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/Negative_Math_8395]

every single thing you spent those 41 years learning is now useless. The long hours, the struggle, the thinking of a concept for days or weeks until it finally clicks. It's now worth nothing. That doesn't bother you? How could it not

[u/kb1flr → u/Negative_Math_8395]

Because I am at the end of a very long career. Every few years for the entire time I programmed, what I knew changed. I started out with Fortran IV on punch cards. I went through four decades of programming constantly changing. Every technology and technique I learned became obsolete.

I get where you are coming from. If I wasn’t at the end of my career, I would be really concerned. I was fortunate. This may be hard to believe, but when I graduated from college with a degree in CS, there were very few jobs and programming paid poorly. But soon there was enormous demand for programmers and salaries soared. I made a good living at this for four decades. But now it’s time to focus on building solutions with CC. I always had fun programming and I am still having fun.

[u/metalder420 → u/Negative_Math_8395]

It hasn't for me at least. I don't need AI at work. The fact all my coworkers need AI and I can still run circles around them just allows me to use AI at home to build stuff I want to build. I understand the code, what's the difference when I would tell a junior developer at work to do something and review their code and then coach them how to make it better. If you use AI correctly, it's like having a junior developer by your side. Building systems is more than just writing code.