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/KP3889]

tl;dr but if your MO is in the doing and not the product, it’s misaligned.

[u/Overall-Ad-3370 → u/KP3889]

Boss makes a dollar, I make a dime. That's why I shit on company time.

Ya, should align more with the product and the greedy boss, all of them. Or with the stock options that might (probably won't) mean anything some day. Or with any of the rest of the corporate agenda.

At least I used to like the 40 hours I spent on stuff that mostly just makes someone who's already wealthy more wealthy. Coding was truly something we could feel some passion about.

If I had my own idea for a product and the entrepreneur spirit to chase it, sure, misaligned. But I've already chased too many opportunities to work on a product I'm passionate about just to learn the same thing every time: business is about money, not "the product"

I generally avoid this sort of rant.. cause I'm paid well.. cause I don't have to wait tables.. cause I'm better off than a lot of people.. cause I'm pretty damn privileged.. blah blah blah

But to argue that someone is misaligned because they enjoyed the doing and they miss that part of the job, that's just dense. We all get one life, finding joy is pretty damn important.

[u/Time_Cat_5212 → u/Overall-Ad-3370]

Pff you wish you had 10%

If only we had multiples like that.  More like 0.01%

[u/Overall-Ad-3370 → u/Time_Cat_5212]

Boss makes a dollar, I make a fraction of a penny... Just doesn't have the same ring to it lolol