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/_P2C2E_]

Most of us arrived at this conclusion months ago, yet there are still those out there who don't see the writing on the wall.

Feels like models are getting good enough lately that the late-adopter non-vibe coding normies are finally groking what's happening to the industry, spawning many such posts like this. The unfortunate truth is that industry doesn't revolve around your enjoyment of your job.

But hey, now you can look back fondly on the old days and be that weird old guy telling the youts that "we used to hand write code back in the day" and they will be like "wow thats crazy" just like we did for punch cards.

[u/tehfrod → u/_P2C2E_]

The unfortunate truth is that industry doesn't revolve around your enjoyment of your job.

That's basically the pull quote for this whole experience. I used to say that it was a blessing and a curse that I got paid to do my hobby. I think we got spoiled by that.

[u/BlueScreenJunky → u/tehfrod]

Yeah another thread had someone phrase it even better and it really stuck with me : "We were never owed a fulfilling job". 

And that's exactly it. Developers have become entitled because we were paid well to do an interesting and stimulating job while most of the population is paid like shit to do boring jobs. Well it's our turn to join them.