I'm at the opposite end. I feel AI is sucking all the joy out of the profession. Might pivot away and perhaps live a simpler life. Only problem is that I really need the paycheck :(
Show HN: I quit coding years ago. AI brought me back
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Re: Show HN: I quit coding years ago. AI brought me back
#72The table doesn't work (scroll sideways) on my mobile just FWIW
Re: Show HN: I quit coding years ago. AI brought me back
#73Happy for everyone who enjoys it. For me it's the opposite: AI everywhere sucks the joy out of it and I'm seriously starting to consider a career shift after roughly 10 years of writing code for a living.
There seems to be two camps of people: those who love the coding and those who love delivering value/solutions. I am in the latter camp. The happy consumer and the polished product is what gives me satisfaction, the code is just really a vehicle from A to B. It’s a shame for anyone in the first camp who wants a career.
If you really want to deliver polished products, you still have to manually review the code. When I tried actually "vibecoding" something, I got exhausted so fast by trying to keep up with the metric tons of code output by the AI. I think most developers agree that reviewing other people's code is more exhausting mentally than writing your own. So I doubt those who see coding as too mentally straining will take the time to fully review AI written code.
More likely that step is just skipped and replaced with thoughts and prayers.
Re: Show HN: I quit coding years ago. AI brought me back
#74In this sense LLMs are another wave of "end-user programming" like excel formula. This has been the recurring experience of many in these waves.
Ironically, all I see in the website is easily replicable with existing spreadsheet apps. No programming needed.
Re: Show HN: I quit coding years ago. AI brought me back
#75Made with care for accuracy.
I'm not sure how you can claim this on the footer of every page when you're vibe coding these calculators.
Re: Show HN: I quit coding years ago. AI brought me back
#76I don’t like AI for production code, but I love it for ideation and prototyping. I agree. It really allows you to quickly iterate on ideas without being blocked by implementation details.
The OP's code is in production though.
Not to be disrespectful, but OP's code is also a website that already exists literally thousands of times and could be done in any spreadsheet program without any programming at all...
Re: Show HN: I quit coding years ago. AI brought me back
#77Well in my opinion there's nothing wrong with vibe-coding. You can completely use it to make your passion projects. I draw the line when people try to sell their vibe-coded project as something huge, putting people at the risk of potential security breaches while also taking money out of them. Every other day I see ads of companies saying "use our AI and become a millionaire", this kind of marketing from agentic IDEs…
Why do you think vibe code isn’t good enough for real products? Just so long as you have tests that show it functions as expected, why does it matter?
I think vibe coding isn't quite good enough for real products because I usually have 4 AI agents going non-stop. And I do read the code (I read so, so much code), and I give the AI plenty of feedback.
If you just want to build a little web app, or a couple of screens for your phone, you'll probably be fine. (Unless there's money or personal data involved.) It's empowering! Have fun.
But if you're trying to build something that has a whole bunch of moving parts and which isn't allowed to be a trash fire? Someone needs to be paying attention.
Re: Show HN: I quit coding years ago. AI brought me back
#78Happy for everyone who enjoys it. For me it's the opposite: AI everywhere sucks the joy out of it and I'm seriously starting to consider a career shift after roughly 10 years of writing code for a living.
There seems to be two camps of people: those who love the coding and those who love delivering value/solutions. I am in the latter camp. The happy consumer and the polished product is what gives me satisfaction, the code is just really a vehicle from A to B. It’s a shame for anyone in the first camp who wants a career.
Agree with those 2 camps. The latter camp is all cheered up which is nice, but they should be asking the question if their solution is valuable enough to be maintained. If so, you should make all generated code your code, exactly in the form it needs to be according to your deep expertise. If not, congratulations, you have invented throw-away code. Code of conduct: don't throw this code at people from the former camp.
Or to phrase it more succinctly: if you are in camp 2 but don't have the passion of camp 1, you are a threat for the long term. The reverse is dangerous too, but can be offset to a certain extent with good product management.
Re: Show HN: I quit coding years ago. AI brought me back
#79Slightly moving into the other direction, after 17 years of science and tech optimism I see myself turning into a Luddite more and more.
First observation was that communication and social aspects of software seems crucial for success and proliferation.
And next came: that technology seems inept to solve any socio-econimic problems, but rather aggravates them.
Re: Show HN: I quit coding years ago. AI brought me back
#80Made with care for accuracy. I'm not sure how you can claim this on the footer of every page when you're vibe coding these calculators.
Because it's better for marketing. Doesn't matter if it's true.