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I'm 60 years old. Claude Code killed a passion
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Re: I'm 60 years old. Claude Code killed a passion
#142I think it's perfect understandable that some people feel dreaded while others feel excited. But whatever the outcome, we have to adapt.
For people who feel that AI kills a passion, I'd recommend finding another hobby. Especially at the age of 60, when you don't have to work, you can plan retirement -- the next 20+ years as if it is your second childhood, and do whatever you want. I encourage you to search for greater meanings. After all, programming is just a man-made wonder, and the universe is full of grandeur.
Re: I'm 60 years old. Claude Code killed a passion
#143> it depends on what you enjoy: the journey or the destination This has been 100% my experience. I enjoy the puzzle solving and the general joy of organizing and pulling things together. I could really care less about the end result to meet some business need. The fun part is in the building, it's in the understanding, the growth of me . I have coworkers who get itchy when they don't see their work on production, and…
From my understanding, you can instead use Claude in the following manner: understand and solve the problem, put up pseudo code, and then tell Claude to generate real code and maybe restructure it a bit. So you don't have to write the actual code but have solved the problem all by yourself.
Re: I'm 60 years old. Claude Code killed a passion
#144> it depends on what you enjoy: the journey or the destination This has been 100% my experience. I enjoy the puzzle solving and the general joy of organizing and pulling things together. I could really care less about the end result to meet some business need. The fun part is in the building, it's in the understanding, the growth of me . I have coworkers who get itchy when they don't see their work on production, and…
This is me as well. I am actively seeking out a different line of work, because talking to a chat bot gives me 0 joy.
Re: I'm 60 years old. Claude Code killed a passion
#145> it depends on what you enjoy: the journey or the destination This has been 100% my experience. I enjoy the puzzle solving and the general joy of organizing and pulling things together. I could really care less about the end result to meet some business need. The fun part is in the building, it's in the understanding, the growth of me . I have coworkers who get itchy when they don't see their work on production, and…
From my understanding, you can instead use Claude in the following manner: understand and solve the problem, put up pseudo code, and then tell Claude to generate real code and maybe restructure it a bit. So you don't have to write the actual code but have solved the problem all by yourself.
"So you dont have to" - I suspect the person you are replying to likes to write code.
Re: I'm 60 years old. Claude Code killed a passion
#146I enjoy the journey too. The journey is building systems, not coding. Coding was always the most tedious and least interesting part of it. Thinking about the system, thinking about its implementation details, iterating and making it better and better. Nothing has changed with AI. My ambition grew with the technology. Now I don't waste time on simple systems. I can get to work doing what I've always thought would be i…
Maybe it is just my experience, because I'm not a system programmer, but instead learning it. I find that concepts in system programming are not really very hard to understand (e.g. log-based file system is the one I'm reading about today), but the implementation, the actual coding, the actual weaving of the system, is most of the fun/grit. Maybe it is just me, but I find that for system programming, I have to implement every part of it, before claiming that I understand it.
Re: I'm 60 years old. Claude Code killed a passion
#147Earlier quoted context omitted.
From my understanding, you can instead use Claude in the following manner: understand and solve the problem, put up pseudo code, and then tell Claude to generate real code and maybe restructure it a bit. So you don't have to write the actual code but have solved the problem all by yourself.
"So you dont have to" - I suspect the person you are replying to likes to write code.
> This has been 100% my experience. I enjoy the puzzle solving and the general joy of organizing and pulling things together. I could really care less about the end result to meet some business need.
I don't really see where he/she said that explicitly. My understanding is that he likes to solve problems but don't care about the final implementation. But I stand corrected.
Re: I'm 60 years old. Claude Code killed a passion
#148Well, I'm 55 - and have been a pentester for the past 15 years, but I am having a blast. CC is so enabling - I build something new most weekends (this is my best project so far - which is a site which collects and writes stories for all the latest AI security research: https://shortspan.ai/). All sorts of projects I have had on the back burner are now coming to life. I have 4 kids, so wouldn't have time without Codex/Claude Code. Maybe I have an hour here or there, and that is enough to make something or improve something
Re: I'm 60 years old. Claude Code killed a passion
#149The friction is the feature for journey-focused builders. When AI removes the cognitive resistance—debugging a parser, wrestling with state management, naming things—it also removes the scaffolding that forces you to really understand what you're building. You end up in implementation details faster, which feels productive until you realize you're solving problems you wouldn't have encountered if you'd thought harder upfront.
Re: I'm 60 years old. Claude Code killed a passion
#150This argument doesn't make sense to me. did airplanes kill road trips? AI lets you go faster, but you don't have to use it at all, or can use it in select ways to collab with. Unless you're somehow bothered by how other people code, you've only got more options now.