Seems like maybe antirez has lost the joy of coding, at least for a little while.
It's easy to get caught up in what you dislike about software, but you have to make yourself try new stuff too. There's always more delight to be found. Right now, I think it's good to embrace LLM assistants. Being able to sit down and avoid all the most tedious parts and focus purely on engineering and design makes every session much more enjoyable.
Software itself is better now than it has ever been. We're slowly chipping away at our own superstitions. Just because some people are fully employed building empty VC scams and software to nowhere does not damn the rest of the practice.
I never lost the joy of coding since I simply do what I want and refuse to do what I don't enjoy. But unfortunately most people can't because of many reasons and I know many that are now very disappointed with the state of software.
Thanks for replying, and sorry for implying the wrong state of things.
I think that writing software for an employer has always kind of sucked. There's never enough time to improve things to the state they should be and you're always one weird product feature from having to completely mess up your nice abstraction.
I do feel like writing hobby software is in a great state now though. I can sit down for 30 minutes and now with Cursor/LLM assistance get a lot of code written. I'm actually kind of excited to see what new open source projects will exist in a few years with the aid of the new tools.
It's easy to get caught up in what you dislike about software, but you have to make yourself try new stuff too. There's always more delight to be found. Right now, I think it's good to embrace LLM assistants. Being able to sit down and avoid all the most tedious parts and focus purely on engineering and design makes every session much more enjoyable.
Software itself is better now than it has ever been. We're slowly chipping away at our own superstitions. Just because some people are fully employed building empty VC scams and software to nowhere does not damn the rest of the practice.