Ask HN: The quiet demolition of self‑learned skill

So I am a self-taught programmer and I have my way of creating programs. So it's easy to read, to comprehend and then I made the mistake of giving a part of this code to an LLM. And it turned out that it shortened my code to about 10% of the lines that I used and the code is now much more performant. At first I was psyched but then I thought I put so much effort into that. Years of my life went into being able to code like this, I used to be proud of it, and this LLM just does it in a fraction of the time. Just like that. Better, quicker. It now feels like it's not my code anymore. It's not my idea anymore.

Yes, it threw me into a small existential crisis.

Can you relate?

PS: I'm certain that every artist right now and every voice actor can relate.

1 points | by Haeuserschlucht 2 hours ago

1 comments

  • bryanrasmussen 1 hour ago
    I'm not sure what "giving a part of this code to an LLM" means.

    Does it mean you had written some code and you gave it to the LLM and asked it to improve it?

    How readable and maintainable is the code produced?