Comment by ryandvm
7 hours ago
This. I hate that Claude Code is taking the fun part of my job, but the reality is that Claude Code Opus 5 can one-shot a script in 15 seconds that would have taken me 45 minutes to write.
I don't begrudge the business for making the prudent choice of making me use AI, I just sort of lament that what I spent years enjoying and getting good at was so utterly derivative that it was perfect for the LLMs. It would be insulting if it weren't just a fact.
Every time you don’t write the script you lose a little of the ability to do so.
Just like if you don’t read you will lose the ability to.
These skills are not innate to us and can be forgotten over time.
I wonder if it will get to the point where people don’t even know what to ask for. Or how to judge if what the machine produces could have been better. Or if it does what they think it does.
> Just like if you don’t read you will lose the ability to.
This is wholly untrue.
Not wholly. It’s under study. I don’t mean in the sense that you can’t read words anymore. I mean in the sense that comprehension and attention go down.