Simon Willison 回应《我为编程写的讣告》:编程智能体夺走了程序员的解谜乐趣
My obituary for programming
Simon Willison 回应 Jeremy Scheff 的《我为编程写的讣告》,指出编程智能体让热爱解谜的程序员失去了核心乐趣。Scheff 认为编程曾是高薪的逻辑谜题工作,程序员掌握策略、时间线和可行性定义权。Willison 补充:若只在意构建可用系统,LLM 是持续馈赠;若享受解题过程,损失则非常真实。
Jeremy Scheff poignantly captures the key loss caused by coding agents for career programmers who enjoyed the puzzle of developing code:
Programming turned into one of the greatest jobs you could imagine. You got paid to work on tricky little logic puzzles. The trickier the puzzle, the more you got paid. But even pretty simple puzzles were worth a lot of money because regular people just couldn't do it! No, they needed us. They would give us a problem and we would solve it the way we wanted. We set the strategy, we made the timeline, we defined what was and was not possible.
If you're a programmer who thrives on building working systems and doesn't care too deeply about the problems solved along the way, LLMs are the gift that keeps on giving.
If solving those many problems were a big part of your enjoyment, the loss is very real.
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Tags: programming, careers, ai, generative-ai, llms, coding-agents, deep-blue
来源:Simon Willison 博客 · simonwillison.net