Me: If I want to get paid for dev again—and I do—I should probably spend less time hand-writing code in niche languages and messing about with niche applications. Maybe spend some time with LLMs generating React applications instead.
Also me: (spends the first part of the morning writing #Janet code to explore API functionality in #Logseq)
Hang on.
With advances in computing, programming languages, and shared assumptions, "trivial program" is a huge domain now.
Authenticated requests to a server for specific data extracted from text files on disk, in a structured format, pretty-printed, in <100ms? 30 years ago that was a *chore*. Now? 22 lines on my end.
Coding gets more powerful and approachable every day.
Yet someone wants me to rent a fleet of bots to write 5,000 LoC that needs an audit and still doesn't do what I need.
