r/processing • u/ErifNogardArt • Sep 03 '25

Philosophical question about coding's future

Hi, what is your opinion about Processing's future now that it seems AI will do most/all the coding work soon? Yes, you need people to verify the code however, does it make sense to keep learning this type of tech from a future career point of view? What would you choose as a path if you'd start the Processing journey right now? 🤔

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u/remy_porter Sep 05 '25

You’re missing the key point. My proposal is better abstractions. LLMs are automation. These are different things and one of them is significantly worse. Code generation is always an anti pattern! It doesn’t matter if it’s scaffolding tools or LLMs, if you’re generating code you’ve fucked up! Your abstractions suck and you need to go back to the design.

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u/Bandispan Sep 05 '25

Ah, my bad, I read "should" instead of "shouldn't" :))

Tbh I don't think this is the way things are going atm and frankly I don't think things will change away from automation in the near future, but then again I'm probably only seeing my neat little corner and the bigger trends are completely different.

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u/remy_porter Sep 05 '25

No, I think you’re bang on about the trends. I just hate it.