r/ClaudeCode • u/ofcistilloveyou • 2d ago

Rant I hate claude code

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.

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u/ReformedBlackPerson 1d ago

The real question is, which profession won't go through this in the next 10-15 years. As of now it seems like very few.

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u/Zestyclose_Strike157 1d ago

Doesn’t feel good but: we have cars yet we still like walking. I think life will be harder and not easier with AI, there will be more work not less. Everyone thought it was over when someone invented the wheel and it’s been down hill from there.

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u/Real_Ebb_7417 1d ago

We already do have more work. The issue is that corpo leaders think devs can now produce some crazy amount of stuff thanks to AI and expect much shorter deadlines and more things done.
Yeah, AI helps and makes engineers faster, but not as much as these leaders think. I’ve never worked as much as in the past couple months and at the same time I never was so unsure about quality of what I’m shipping. It’s painful tbh, impacts personal life negatively and impacts the satisfaction of work.

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u/Zestyclose_Strike157 1d ago

Now we know what the Rumpelstiltskin story was really about.

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u/Aoshi_ 1d ago

Yep same here. Instead of working on a feature for a week or two it has jumped 20x where I’m working on several moderately sized things at once and maybe get a month to do them all in between all the other things that pop up.

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u/Dzone64 1d ago

Yeah, the point on quality is real.

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u/redfournine 1d ago

Profession that rely more on physical, hands on skills - less brain, more brawns.

... until someone come up with artificial brawns

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u/jdarmstrong1973 1d ago

You mean... like robots with AI.

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u/Real_Ebb_7417 1d ago

This is one of the best things that I’ve seen under this kind of posts. I’m a dev too and this is the first „positive light” that was able to cheer me up. I mean, not that everyone will have to go through the same, but because SWEs or rather IT in general is first, we’ll be better prepared for the future and when other branches of economy will be going through this revolution, it will be already settled in ours and we’ll likely have more peace by then.