Programmers Are Spellcasters Now

There used to be a time when you coded, and it really mattered how fast you typed and that you were very familiar with all the various shortcuts on the computer. I think that era of programmers is probably coming to an end.

Nowadays when I program, I feel more like a wizard casting spells than I do an engineer, hunched over working a technical machine.

I still think people are sleeping on dictation. It is so good, and it is the fastest input to the computer. I pretty much exclusively talk to my LLMs, never type.