Jeremy Scheff laments how coding agents change the fun of programming
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On October 20, Simon Willison cited Jeremy Scheff's "obituary" for programming, discussing how coding agents affect the working experience of professional programmers. Scheff recalled the pleasure programmers get from being paid to solve logic puzzles, and from setting their own strategy, schedule and feasibility limits. Willison stressed that coding agents take away part of the fun for programmers who enjoy solving problems themselves, and split programmers into two groups: for those who value building working systems, LLMs are a gift that keeps paying off; for those who see solving problems themselves as a key pleasure, the loss is real.
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- Simon WillisonMy obituary for programming
编码智能体让享受亲自解题的职业程序员失去部分工作乐趣，这是 Simon Willison 引用 Jeremy Scheff 文章时强调的核心观点。Scheff 回顾了程序员通过解决逻辑难题获得报酬，并自主制定策略、时间表和可行性边界的工作体验。Willison 指出，对重视构建可用系统的程序员，LLM 是持续带来收益的礼物；对把亲自解决问题视为重要乐趣的人，这种损失很真实。
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