What happens when the coding becomes the least interesting part of the work
Latest activity Reply by Toshiaki Takeuchi
on 15 Dec 2025 at 18:59
I like this quote, what do you think?
"If the part of programming you enjoy most is the physical act of writing code, then agents will feel beside the point. You’re already where you want to be, even just with some Copilot or Cursor-style intelligent code auto completion, which makes you faster while still leaving you fully in the driver’s seat about the code that gets written.
But if the part you care about is the decision-making around the code, agents feel like they clear space. They take care of the mechanical expression and leave you with judgment, tradeoffs, and intent. Because truly, for someone at my experience level, that is my core value offering anyway. When I spend time actually typing code these days with my own fingers, it feels like a waste of my time."
— Obie Fernandez, What happens when the coding becomes the least interesting part of the work
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One YouTuber talking about vibe coding said, "I was an engineering manager and quit that job to get back to coding. Now I feel like being back to the manager role."
He was demoing the capability in Claude Code to run GitHub actions. It can create a new repo, add code to it, review issues, and act on the issues and generate pull requests. All he was doing was adding issues and reviewing the pull requests and managing the overall project.
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