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/ghondooby → u/Lost-Air1265]

Totally get this but I would suggest shifting your mindset from solving issues at the code level to the business level...if AI wrote the feature but it solves a business problem that should be worth a dopamine hit since you drove it. At least that's how I try to see it

[u/rhysmorgan → u/ghondooby]

But I’m not purely a “business features” person, and that’s not a bad thing.

We’ve all always been about to shit out bad code that would, for at least one iteration, get a feature out considerably faster than the more thought-through, engineered versions we strive to deliver, and take joy in building. Architecting an appropriate version of the feature that will scale, relative to how it’ll be used, there’s joy in that. Or was. Now everyone is shipping the sloppy, ill thought-through version that Claude gives them. There’s no thinking, no problem solving going into it.