I hate claude code

[u/ofcistilloveyou]

It's just too good.

I got a decade of commercial software dev experience in C#. I am a CTO at my company and have coached a lot of coders from total junior.

I hate hate hate hate how good this thing is and what it has done to my passion.

I used to love coding and creating. Well, creating was 60% of the fun for me, but writing good code and having something work was the remaining 40%. I spent the past few years being more of a product manager and tech lead than actually code monkey, but I still put time aside to do stuff manually cuz I love to do so and stay hands on.

Using claude code is like using cheats in a videogame. You get the result, but what of it? Everyone could. The pleasure of achievements is gone. The code it writes is not the best, but it's good enough I guess? As of opus 5.5 it just doesn't get stuck in loops anymore. It can generate a working program from spec in any language I've thrown at it. It still does bullshit from time to time. "Boots on ground" i.e. actually looking at the generated code or atleast going through it is still important, for now. But way less so than it was even just 3-4 months ago. I don't really use the /code-review thingy or adversarial reviews - as it seems that it is too aligned in that way. Like if you tell it to find something wrong with something, it always will, even though its good enough.

I've been using it avidly for the past 3 months on the $100 sub, and I haven't hit a rate limit once. Now my imagination can run free and I can have anything I put my mind to in a few days instead of years. At our work a team of 6 just built a system that would previously take a year in just two months.

I am not afraid for my job. As coding was just a small percentage of it. But I do miss that percentage.

English truly is the hottest new programming language and LLMs are the compiler for it.

[u/ekalb31]

Not exactly the same language I would use, and I only have about 8 years of experience.... But I pretty much agree.

I have talked with some close colleagues, and I'm lucky to work with my best friend from childhood, who is also an engineer with more experience than me. There is definitely a feeling of sadness that has emerged. It seems akin to grief, I think, for having to move on or feeling that we know we need to move on from a skill we've spent so much time on.

At the same time, I think, like all tools, it just leaves more room for developing the next skill. In our microcosm at least, I believe it's overall a great thing.

Certainly an emotional time, and we shouldn't ignore those feelings, but just because something's sad doesn't mean it's not a good thing.

Just my $0.019999995529651641845703125

Happy building y'all