2026-07-16 11:06 UTC
@jaredwhite@indieweb.social @camertron@ruby.social for some coding is the means to an end and the joy is ultimately in creating things. For others the coding itself is the source of joy and they are not really interested in a finished product. I know programmers of both sorts.
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@jaredwhite@indieweb.social 2026-07-16 14:28
@ristkof@mastodon.social @camertron@ruby.social I'm definitely interested in the finished product though. As the meme goes…why not both? 😄
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@camertron@ruby.social 2026-07-25 19:43
@ristkof@mastodon.social @jaredwhite@indieweb.social Yeah, I know coders in both camps, and I would count myself in both as well: I enjoy the act of coding and I also enjoy shipping finished things. But we have to start being honest about what using LLMs to create things actually means. If I ask Claude to make something, Claude made it, not me. I can't take any pride in it because I all I really did was pay Anthropic for some custom software that I don't understand and can't maintain.