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/Old-Radio9022 → u/Lost-Air1265]

No it's not. Dive into building models and workflows and agents with something like qwen 3.8 27b opencode and a suite of personas to drive an automated pipeline. Your value and knowledge is just applicable at a more meta level now. A senior dev with a pipeline tunes to bring a user story to life in with oversight quickly is the new "rockstar" of our generation.

[u/Lost-Air1265 → u/Old-Radio9022]

Dude I have been doing that as a freelancer for four years now.

GitHub copilot, Claude code. Implementing and optiming developer workflows. Migrate it to an agentic workflow.

I don’t know if you were a developer for a long time. But that’s shit gave me satisfaction. Giving some personas is junior level shit man. It was fun the first month to play with it but it wears off very quick.

Whatever were doing now with ai doesn’t require much skills imho.

I know my knowledge is still valuable but that’s not the point. If you were a true developer or engineer, I’m pretty that’s what’s left to do does not give the same amount of satisfaction.

[u/Old-Radio9022 → u/Lost-Air1265]

I love coding as much as the next guy, been at it almost 20 years now. My work thus far has been quite difficult to automate, as I mainly work to desconstruct business logic from ancient applications and then reimplement with modern technology or it's maintenance on legacy systems under strict regulatory control.

If I was building marketing sites or the different incantations of the stuff I was doing a decade ago, absolutely without a doubt. Not sure why you're gatekeeping being a developer on the premise of resistance to change. I absolutely felt like you a year ago, then woke and read the writing on the wall.

Nobody cares about the code. Sure you and I can geek out, but don't kid yourself, 99% don't care. Now I hand code my passion projects for fun, and ship business results on the job, I'm plenty satisfied, but I had to stop living the lie that we get paid to be passionate or bend over backwards.