How to keep enjoying programming in a world of LLMs
- ID
- 29080
- Status
- summarized
- Published
- 26 Sep 2026, 5:41 PM
- Fetched
- 27 Sep 2026, 7:41 PM
- Provider
- Hacker News
- Category
- dev-community
- Original URL
- https://discourse.haskell.org/t/how-to-keep-enjoying-programming-in-a-world-of-llms/14705
- Source URL
- https://hnrss.org/best
Summary
- Score
- 6.0
- Created
- 27 Sep 2026, 7:42 PM
- Tags
- Audience
- developersvibe_codersai_ml_learners
What happened
A Haskell Community Discourse thread titled "How to keep enjoying programming in a world of LLMs" (posted Sep 18, tagged llm-use) drew 28.9k views, 61 likes and 13 replies from 9 users, and it was surfaced on Hacker News where the discussion thread hit 236 points and 277 comments. The excerpt supplied here contains only the thread header, view/like counts and participant list — the actual argument of the post is not included, so its specific claims cannot be summarised from this text.
Why it matters
The only hard signal available is engagement shape: 28.9k views against 61 likes and 13 replies on the Haskell forum, versus 277 comments on the Hacker News thread — people are reading this and arguing elsewhere rather than replying in place. If you want the substance, the HN comment thread is where the volume is; the original post's argument is not in the text provided, so don't treat any summary of it as verified.
Discussion angle
Go around the room: name one task you deliberately stopped handing to an LLM because doing it by hand was the point, and one you will never go back on — then compare whether the split is about enjoyment or about correctness.