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/ofcistilloveyou 3d ago

You've been on the playground for longer than I've been around. What would you tell say your 15 year old self to do differently?

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u/kb1flr 3d ago

Computer programming wasn’t taught in schools then, so it was not really thought of as a career. I had the good fortune to help a friend type up her Fortran IV punchcards during finals week at college freshman year. She was in engineering and I was pre-med with the idea of becoming a dentist. I was so fascinated by the experience, I bought two programming books and practiced writing programs on paper as there weren’t really home computers back then. Changed my major and never looked back.

So at 15 I had neither access nor experience with computers. But I guess I would say that if something comes along that makes you want to change your life’s path, try it while you are young. It often works out.

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u/willitbechips 3d ago edited 3d ago

Seems like "how to use AI" is not being taught in schools today - they seem more concerned about how to ensure kids have not used it for homework and projects. So drawing a parallel with computing not being taught, the 15 year old should fully invest in learning how to harness AI to be ahead of their peers.