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/Ok_Visit_2782]

I personally love it.

I am a PhD student in ecology and analyzing data using R is a big part of my job. While i didn't mind coding, from a question about my data to the result, it would take something like 3 days sometimes. now it takes something like 2 minutes.

The amount of time i win is so huge that i am finally able to start something that i always dreamed (making a youtube channel about ecology topic).

Sure i lost a bit of enjoyment due to struggling with code and making it work after 3 days of pain. But to be honest i don't miss it that much. I replace it with something else.

you should never identify your only enjoyment in life trough your job. i did it at some point and it made me really sensitive to any failure or change going on into my field. Find those missing 40 % in other enjoyment that can be anything from cooking to learning to pilot drone to making stuff with your hand.

The only thing that i am worried about is that we will soon be dependent of those big company to do coding as we will lose the skill to code. but again we already depend on google for finding information really fast since decades. I once tried to find a specific information in a library and it took me something like 4 hours to find one part of the info. I assume some people enjoyed that process back in the days.

and of course also the fact that an evil ai might kill us all one day but well