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Seventeen Years of Coding and Starting Over

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by bluefirebrand

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I've been feeling this a lot
I don't know what I'm going to do next but I have very little interest in or respect for LLM assisted coding, so I think the industry is likely not a good place for me anymore
If I could retire I would but I'm not quite 40. I don't have the savings to stop working now. So I'll figure out something new I guess
What a bummer. I loved my career to this point and I'm very sad that LLMs have ruined it
I guess I'm glad I'm not alone in this

by sureglymop

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At the end of last year I started to feel a little burned out and seemingly had lost my curiosity, motivation and passion for computers.
I started again with something I don't do at my day job, assembly and low level programming. It's been a blessing to learn and realize that things can actually be much simpler at that level. I'm especially interested in anything that actually needs one to drop down to assembly level and can't be done in some low level languages. E.g. implementing coroutines, jit compilation, self modifying binaries etc. I don't think I'll ever be able to use this knowledge professionally but more importantly, it's fun! Any more ideas for fun stuff are welcome. :)

by Slow_Hand

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For the first time this year (and nearing 40) I'm teaching myself web development and learning to code - and I love it. I like the problem solving, and the creativity, and having the facility to build things for myself.
The threat of LLMs undermining my opportunities in the work pool are never far from my mind as I move towards a seemingly burning building, but you know what? I will do it regardless, because even though my prospects for employment may be diminished I'm enjoying the craft, and I like being creative with it.
I intend to embrace LLMs as an augmentation of my will once I get a good grasp on how to code proficiently. Maybe I'm too late for the heyday of coding by hand, but if these tools allow me more power to solve the ACTUAL problem, then that's alright. The point is to solve problems, right? Not to write code.