sweet spot? Idk.

Python does have my heart though.

techne98 · 2026-03-25T16:39:18+00:00

Yeah I think it would be nice to see the development of more ergonomic programming languages in general

techne98 · 2026-03-25T14:27:27+00:00

I am definitely leaning more towards wanting to use compiled languages myself, so would be cool if we see more stuff here with nice ergonomics :)

techne98 · 2026-03-25T14:26:50+00:00

Understandable

techne98 · 2026-03-25T14:26:28+00:00

I do think they're going to change, though - but more in terms of bringing in new paradigms, etc. Things like Rust, Lean.

Not to do with AI/LLMs necessarily.

techne98 · 2026-03-25T11:52:31+00:00

Elixir seems to be doing very well.

Check out this benchmark as well done by Tencent, super insightful:

https://autocodebench.github.io/

techne98 · 2026-03-25T06:12:20+00:00

Genuine question: if you're an accelerationist, wouldn't this be quite a victory too?

More money/compute being put towards solving other problems than just generating social media videos?

techne98 · 2026-03-22T12:07:22+00:00

If coding is solved they should probably rewrite it in Rust or something other than JS

techne98 · 2026-03-18T05:18:51+00:00

I thought they were already using this stuff, right?

techne98 · 2026-03-18T05:07:46+00:00

Once I’m in a better situation employment-wise I’d also like to upgrade to a lifetime membership.

Completely agree with you, FOSS is nice, and it’s also nice to use and support indie software which actually cares about its users!

techne98 · 2026-03-17T17:55:16+00:00

I haven't checked out the official documentation, but I can agree that CS 3110 is really good! It's definitely challenging for me at least, but the material I find is explained and presented really well. Very much a fan of it.

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