Comment by lokimedes
1 month ago
There may be a developmental arc to this. I once enjoyed programming, in all its forms. I loved to express my ideas as projects. Now after three decades of programming, I have seen 95% of the problems I have to solve in any given project before, and that enjoyment is no longer there. So for me, Claude Code is simply excellent. I was once a Systems Engineer, so writing specs, requirements and architecture documents is second nature to me, and I can easily review the code it comes with - but I no longer need to write CURD, boilerplate and all that jazz, not to mention managing dependencies and version creep in libraries.
For an old grey beard, this is actually fine, but if you're still in love with coding, it must be a loss.
I find that for those fun cases where I encounter an interesting problem, there's nothing stopping me from diving in so there's no loss there. I actually enjoy brainstorming with an LLM, too. Exploring and vetting solutions is great fun. I'm still right there in the code, close to the solutions, reviewing, revising. I think it depends on how you choose to utilize the LLM, and how prepared you are to set them aside here and there. You can have the best of both worlds.