Ask HN: Did modern AI's coding abilities make you lose interest in programming?

It's made me uninterested in working in tech professionally, but I still write code on my own without delegating an easy and enjoyable part to a nondeterministic and overconfident junior.

The opposite for me I think.

The parts I don't like about coding are figuring out little details, or figuring out 'how to do X thing' that I've never done before when I'm not really sure where to start.

I have fun with the logic and making things work how I want them to work, and getting an end result that I like.

So it's been nice having something I can give details on what I want the end result to be, and getting suggestions on ways to get there. Or just have it figure out silly little issues for me.

I haven’t been “interested in programming” for decades probably since I started doing it professionally. It was, is and always has been a method to get companies with money to give me some of that money to exchange for food and shelter and to support my hobbies and life outside of work.

I like the design aspect of implementations. But coding has always been drudgery. LLMs have removed a lot of that drudgery. I just test the output and read it for correctness, see if it’s well formed etc.

Same for me; love it for learning, researching and debating things - programming and software design included :)

1. I no longer write demo code, to prove skills. It's too easily replicated by someone with an AI account.

2. I used to engage small purpose-built DSL's, languages, and systems because they were easy to adopt. Now they're at a strong disadvantage for lack of AI coverage.

3. I focus a lot more on value to the customer; opportunity is now the limiting factor, so I have the product manager hat on most of the time. So I actually do less coding, pruning almost everything that I used to do just to see if I could.

4. I do try harder problems and techniques, because with AI I can typically get to a MVP I can validate and iterate (i.e., it minimizes the stage where nothing is really working). Sometimes it works, and sometimes it just gets blocked; it's more like hunting than gardening or building.

Overall, it's made skills matter less and opportunity/connections matter more, and those are mostly outside my control. That makes it generally de-powering because though I can do much more, the value of what I can do is diminished by a larger factor.