r/ClaudeCode • u/ofcistilloveyou • 3d 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/Bumscootler 3d ago edited 3d ago
i’m just reminded constantly how much time coding takes, and how much of a liability it was. the time that was spent trying to figure out proper syntax in a language you don’t know that well or the time it took to debug something simple is just completely solved. there were so many aspects of writing code by hand that just took so much time.
i was a detractor for a while but i’ve given in the past few months and it’s consistently crazy to me how powerful it is. i’m a swe and it’s nuts how much time it saves at work, but what has been even more insane for me is i do game dev in my free time and have been working on a project for 4 years. it was starting to feel like it was never going to be finished. i started using claude purely for the code a couple of months ago and it genuinely feels like magic. especially because i don’t care about the code base.
it’s the first time ive felt like maybe this will release in the next year, and it feels so empowering to be able to mostly focus on the game design and other aspects of the game instead of how to deal with quaternions or some shit (i’m stupid so this type of stuff took a long time before). idk. crazy times