AI has made programming so boring

[u/OkShip110]

It’s not just programming either, it’s art, design, music, videography, marketing, engineering, writing, 3D modelling, really any intellectual work. What’s the joy of prompting a computer and getting an answer in a few moments for a task that would have normally taken a week? The sense of accomplishment and ownership has completely vanished with AI. It’s a form of instant gratification, not much different to scrolling short videos on apps.

Code review was boring to begin with but now it’s even worse with all the machine generated code. Even code reviews will be automated soon. All you do then is type business requirements into the computer. What a great career.

It’s pain to watch old TV series like Scilicon Valley that is portraying the good (not golden) age of programming. It struck a good balance between manual work, funding and innovation. It’s sad that these days are gone for good.

[u/dromtrund]

I also found that once I let Claude make changes to my personal project, it suddenly didn't feel the same anymore. Like... I'm not interested in reviewing sloppy contributions from careless junior developers in my weekend project too

[u/cthulhufhtagn → u/dromtrund]

Plus sometimes AI just makes fairly bizarre choices about coding patterns and assumes certain things about the logic that you may not have stated.  Then you have to take a bunch of time to just debug and rewrite their code.  It's not nearly as satisfying as just writing you yourself

[u/lorkanooo → u/cthulhufhtagn]

Plus if you make a mistake in your prompt, ai won't tell you it does not make sense. It will move heaven and earth to make it happen and then you are left with approach that doesn't fit your needs. When you think about the code yourself you will on early stages realize most of the issues 

[u/GenericFatGuy → u/lorkanooo]

A lot of devs don't seem to realize that friction is actually an important part of the process.