I get to do all the fun stuff. It's amazing.
You can still enjoy the journey, but still profit of AI; I think AI is extremely useful to discuss concepts; e.g. recently I did extensive research about different versions of L4 microkernels to finally implement my own; it's a completely different world now, where I can ask a seemingly "omniscient" expert everithing from general concepts to the minute details; also services like deepwiki are extremely useful. The best "technical discussion partner ever" from my perspective is Claude Sonnet 4.5 with the "thinking" option.
> "And because it got the easy parts right, I feel compelled to give it another chance.."
I agree that the generated code is often incomplete or pretty strange, but recently I was able to generate some quite complex algorithms from a paper to C++ and Go using Gpt-5 and was very surprised that it not only immediately compiled, but also worked. With Claude Sonnet or Opus debugging and fixing took usually as long as writing from scratch. There are always things that just have to be implemented but I'm glad that I don't have to myself, which enables me to focus on the things I mostly care of, or even dare to do projects which would take much too long if I had to write everything myself.
p5v•3mo ago