50 and 60 year old developers posting on Hacker News about how Claude Code has reignited their passion for building software where they focus on solving problems versus the rat race of chasing frameworks is exactly how I feel. I haven’t felt this energized about being in tech in years.
Detractors in the comments argue AI agents take away the craft and fulfillment that they got from coding. Others are also skeptical of becoming unfamiliar with implementation details.
@carnage4life ai coding has indeed opened some areas for me in iot and in home automation. It’s only a mild productivity tool.
However the absolute teeth grinding frustration with the days, sometimes weeks to get any code to actually work, vs the 30s that it spits out something broken takes all the passion away.
I have no motivation or passion for ai code that has no architecture/structure or inspiration to work on it either, so every bit of debugging is just grinding.
It’s not been fun.
Dare Obasanjo
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