I Am Happier Writing Code by Hand (www.abhinavomprakash.com)
from codeinabox@programming.dev to programming@programming.dev on 08 Feb 20:44
https://programming.dev/post/45449298

cross-posted from: lemmy.bestiver.se/post/913005

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nymnympseudonym@piefed.social on 08 Feb 21:24 next collapse

There are true artists who make paper by hand like they used to in China. It’s beautiful. It’s much more heterogeneous than machine made paper. It makes for wonderful gifts.

It would be prohibitively expensive and lower quality to use hadmade paper towels, toilet paper, etc.

GiorgioPerlasca@lemmy.ml on 08 Feb 21:55 collapse

There is something similar in Japan, it is called gampi paper. It played a role in Japanese literature and a movie, The Pillow Book (1996).

BrianTheeBiscuiteer@lemmy.world on 08 Feb 22:03 next collapse

Humans want to accomplish things, but business wants to get shit done. The two will always be at odds.

blitzen@lemmy.ca on 08 Feb 22:11 collapse

Ya, but one is shit.

GiorgioPerlasca@lemmy.ml on 08 Feb 22:17 collapse

Writing code is only the tip of the iceberg. You actually have to:

  • understand how the company works
  • understand the use case you are managing and how it relates to other business flows
  • understand strenghts and weaknesses of the technologies, libraries and frameworks involved
  • decide which one to use and how
  • thinking about all possible corner cases, evaluating their frequency and importance
  • only at the end, write, test, optimize the code

While large language models can help in the last step, they are very limited in previous ones, except working as a search engine on steroids.