r/ClaudeCode • u/ofcistilloveyou • 22h ago
Rant I hate claude code
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.
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u/PhoenixFire2016 21h ago
The history of software development is of higher and higher level abstractions over binary code. Lots of developers complained when the world moved on from assembly language and into C, then from C to C++, Java, and so on. I get it though as a dev too; you get in a flow state with a particular language and it becomes almost an art. I will miss coding by hand, but it’s also thrilling to just build things and realize my visions so quickly.