> Code always was, it's supposed to be malleable. … You can always rewrite the code.
This isn’t capturing the spirit or the essence of the metaphor. chipping away at marble or whittling has this locality to it that’s keen but myopic. Molding with clay isn’t so detail oriented, you can literally close your eyes and focus on shape, same with turning on a lathe although I wouldn’t suggest closing your eyes.
there is such a thing as being precise without being detailed or local. Before LLMs you did this with test suites techniques maybe, and a few automated refactoring tools, CSTs and AST work, sometimes macros and other metaprogramming. Yeah it happened but fair to say it was rare and difficult. Everyone is/can be a sculptor now
This isn’t capturing the spirit or the essence of the metaphor. chipping away at marble or whittling has this locality to it that’s keen but myopic. Molding with clay isn’t so detail oriented, you can literally close your eyes and focus on shape, same with turning on a lathe although I wouldn’t suggest closing your eyes.
there is such a thing as being precise without being detailed or local. Before LLMs you did this with test suites techniques maybe, and a few automated refactoring tools, CSTs and AST work, sometimes macros and other metaprogramming. Yeah it happened but fair to say it was rare and difficult. Everyone is/can be a sculptor now