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Re: Show HN: I quit coding years ago. AI brought me back

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Post by wickedsight »

leoedin wrote: post #142
cube00 wrote: post #75

Made 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.

This is more than just a bad side project - it's borderline malicious. How confident is the OP that every single one of these 60 calculators work all the time, with all edge cases? Because if someone is on your website using your calculator, they are putting trust in you. If it's wrong, it could have downstream impacts on them. I hope every single one has a comprehensive set of tests with good edge cases. But realist…

> How confident is the OP that every single one of these 60 calculators work all the time, with all edge cases?

The compound interest calculator, which is their 'favorite page', already shows an incorrect value in the graph. So my faith in the other calculators isn't great. I also kinda doubt OP's story of them using that page all the time, since it took me about 20 seconds to find this issue.

Re: Show HN: I quit coding years ago. AI brought me back

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Post by codenighter »

really appreciate your work sir, I too believe in compounding. But still I don't know why sometimes it feels hard continuing.. still learning coding the old way. I feel, someday it will give me some edge, I just love coding the old way. Sometimes I feel anxious and kind of unsure about my approach but I have decided to continue what I am doing as I am too young in my 20's so I think it's ok to explore till I enjoy doing it. Thank you for sharing your work sir. Hope you keep learning and growing.

Re: Show HN: I quit coding years ago. AI brought me back

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Post by pydry »

entrox wrote: post #229
pydry wrote: post #167

Earlier quoted context omitted.

>It is an art. And it is very disheartening to see people without any skills to behave the way they do They've even got their own slogan: "you're probably just not prompting it properly"

> They've even got their own slogan: "you're probably just not prompting it properly" That's the same energy as telling other professions to "just learn to code, bro" once they are displaced by AI. But I guess it doesn't feel nice once the shoe is on the other foot, though. If nobody values the quality of human art, why should anybody value the quality of human code?

>That's the same energy as telling other professions to "just learn to code, bro" once they are displaced by AI. But I guess it doesn't feel nice once the shoe is on the other foot, though.

It's the exact same neoliberal elites who told everyone to code one year and told them they'd all be automated of a job the next year.

I dunno who exactly you think you're being condescending towards.

Re: Show HN: I quit coding years ago. AI brought me back

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Post by voidUpdate »

greenchair wrote: post #265
voidUpdate wrote: post #162

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I guess I'm an outlier then because I actually like programming, and I've never wanted to be a manager, even a manager of an LLM. At least half the fun of making software is doing the programming

You aren't an outlier. Most of us got into coding because we enjoyed coding, not writing documentation that talks about coding.

It feels like I am these days, with the amount of posts on here about how LLM-powered programming is the future and everyone should be doing it and it will make us all 10x developers

Re: Show HN: I quit coding years ago. AI brought me back

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Post by mfro »

codenighter wrote: post #302

really appreciate your work sir, I too believe in compounding. But still I don't know why sometimes it feels hard continuing.. still learning coding the old way. I feel, someday it will give me some edge, I just love coding the old way. Sometimes I feel anxious and kind of unsure about my approach but I have decided to continue what I am doing as I am too young in my 20's so I think it's ok to explore till I enjoy do…

Keep it up. The more you let AI do it for you, the less knowledge you retain.

Re: Show HN: I quit coding years ago. AI brought me back

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Post by Kapura »

sumedh wrote: post #85
cube00 wrote: post #75

Made 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.

You can still test it for accuracy?

ah, the thing every person does when searching for a calculator: verify that it can actually do the math, a thing computers were historically good at from about the 1960s until within the past few years.

do you understand how bad it is when you search for software and you cannot trust it to do what you ask of it? it's bad!

Re: Show HN: I quit coding years ago. AI brought me back

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Post by 9rx »

sodapopcan wrote: post #285
vim-guru wrote: post #71

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 :(

I'm in a similar position. At some point in the past few months I just stopped coding in my hobby time altogether. I'm almost 45 and not sure what else I could do, though. Hope you figure something out!

> I'm almost 45 and not sure what else I could do, though.

I am of the same age. I have some good ideas on where to go, but dread the grind to get things moving. When I was in my teens and 20s the grind that got me to where am now was fun, but doing it again looks far less appealing now.

Re: Show HN: I quit coding years ago. AI brought me back

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Post by nunez »

voidUpdate wrote: post #134
j1436go wrote: post #56

Happy 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.

I'm starting to think that people don't want to be programmers anymore, they want to be managers who delegate their work to someone or something else, and then come back, critique the work, and do another loop

And this is exactly the problem. Developers are happily passing off their biggest valuable asset to, essentially, their replacements while, at the same time, convincing themselves that them playing the "ideas guy" or "conductor" roles is the real value they bring to the table.

Like, get real!

I feel like I'm rapidly going insane. It wasn't that long ago when many people in this forum would boldly exclaim that their software development skills were their capital and take pride in their ability to build stuff. It also wasn't that long ago when the "ideas guys" were a meme here.

We're ceding almost all of our bargaining power because programming "was never valuable." And we're doing it with smiles from ear to ear.

Re: Show HN: I quit coding years ago. AI brought me back

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Post by magicalist »

1dom wrote: post #82
inferiorhuman wrote: post #70

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Of course I wouldn't vibe code in a serious production project, but I'd still use an AI agent, except I'd make sure I understand every line it puts out. So you value your ability to churn out insignificant dreck over the ability of others to use the internet? Because that's the choice you're making. All of the sites that churn your browser for a few seconds because they're trying to block AI DDoS bots, that's worth y…

This is such a... unique angle. Of all the things to get angry at AI for, web crawlers and the impact on cloudflare outages are the ones that really grinds your gears?

Not unique at all. eg a few days ago https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46608840

Re: Show HN: I quit coding years ago. AI brought me back

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Post by withinboredom »

Alive-in-2025 wrote: post #89
ikidd wrote: post #21

Same here. Farmer now, former network engineer and software project lead, but I stopped programming almost 20 years ago. Now I build all sorts of apps for my farm and organizations I volunteer for. I can pound out an app for tracking sample locations for our forage associations soil sample truck, another for moisture monitoring, a fleet task/calendar/maintenance app in hours and iterate on them when I think of featur…

love to hear about what tech is like on farms today. do you run into the problems with fixing tractors and equipment and its all locked down with drm and you cant fix it without hacking the software?

One of my mechanics friends saved up like 15-20k just to be able to service these things. He just goes farm-to-farm and works on their tractors. The work is local, but you got to be able to get the tools and knowledge to use them.
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