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This was a great read, Daniel! but you're missing a space after a comma in “Later on,they” couldyoufixitpls

And I am very much on the same page as you. It's an awesome tool, and I just fixed a critical bug in the i18n module with an agent. I feel like Tony Stark, as I was able to do it so much quicker than I ever could on my own, not being familiar with that codebase.

LLM are invented to cheat and lie, but if you are clever you can hack them to do really incredible things.

and you are nothing if not clever

RUDE! I just got a new haircut

As a “former gifted kid” I can confirm indeed that sometimes I feel lost 🫠

> they start to feel demotivated or aimless as life gets more complicated and 'success' feels harder to achieve For me it’s not life getting more complicated or harder, it’s just that I don’t know what success looks like *now*, it lacks any structure

I never opened a book in high school or done any homework… I got out with 100/100 and all the time I “saved” I spent learning programming concepts. As long as the grades were good I was “succeeding” and didn’t have to worry, but now how do I know if I am? 😅

not about this particular post -- very stoked to see your blog in nuxt (with bluesky comments). I love the dogfooding, and am going to see how you did the bsky integration and copy that, if that's ok.

@danielroe.dev, as a person with dyslexia, it's impossible for me to read it. I think the problem is the low contrast between the background and the text colo r

a good reason to redesign my site can you use reader mode for now?

I've made some fixes for light mode on my website - is it any better for you now? (you might also find dark mode is more readable)

I believe it depends on how good the LLM is (or how good it gets). If it genuinely provides a new layer of abstraction, then there may be no need to ever touch code again. We all just become system designers. I'm sure hole punchers also felt attachment to their craft.

textiles are a more worthwhile analogy to consider. people don't run their businesses on hole punchers, nor do they stack businesses, OSS infra, SDN, etc on hole punchers. we still can't make machines that can crochet c: and applying a pattern for knitting with a machine isn't fully automated.

But we do have machines that churn out textiles? People don't weave cotton by hand.