Post #1339199

The other day I thought, I’d love to go back to coding. It’s fun. I want to sit with computer and make it do things again. But alas, I’m in a chapter in life where it’s not easy to make it happen. And I realized, one reason why I never liked AI for code and never understood people who say they do: it takes the fun out of coding. It doesn’t make it more fun, not for me at least. Part of the fun *is* in the figuring out of things. Maybe what it does, for most people, is it gives them the illusion of saving time. Because sitting and thinking about something until you figure it out takes time. But by then, your brain changes in irreversible ways. You “save” time getting to the answer because you underestimate the time it takes to review a seemingly plausible but possibly insidiously wrong one. And you also get a dopamine boost! What’s not to love? But over time, it gives way to a feeling of listlessness. What did you actually save and gain if you became codependent with a tool and stopped exercising your creative problem-solving capacity? That, to me, is not fun.