Programming is a creative pursuit

AI wouldn't replace all programming for the same reason it wouldn't replace all writing, or all art.

Last updated: about 2 months ago
⚠️ This note is a malt🌾: raw and extremely rough.

Recent comments by the CEO of Anthropic have sparked some interesting discussions around the internet. As one Redditor succinctly put it:

“Guy whose job it is to hype up a product to secure more VC funding hypes up a product.”

Not that I’m not against LLMs in general—quite the opposite. I’m way more productive than I would be without them.

Ideas to expand upon:

  • New programming languages
  • Net new thinking
  • The urge to create
  • Barefoot developers
  • Purpose and meaning
  • Grunt work and Parkinson’s Law
  • Marketing copy and SEO stuff
  • Boilerplate code
  • Accounting for taste