Post B1BG3ASHYvsQagvGG8 by cammerman@mstdn.social
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 (DIR) Post #B1BG2vxHTOlBcUJIzg by cammerman@mstdn.social
       2025-12-12T17:27:06Z
       
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       I don't know how you can read this Yegge post and think "yes, this is what programming should be like in the future."I also don't know how you can trust the judgement of someone who says, without apparent irony or self-awareness, that the LLM (Claude in this case) "likes" something.And that goes double for someone who will ask the LLM to describe why it likes something, and then include that in their blog post in lieu of an actual explanation of why the thing is goodhttps://steve-yegge.medium.com/introducing-beads-a-coding-agent-memory-system-637d7d92514a
       
 (DIR) Post #B1BG2x43Lhlt3mUEBk by cammerman@mstdn.social
       2025-12-12T17:34:27Z
       
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       I will tell you what the AI hype sounds like to me....Data-driven UI. UI generated dynamically based on nested templates and conventions, with descriptions of content and specific arrangements stored in the database.Every now and then as a programmer you will run into someone who has discovered this idea. Or, worse, you'll end up maintaining a system built this way. And you will see what it takes to build and run and evolve such a system, and you will say "never again."
       
 (DIR) Post #B1BG2xvw7MsBkthGAy by cammerman@mstdn.social
       2025-12-12T17:41:58Z
       
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       Building a data-driven UI is not programming, but it is programming-adjacent. It allows you produce stacks and stacks of screens and forms and wizards extremely rapidly, with supreme confidence that they all "just work." And no designer ever bothers you again about icky front-end stuff.The problem is that you have to compromise on every aspect of design in order to find something that fits into the platform's model. And that gets you shitty, least-common-denominator UX.
       
 (DIR) Post #B1BG2yXrqLDLeXRYIa by cammerman@mstdn.social
       2025-12-12T17:45:57Z
       
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       This is vibe-coding, but instead of UX it's the actual code your producing. And instead of avoiding HTML and CSS, you're avoiding stuff like writing unit tests and projecting data between structures.But the drive is the same: Faster production, with less of the work you dislike doing.But the work that replaces it is, in my opinion at least, even less enjoyable or fulfilling.
       
 (DIR) Post #B1BG2zEPIBF3mTLWbY by cammerman@mstdn.social
       2025-12-12T17:48:29Z
       
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       So many senior devs lament how much time they have to spend coaching and giving feedback, and how little time they have for code.And with LLMs we see rafts of senior devs gleefully shifting their career so that all they do now is coach and provide feedback to a dumb agent that will never learn anything permanently from the process, never surpass its master, never stand on their shoulders and move on to greater things.Teaching, but without any long term ROI. What a shitty gig that sounds like
       
 (DIR) Post #B1BG3ASHYvsQagvGG8 by cammerman@mstdn.social
       2025-12-12T18:04:15Z
       
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       Hands on, 1:1 teaching and coaching is one of the things I love most about programming as a career.Making new makers. Making new lovers of making... It's not always this grand, but the times that it is carry me through when it's not.To see that job destroyed, and that labor robbed of its humanity, by taking out the learning human and replacing it with a machine (and one that can't even actually learn)... This is tragic, to me.