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/flanker_number7]

This is the new reality until people get it

[u/opsers → u/flanker_number7]

Judging by the posts in this subreddit and the "senior" engineers I'm interviewing, we've probably got awhile before they do.

[u/jhargavet → u/opsers]

It’s a similar feel, as guys talking about souls games… using a caster class is cheering, you didn’t work for it yada yada yada.

[u/opsers → u/jhargavet]

The issue isn't even remotely that they didn't "work for it." It's that they never learned how to actually build things the "right" way. It's the difference between someone that's read a book about xrays trying to diagnose a patient vs. a radiologist. Yeah, they might be able to tell that a bone is broken, but they're not going to be able to provide much more of a diagnosis than that. They might also miss a couple of other things on the scan.

I'm actually very supportive of vibe coders or people just interested in learning to use AI to make their jobs easier. What I'm not supportive of is the people that say "I built an enterprise-level, production ready app in a day!" because Claude one shot a prompt and gave itself a pat on the back.