> I was fifteen minutes into writing some code by hand like a Neanderthal
Tell me this isn't classism. Tell me this kind of narrative isn't a new norm
Tell me this isn't classism. Tell me this kind of narrative isn't a new norm
That general idiom is old and fairly widely used. There was a Seinfeld episode in 1997 in which Elaine talked about “…not lurching around like a caveman.”
If you’re objecting to criticism of writing code by hand, the phrase is almost invariably used in a self-deprecating way, acknowledging some inefficiency or old-fashioned behavior with comic hyperbole. It’s not criticizing people who write code by hand as such - the author is criticizing themselves for doing something the hard way.
About the "hard way", everything in the article is screaming that OP's new way of coding is the hard way, not the other way around
I’m an AI skeptic, but this ain’t it.
OP explains his enormous and ridiculous struggles yet you say it is irrelevant.
He should have used OpenAI or Anthropic - instead of using Google, like a Neanderthal.