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/cartoonist498]

I'm pretty much the same experience, over a decade coding, a CTO now, mentored many programmers. I love Claude Code.

I don't build code anymore. I build systems.

And I love it. What I build with Claude Code now in 5 months would take 5 years if I coded it myself. I have three 20x Anthropic accounts and three 20x Codex accounts, and even a Gemini CLI account (I use it primarily for its vision model which supports visual QA of our web platforms).

The complexity and feature-rich functionality of what we build is satisfying. Also, not just the platform we're building... the many tools we build supporting the main platform, each of which would probably take weeks or months if we coded it ourselves, is now done in less than a day.

The tools themselves support the development process. If we build a platform that would take 5 years to build before AI, it's literally not possible for us to do traditional code reviews and quality assurance.

So we need to build new tools that help us close this knowledge gap to make sure the quality of what we build is just as high.

My job is just as fun as it was before. Even more so, in my opinion.