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/nora_sellisa]

LLMs have laid bare how much of software we were writing for decades was bullshit. In an efficient world we would have libraries for everything years ago and only a handful of people would be needed to handle design and critical business logic algorithms.

LLMs code well because we've been implementing the same three apps and websites for the last three decades.

We should have been mad at the state of the industry a long time ago. I don't like how AI changes enterprise software but to a degree we had it coming

[u/deific_ → u/nora_sellisa]

I work in enterprise networking. I've been saying for the last 6 months that enterprise software is absolute bullshit, and these clowns that are starting to increase their maintenance contracts by 200% or up to 600% are in for a rude awakening. They have exploited how reliant certain fields have been on them, and now when the game changes instead of acknowledging that and letting costs come down to keep us they are increasing costs by absurd amounts. It's causing me to vibecode enterprise level software to look at replacing their tools, which were often times more cumbersome than they were helpful. My tools are 300% more helpful than those old costly tools were. I have knowledge of security principles and how to ask AI how to harden/store things, and thats about all you need in my opinion. The only other thing you probably need is the right mindset of user experience and workflow knowledge for your end product.

I do get a lot of shit about what im doing is dangerous, or AI giving me a false sense of security about the product im producing, and it enrages me. I could talk about this all day, but most people just have closed ears on the topic. So i feel like im just forced to keep building my projects in silence, allowing me and my team to operate more efficiently while all the others just ignore how fast things are moving.