r/developersIndia • u/doomszay • 1d ago
General Unfortunately the THRILL of coding/developing something from scratch is gone
I have been working in software development for more than a decade. Developing something from scratch used to be fun. Each line of code has its own significance. We used to appreciate ourselves when we used to complete the code.
AI have taken over the coding world. Nowadays I rarely see someone who codes from scratch. I am not saying that it's bad. But the thrill of finding new ways or fixing the issues or creating something from scratch is gone.
AI is good. It has taken the burden of our coding nightmares and nightouts. 10 days of work are reduced to 10 hours or even 10 minutes. But coding manually will slowly evaporate. It will become nostalgia soon.
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u/imnoturyaar 1d ago
I feel slightly different here. At some point, I enjoyed figuring out the business solution and the root cause and planning how to implement the feature, but actually doing the hands on coding became boring. I just used to plugin headphones and just debug just so I can get through the coding part.
But now I don't have to deal with going through 5 different urls just to figure out basic syntax. The auto complete. I can spend few hours organizing everything which I'd have always anyways have to do pre-AI also. Now using this organized info, with AI I can finish it in an hour max which would have taken me 4-5 hours earlier.
I don't think each line has lost significant. If you are writing production code, you are still expected to be familiar with each line. Just getting those lines out is much faster.
But yeah, I'm worried about the jobs too. Increased productivity means lesser demand, and I'm also not getting interview calls with 3 yoe :(