I'm 60 years old. Claude Code killed a passion

Would you currently trust a bridge designed by a civil engineer using AI for all of their calculations ?

You aren’t knowingly exposing those services to the internet.

FTFY. Furthermore, internal services can still be abused to get data that shouldn't be shared. For example, imagine if your imaginary API was for a HR system, and could be used to determine salary information for staff.

If you aren't considering API security, you're almost bound to make major mistakes, and I'd bet money that most APIs designed and implemented in 2 days have tons of security holes.

I agree with this sentiment as well. Without a doubt, my favorite part of the job is coming up with a solution that just 'feels right', especially when said solution is much cleaner than brute force/naive approach. It sounds cheesy, but it truly is one of my favorite sensations.

I'm the senior-most engineer on my team of about 15. I try to emphasize software craftsmanship, which resonates with some but not all. We have a few engineers who have seemingly become reliant on AI tooling, and I struggle with them. Some of them are trying to push code that they clearly don't understand and aren't reviewing, and I think they're setting themselves up for failure due to lack of growth.

I've always done networking (isp, datacenter, large enterprise), security (networking plus firewall, vpn, endpoint), unix/linux admin, even windoze stuff with active directory, but never any development or programming directly. I was just never wired for it, though I can do ip/cidr/bgp/acl stuff in my head for days. I missed out on higher ed entirely after high school, and I learned along the way what I did after 45 years of tinkering with pc's from apple II on i life.

Right now I'm taking my network and security knowledge in writing an mcp to do network and security tasks enabling agents like claude-code, claude-desktop, codex, openclaw a means of accessing resources indirectly via my mcp, and it's something I could have never done before the advent of AI as I "don't do code". Now I can tell it intimately everything I need/want it to do, and it just literally does it. It's extremely effective too, if not at times aggravating/infuriating.

My biggest gripe is it does everything half ass, but nothing I haven't seen time and again from outsourcing. It feels like the usual contractor slop you might get hiring wipro/infosys or any other offshore development effort, but at least without human idiocy.

AI in general really needs a "don't do half-ass work" option, as it typically feels like I'll get "good enough for government work" sort of results until I kick and slap it at least twice to fix its shortcomings. It invariably feels like it always only gives me half of what I ask for. You can almost tell it's built to not give you everything up front, instead make you work for it.

It's a trap, as a wise man once said.