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perhaps during those walks he may try and catch up on the learning being missed out on by having outsourcing thinking to a data collection machine

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This reads as a flippant and reductive comment that projects a bit ("outsourcing thinking to a data collection machine"?) but actually helps surface a good rule of thumb:

If you're telling an agent how to implement something, congrats! You're doing it right and should go on a walk while it's being implemented.

If the agent is telling you how to implement something, you should probably take a walk to digest it, and come back to tell that implementation-machine what to actually do so you can take another walk while it's being implemented.

i have no idea what you are accusing me of, did you want to make it a bit clearer what i am supposedly projecting? to me, the act of doing something is outsourced to entity X, when entity X is requested to do that thing (and proceeds to do it). are you saying the only actual thinking that occurs in human structures occurs at the planning level, therefore plan execution involves no further scope for learning?

I mean, you're free to not "outsource your thinking". If you actually believe that fiddling with the code by hand is essential, just spend 5 minutes giving a prompt and 55 minutes working by hand. Boom, you're as efficient as 2 programmers were before AI, and you only had to "miss out on" 1/12th of the learning.

That's great for everyone who isn't the author of the post:

> A year ago leadership told us everything goes through agents now. Hand written code needed a reason

I can't imagine needing to ask for permission or having to justify myself every time I personally wrote code. That definitely sounds like hell

Ironically the author of the original post is probably a LLM reddit spam bot https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50434474

But in any case, in that hypothetical scenario, just automate your day job and spend time coding a side project you're passionate about. You might have to spend 10 minutes out of every hour prompting, but hey, that's still 400 minutes a day for your side project of choice.

im sure your take applies to the majority of men who label themselves programmers

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