Oh, sure, I can make things with it. But I have an extraordinarily hard time saying that I made something.
It feels like it cheapens the whole thing. Maybe I'm just old, because I remember people saying the same thing about code completion in Visual Studio back in the late 90s.
This is so much more than code completion, though.
Exactly how I feel. I didn’t make a damn thing. I essentially asked a chatbot to.
Did I ask for better things with some important concepts pre-rolled? Yeah, of course. But that’s so, so much less interesting than having actually made a thing.
I try to remind myself that the output of my projects have nothing to do with who I am, but the honest truth is they always mattered to me.
Now that’s dead, and it’s never coming back. It ain’t exactly existential dread, but it is something I’ve lost.
It feels like it cheapens the whole thing. Maybe I'm just old, because I remember people saying the same thing about code completion in Visual Studio back in the late 90s.
This is so much more than code completion, though.