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Tell HN: I Lost Joy of Programming
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Re: Tell HN: I Lost Joy of Programming
#82Is AI genuinely that good for you all? I can't leave it to its own devices, I have to review everything because (from experience) I don't trust it. I think it's an amazing technological advancement, perhaps will go down as one of the top 10 in the history of our species. But I can't just "fire and forget". And that's not just because its output is often not the best, but also because by doing it myself it causes me t…
> it makes me wonder what I'm doing wrong I'm in the same boat: I'm mostly doing C# in Visual Studio (classic) with co-pilot, and it very rarely gives useful code from prompts. Often times the auto-suggestions are hallucinations, and frequently they interfere with "normal" tab completion. I'm wondering if I'm using the wrong tool, or if Visual Studio (classic) co-pilot is just far behind industry norms?
I felt the same way until I tried Claude Code. Moving from an autocomplete-based workflow to a conversation-based workflow changed everything. I find traditional Copilot useless by comparison.
Re: Tell HN: I Lost Joy of Programming
#83No, I feel the exact opposite. This post makes me want to stay away from agentic coding all together. Idk about everyone else but I love programming, more than any other thing I do. I do not want to end up like this.
Re: Tell HN: I Lost Joy of Programming
#84Is AI genuinely that good for you all? I can't leave it to its own devices, I have to review everything because (from experience) I don't trust it. I think it's an amazing technological advancement, perhaps will go down as one of the top 10 in the history of our species. But I can't just "fire and forget". And that's not just because its output is often not the best, but also because by doing it myself it causes me t…
These people arent being honest or they arent dealing with any real level of complexity.
Re: Tell HN: I Lost Joy of Programming
#85Earlier quoted context omitted.
> it makes me wonder what I'm doing wrong I'm in the same boat: I'm mostly doing C# in Visual Studio (classic) with co-pilot, and it very rarely gives useful code from prompts. Often times the auto-suggestions are hallucinations, and frequently they interfere with "normal" tab completion. I'm wondering if I'm using the wrong tool, or if Visual Studio (classic) co-pilot is just far behind industry norms?
I felt the same way until I tried Claude Code. Moving from an autocomplete-based workflow to a conversation-based workflow changed everything. I find traditional Copilot useless by comparison.
Youre 100% being dishonest or not dealing with any sort of complexity.
Re: Tell HN: I Lost Joy of Programming
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Re: Tell HN: I Lost Joy of Programming
#87Have you considered not doing that? It's not obligatory to have an LLM shit out unreviewed code for you, you're making a choice to do that, and you can make a choice not to. Review the code. Hell, maybe even write some code yourself. What you're describing is how I feel whenever I use an LLM for anything more than the most basic of tasks. I've gone from being a senior level software developer to managing a barely com…
> managing a barely competent junior developer who's only redeeming skill is the ability to type really, really quickly
Hits the nail on the head. For an actual junior developer, they'd at least learn over time. With LLM, open up a new chat and you start with a new hire.
Re: Tell HN: I Lost Joy of Programming
#88I've been through this a few times during my career.
This book helped me put it in perspective: https://pragprog.com/titles/cfcar2/the-passionate-programmer...
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#89I feel exactly the opposite. To explain, programming became very tedious, looking through endless lines of code, and lately it appears everything is generated, and not making sense of it. With programming bots I can focus on what I want rather than spending inordinate amount of time finding just the right syntax for something that itself was generated by another machine. Honestly and simply, get with the program
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Re: Tell HN: I Lost Joy of Programming
#90interesting, i have the exact opposite reaction. I had kinda become bored and disillusioned by coding. These tools have brought back the joy of creating things in code for me. Went through all my long forgotten side projects and managed to finish them. So happy to have all of these things done and up and running.