Hey, great read as always. This director system is fascinatingly brutal; it almost makes my Pilates instructors seem chill by comparison! It really makes you think about how we define creativity an selection, and the ultimate stakes when we automate or optimise processes, even for art. Super insightful.
Chris, do you find that you spend more time doing this back and forth iteration with the coding agents than if you wrote the code yourself to begin with?
No definitely not. I’m talking very large changes (1000s of lines) that previously took weeks. However, for certain changes that have more to do with modifying existing behaviour than net new functionality and have high complexity, I will sometimes have to just make the change myself. But this is becoming more and more rare.
Hey, great read as always. This director system is fascinatingly brutal; it almost makes my Pilates instructors seem chill by comparison! It really makes you think about how we define creativity an selection, and the ultimate stakes when we automate or optimise processes, even for art. Super insightful.
Chris, do you find that you spend more time doing this back and forth iteration with the coding agents than if you wrote the code yourself to begin with?
No definitely not. I’m talking very large changes (1000s of lines) that previously took weeks. However, for certain changes that have more to do with modifying existing behaviour than net new functionality and have high complexity, I will sometimes have to just make the change myself. But this is becoming more and more rare.
Thanks, Chris. Yeah, I'm torn on AI coding assistants... I need to invest the time to re-train my old brain for the new ways :)