洪 民憙 (Hong Minhee) :nonbinary:
@hongminhee@hollo.social

@lmorchard wrote something that stuck with me: AI-assisted coding isn't creating a split among developers. It's revealing one that was always there, just invisible when we all worked the same way.

If you're mourning the loss of the craft itself—the texture of writing code, the satisfaction of an elegant solution—that's real, and no amount of “just adapt” addresses it. You might need to find that satisfaction somewhere else, or accept that work is going to feel different. Frankly, we've been lucky there's been a livelihood in craft up to now.

https://blog.lmorchard.com/2026/03/11/grief-and-the-ai-split/

blog.lmorchard.com

Grief and the AI Split

TL;DR: AI-assisted coding is revealing a split among developers that was always there but invisible when we all worked the same way. I've felt the grief too—but mine resolved differently than I expected, and I think that says something about what kind of developer I've been all along.

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洪 民憙 (Hong Minhee)
@hongminhee@hackers.pub

기술 자체를 애도하는 사람—코드를 쓰는 질감, 우아한 해법의 만족감—에게는 “그냥 적응해”라는 말이 아무 의미가 없다. 그 만족감을 다른 곳에서 찾아야 할 수도 있고, 일이 다르게 느껴질 것을 받아들여야 할 수도 있다. 그리고 솔직히, 지금까지 “장인 정신”에 생계가 걸려 있었다는 것은 운이 좋았던 것이다.

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@lmorchard@masto.hackers.town wrote something that stuck with me: AI-assisted coding isn't creating a split among developers. It's revealing one that was always there, just invisible when we all worked the same way. > If you're mourning the loss of the craft itself—the texture of writing code, the satisfaction of an elegant solution—that's real, and no amount of “just adapt” addresses it. You might need to find that satisfaction somewhere else, or accept that work is going to feel different. Frankly, we've been lucky there's been a livelihood in *craft* up to now. https://blog.lmorchard.com/2026/03/11/grief-and-the-ai-split/

洪 民憙 (Hong Minhee) :nonbinary:
@hongminhee@hollo.social

@lmorchard wrote something that stuck with me: AI-assisted coding isn't creating a split among developers. It's revealing one that was always there, just invisible when we all worked the same way.

If you're mourning the loss of the craft itself—the texture of writing code, the satisfaction of an elegant solution—that's real, and no amount of “just adapt” addresses it. You might need to find that satisfaction somewhere else, or accept that work is going to feel different. Frankly, we've been lucky there's been a livelihood in craft up to now.

https://blog.lmorchard.com/2026/03/11/grief-and-the-ai-split/

blog.lmorchard.com

Grief and the AI Split

TL;DR: AI-assisted coding is revealing a split among developers that was always there but invisible when we all worked the same way. I've felt the grief too—but mine resolved differently than I expected, and I think that says something about what kind of developer I've been all along.