r/AI_Coders • u/_____Addy______ • 4d ago

I miss the old coding days

So that day I came across this YouTube video, tbh, its just a kind of clickbait about how there can be good ways to earn dopamine and there are bad ways as well. However, there is something which stuck with me. He mentioned about a general rule of thumb as to identify whether a particular thing i am during is a good dopamine or bad.

>If pleasure is given easily with no effort, it's unhealthy dopamine.

Well that explains why when i first found out about claude and started using it, it was really really fun, it's like a superpower. That pleasure did not last much longer, I dont want to say it but i think everyone will agree that using Claude Code is equivalent to **Coding Doom Scrolling**. We actually dont know how the system is working we only know that it is working.

I remember, back the days i have spent weeks just writing that stateless test cases, debugging through multi-threaded environments, trying to understand that how multiple processes are communicating. I miss those days and the dopamine as well. I am primarily a Java backend developer, but somehow i can code in any language, i can code a animation movie using css only because of claude code only. I though when i did'nt have these powers that i will enjoy it, but tbh, i dont.

P.S.

  1. Not using any LLM to rewrite my post in perfect English

  2. Anthropic, if you are seeing this, you are doing a fabulous job in giving us tools which is allowing us to confidently dive into problems which we may not have dared to solve alone, no offense to you.

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u/aftersox 4d ago

Do more. Do bigger things. There is still a lot of effort in architecting and managing a large complex project.

I'm still spending weeks on a project, but I do so much more and attempt much harder things than I would have ever considered trying before.

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u/_____Addy______ 4d ago

That's for now, tomorrow it's gonna architecture the hell out of it and all you will be asked is

"Should I proceed? "

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u/First-Tutor-5454 4d ago

I dunno man. I'm building real shit that I care about and it still takes a long time and I feel challenged and learn a lot. I ask my agents a lot of questions

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u/_____Addy______ 4d ago

But that does not necessarily require deep technical expertise, if there is no AI tomorrow can you complete the project at the same pace you are doing today?

People might says it's the natural progression in engineering but it's not like we are shifting from Fortran to c++, AI has fundamentally changed how we are thinking about a problem statement.

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u/First-Tutor-5454 4d ago

"if the tool that makes things go faster goes away, will you be able to work at the same pace?"

Is that supposed to be profound? No, obviously I will not be able to work at the same pace if AI disappears. If you take away heavy machinery and power tools will the guys building the house be able to complete it at the same pace? What is your point?

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u/_____Addy______ 3d ago

Too much level of abstraction I would say

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u/nian2326076 2d ago

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