<div dir="auto">Hi Roman,<div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">I hear you. I have always preferred to do things myself, and I genuinely thought I was, until a friend of mine mentioned the Arduino libraries.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">There is more abstraction in those than anybody would ever expect. Actually as with much of the Arduino ecosystem nothing is what it seems...</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Doug </div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote gmail_quote_container"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Fri, 24 Apr 2026, 4:27 am Roman Sowa via Synth-diy, <<a href="mailto:synth-diy@synth-diy.org">synth-diy@synth-diy.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">My thoughts exactly. Even long before AI I always felt the need to do <br>
everything myself, be it programming or manufacturing, you name it. For <br>
once it scares me to use parts of the code that I don't know what it <br>
does because it was written by someone else (or AI) and I really like to <br>
know exactly how the thing I'm making is doing what it's doing in every <br>
detail.<br>
<br>
There's not many years of any career ahead of me so I don't have to <br>
compete with everybody.<br>
<br>
Roman<br>
<br>
<br>
W dniu 2026-04-23 o 19:45, Aaron B. via Synth-diy pisze:<br>
> On Thu, 23 Apr 2026 05:14:49 -0400<br>
> Brother Theo via Synth-diy <<a href="mailto:synth-diy@synth-diy.org" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">synth-diy@synth-diy.org</a>> wrote:<br>
><br>
>> It is a brave new world. Should we feel sorry for the coders?<br>
> I guess it depends on what the goal is.<br>
><br>
> I learned how to program because it was fascinating. The mental<br>
> challenge of figuring things out, the journey of managing a code<br>
> base as it evolves and grows, the reward of watching it do it's job and<br>
> work are all things I find valuable.<br>
><br>
> You could ask one of these things to do it for you and get to that end<br>
> state faster, sure. But to me at least, it feels like asking your older<br>
> brother to beat the final boss on that video game: feels empty and<br>
> hollow. I didn't get any better. The result isn't "mine."<br>
><br>
<br>
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