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

Maybe you don't think it is as creative as you once did?

No. The exact opposite. It makes me hooked to it even more since now I can finally focus on designing the algorithm instead of thinking about releasing memory, converting datatypes, going to stackoverflow to grab the postgresql connection string or whatever. No more calloc/malloc or int to double or pointers. Plus most of the code generated will compile (ok, "will get interpreted" in the case of Python or whatever you see the point) so if you have designed the right algorithm, it's like 90% job done.

Initially, yes. For me, it took the joy out of development. I was at the point of abandoning it but decided to try some different approaches with it. I think it’s here to stay and felt there had to be some way to leverage it without it making me depressed.

The way I’m using it now I figured out through trial and error. I form a mental model of what I want from start to finish. I then break that down into pieces, and use AI (when appropriate) to generate the code for each piece in sequence. This essentially leaves me in power of the entire development process, but the AI helps me produce the syntax much quicker than I could without it.

Really want to know what these "more interesting bits" are that GPT-5-thinking and other models of this calibre cannot do. Unless of course you choose to do them even though these models can in fact do them, in which case, please do share regardless.

Complete opposite. I think Gosucoder said it best; let be badly paraphrase.

AI coding removed the bad part of coding. Lets you handle all the fun part; and you can of course always go and 'code' yourself, you dont have to prompt everything.

The new "developer" skill is ensuring that you're building a reliable app that isnt a house of cards. AI will tend to give you bare minimum. You cant have that, your prompts need to be better.