Hacker News story: Ask HN: Am I old?

Ask HN: Am I old?
I don't think I'm old, but I get great joy in writing a simple utility function by hand , without ai . Just yesterday I wrote a function that removes the ending punctuation from a string, if present, and adds a period instead. I also wrote onDone, onSubmit, and onCancel handlers using more than my tab key. Yet it seems to me that this is quickly becoming the stuff of an older generation, of people who move slowly , of a dying breed who care about silly things like craft and form. Don't get me wrong--I'm all over AI, especially at work where speed also counts. But there's something so satisfying in writing code without AI that it makes me wonder if, in fact, I'm quickly becoming irrelevant. 4 comments on Hacker News.
I don't think I'm old, but I get great joy in writing a simple utility function by hand , without ai . Just yesterday I wrote a function that removes the ending punctuation from a string, if present, and adds a period instead. I also wrote onDone, onSubmit, and onCancel handlers using more than my tab key. Yet it seems to me that this is quickly becoming the stuff of an older generation, of people who move slowly , of a dying breed who care about silly things like craft and form. Don't get me wrong--I'm all over AI, especially at work where speed also counts. But there's something so satisfying in writing code without AI that it makes me wonder if, in fact, I'm quickly becoming irrelevant.

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