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New comment by krawat3 in "How to keep enjoying programming in a world of LLMs"

krawat3 — Sat, 26 Sep 2026 10:51:01 +0000

> Who likes typing code, writing boilerplate, reading bad documentation for nights looking for that small thing, asking around in forums, reading dependency source code, writing trivial unit/ui tests.

I, for one, liked it. I decided to pursue a career as a software engineer because, for all the downsides, I actually enjoyed working with code so closely. It really allowed me to learn and know the code that I wrote.

Whenever I'm using LLMs for code generation, the one huge downside I notice, is that even if I review everything line by line, I don't get the same "I know precisely how it works, because I wrote it" feeling.

I really wonder what the implications of this will be. For instance, if the young devs who are just entering the field will actually be able to write code on their own? Or maybe it will truly not be needed a few years from now?

New comment by krawat3 in "AWS: Inaccurate Estimated Billing Data – $1.7 billion"

krawat3 — Fri, 17 Jul 2026 12:10:46 +0000

Same here. I got an email with a bill of $233 million and an estimated $433 million until the end of the month. I panicked and nuked my entire setup (which wasn't used that much, anyway, the alert threshold was $1) - I really wonder how many people did the same.

It's been 2 hours and I still haven't fully calmed down.

New comment by krawat3 in "A giant European telescope rises as U.S. rivals await rescue"

krawat3 — Tue, 31 Oct 2023 22:09:22 +0000

Tom Scott recently posted a great, 30-minute video about this telescope. Highly recommended.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QqRREz0iBes