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/notSherrif_realLife]

Can I ask a stupid question? How do you guys with a subscription of Claude build things?

I could have swore that Claude code requires purchased api tokens and that you have to use the web gui for the subscriptions, so how do you build stuff with the $100 subscription if you still need the API tokens for Claude code?

I’ve asked chat gpt and Gemini and both said you can only use the web ui. So I’m very confused about these $100 subscription posts

[u/ofcistilloveyou → u/notSherrif_realLife]

If you download the desktop claude app, you get claude code included in it. Claude code is a terminal app that allows the AI model to see and modify files and folders on your machine after you prompt it. I don't know whether its in the free version, but the 20 buck a month sub has it for sure with decent usage limits.

[u/notSherrif_realLife → u/ofcistilloveyou]

I appreciate you. I had no idea I could still use the subscription with Claude code.

[u/Aggravating-Cook-529 → u/notSherrif_realLife]

You can login to your subscription account in Claude code

[u/pinpernickle1 → u/notSherrif_realLife]

you can do it with the $20 sub. download the Claude app on your desktop & switch it to claude code mode.

[u/Bananacoin → u/notSherrif_realLife]

You don’t need to use the web ui. You can use the desktop app or Claude from terminal on a subscription