i have lost meaning. nothing feels difficult anymore. earlier, there was so much joy in writing code by hand - finding problems, staying awake for hours just to solve that one silly bug buried deep in the code. coding gave me a lot of joy, but with agentic coding, writing code by hand no longer makes sense - not because i want it that way, but because of the pressure from everyone around you. why struggle for hours when you can finish everything at 100 toks/sec? it has left a dent in that joy i once carried. i wish i could go back to writing pure code with my own hands - no agentic coding at all - but there is no time for that. features need to be shipped quickly, and if you don't keep up, you get crushed by others who do. some might say, "you still have to read the code and figure out if it's correct." that's true, but reviewing something is very different from actually writing it. the neurons fire differently for both - and they fire far more when your fingers are hitting those keys on the keyboard. maybe the craft isn't dead, but it is slowly being asked to wait in the corner - and for those of us who fell in love with the process, not just the output, that silence is louder than any compiler error ever was.

Before you ask AI another dumb coding question… watch this.