limeMar 8
Dare Obasanjo

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.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47282777&media_id=3848026138765031916_63436162246&media_author_id=63436162246&source_quote_media_id=3848026138765031916&utm_source=ig_text_post_permalink

Mar 8 at 11:04amWeb
Show threadSteve LoughranMar 8
@carnage4life maybe it's because spare time code is learning rather than JIRA
Show threadcéline didoneMar 8
@[email protected] This is also how I felt at the beginning. I’m a bit more conflicted now.

On the one hand, I do get to focus on the problem solving part, which I love. On the other, I’ve found over time that I don’t feel as much accomplishment. Somehow more alienated from the result?

I can’t quite express what I feel: but I see myself and others take an attitude of “we build because we can”, and miss a sense of curating what problems to solve and how. I have an uneasy feeling that we’re about to get a huge amount of cookie cutter tools that will drown out truly exceptional and unique work.

Because of this I’ve decided to stop using it for personal projects. (Obviously everyone is different and has different goals and motivations, and I might be wrong anyway)
Show threaddr2chaseMar 8
@ruben @carnage4life Similar. Haven't had a chance to use them for own work, because still employed. But "curating what problems to solve and how" is an interesting question. Curating nowadays is mostly profit-driven.
Show threadJ.P. StewartMar 8

@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.

Show threadColman ReillyMar 8

@carnage4life maybe they should have had the fucking sense to not go chasing frameworks in the first place. Fucking fashion victims.

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