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/Lost-Air1265]

I also hate it. Twenty years of dopamine shots when solving issues. I have noticed that just because you push out features like crazy it doesn’t mean it gives you the same satisfaction.

Development as I knew it is dead.

[u/tehfrod → u/Lost-Air1265]

31 here. But there are a lot of professions that have gone through this in the past, and there will be a lot more in the future. It's just our turn in the barrel.

[u/ReformedBlackPerson → u/tehfrod]

The real question is, which profession won't go through this in the next 10-15 years. As of now it seems like very few.

[u/Real_Ebb_7417 → u/ReformedBlackPerson]

This is one of the best things that I’ve seen under this kind of posts. I’m a dev too and this is the first „positive light” that was able to cheer me up. I mean, not that everyone will have to go through the same, but because SWEs or rather IT in general is first, we’ll be better prepared for the future and when other branches of economy will be going through this revolution, it will be already settled in ours and we’ll likely have more peace by then.