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Tell HN: I'm 60 years old. Claude Code has re-ignited a passion

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Re: Tell HN: I'm 60 years old. Claude Code has re-ignited a passion

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Post by jitbit »

corysama wrote: post #858
jitbit wrote: post #769

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Turning 50 this year. Coding has never _stopped_ being a passion for me, but my increasingly limited time becomes an issue. And Claude code (and cursor) saves me So. Much. Time. I only have 10-20 active years ahead of me, so this is really, really important. Young ppl don’t get it.

Same same. When I was a young, single nerd I would happily spend a weekend coding in my cave. Now I do fun code on a laptop on the sofa with my family. I’m only typing in tiny breaks between socializing and I’m still getting lots of fun stuff done.

Exactly brother, mind if I hug you.

I can play with my 7yo, or help the 11yo with his homework, or go for a run!! - while LLM is cooking a well-spec'ed agentic task. This sounds embarrassing, but LLMs have made our lives healthier, unbelievable.

PS. Not to mention all the "boring" sh*t that I used to postpone/stretch indefinitely, like writng docs or polishing copy for my website... No more stress, no procrastination, just let the LLM do it.

Re: Tell HN: I'm 60 years old. Claude Code has re-ignited a passion

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Post by mlrtime »

jitbit wrote: post #769
burnstek wrote: post #614

50 here. Years ago I completely stopped coding, becoming tired of the never ending rat race of keeping up with the latest bizarre web stacks, frameworks for everything, node for this, npm for that, Angular, React, Vue, whatever - as if solving business problems just became too boring for software developers, so we decided to spend our cycles on the new hotness at every turn. Tools like Claude Code are the ultimate ch…

Turning 50 this year. Coding has never _stopped_ being a passion for me, but my increasingly limited time becomes an issue. And Claude code (and cursor) saves me So. Much. Time. I only have 10-20 active years ahead of me, so this is really, really important. Young ppl don’t get it.

>I only have 10-20 active years ahead of me, so this is really, really important. Young ppl don’t get it.

10-20 years of coding/technology or living?

Young ppl rarely get life experience/choices, youth is wasted on the young, 1000x for my own.

Re: Tell HN: I'm 60 years old. Claude Code has re-ignited a passion

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Post by mlrtime »

codazoda wrote: post #790
crazygringo wrote: post #623

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I don't understand. You specifically: > neglected to include my usual "zero-framework" constraint in the prompt And then your complaint is that it included a bunch of dependencies? AI's do what you tell them. I don't understand how you conclude: > If a simple editor requires 89 third-party packages to exist It obviously doesn't. Why even bother complaining about an AI's default choices when it's so trivial to change…

My main point is that we need to expertly drive these tools. I forgot the trivial instruction and ended up with something that more closely resembles modern software instead of what I personally value. AI still requires our expertise to guide it. I'm not sure if that will be the case in a year, but it is today.

You seem intelligent so it is probably confusing to many why you are posting this.

You call it a trivial instruction, but it is not trivial. It was a core requirement for your own design that you neglected to specify. This is not different than leaving out any other core requirement for a engineering specification.

Most people would NOT want this requirement. Meaning most people wouldn't care if there are package dependencies are not, so the agent 100% did the right thing.

Re: Tell HN: I'm 60 years old. Claude Code has re-ignited a passion

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Post by 4k93n2 »

socalgal2 wrote: post #195
meebee wrote: post #46

So excited to be getting to my backlog of apps that I've wanted but couldn't take the time to develop on my own. I'm 66 and have been in the software field in various capacities (but programming mostly as a hobby). Here's a partial list of apps I've completed in the last few months: - Media Watch app to keep a list of movies and shows my wife and I want to watch - Grocery List with some tracking of frequent purchases…

That's amazing!! Can I ask, do you pay for any server service or run your own or are these standalone apps? For me, many of your ideas, if I was to implement them, I'd want them to have a server. Habits Tracker, need to access from whatever device I'm on at that moment. Grocery List. Same thing, and multiple users so everyone in the same house can add things to one list. Etc.... This is not really LLM related but I f…

i think a server would be overkill for most of these things, even the grocery list where youre sharing between multiple people. something like syncthing would be enough. its p2p so it just syncs over the network whenever both devices are available. for the grocery list theres definitely more chance that you could run into sync conflicts but you could grt around that easily by just having each person add items to a separate list then have the app show all items merged together into one list. basically something like todo.txt but with the ability to use multiple files

Re: Tell HN: I'm 60 years old. Claude Code has re-ignited a passion

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Post by reverius42 »

scoofy wrote: post #864
gzread wrote: post #548

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Is it though? If it was that universal, we'd employ the best programmers as plumbers, since they have the best ability to master plumbing technology. There are limits, and I think the skill being to master programming technologies is a reasonable limit. If you're a great programmer, can you can stop using Angular and master React? Yes. Can you stop telling the computer what to do, and master formal proof assistants?…

The “this wrecked my industry” sob story is especially rich when the vast majority of tech workers ability to demand premium salaries comes directly from creating software that makes existing jobs obsolete. Let’s talk about the industries the computer killed: travel agents, musician, the entire film development industry, local newspapers built on classified ads, the encyclopedia industry, phone operators, projectioni…

Since I love programming, I feel pretty lucky I got to live and work in the only few decades in which it's economically viable to work as a computer programmer. At least "musician" had a longer run, but I guess we had it coming.

Re: Tell HN: I'm 60 years old. Claude Code has re-ignited a passion

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Post by merlindru »

seba_dos1 wrote: post #449
Dumblydorr wrote: post #398

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Glass half empty view? Their whole skill set built up over decades, digitized, and now they have to shift everything they do, and who knows humans will even be in the loop, if they’re not c-suite or brown nosers. Their whole magic and skill is now capable of being done by a PM in 5 minutes with some tokens. How is that supposed to make skillful coders feel? Massive job cuts, bad job market, AI tools everywhere, proba…

> Their whole magic and skill is now capable of being done by a PM in 5 minutes with some tokens. [citation needed] It has just merely moved from "almost, but not entirely useless" to "sometimes useful". The models themselves may perhaps be capable already, but they will need much better tooling than what's available today to get more useful that that, and since it's AI enthusiasts who will happily let LLMs code them…

> It has just merely moved from "almost, but not entirely useless" to "sometimes useful"

[citation needed]

:P

This thing has changed the way I work. I barely touch my editor to actually edit anymore, because speaking into the chat field what changes I want it to make is more efficient

The tooling does need to get better, yes, but anecdotally, I do a fundamentally different job (more thinking, less typing, less sifting through docs, less wiring up) than 3 months ago

So much of my career was spent on especially rummaging in docs and googling and wiring things up. I believe that's the same for most of us

Re: Tell HN: I'm 60 years old. Claude Code has re-ignited a passion

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Post by schrijver »

balls187 wrote: post #45

I’m on a field trip chaperoning my kid. I get a couple slack messages asking for some tweaks to a UI. I type a couple words into a Github AI Agent Session while riding the bus. Fixes are deployed to our staging env in 10 minutes. Fucking wild.

Sounds pretty grim to me, why are they sending you slack messages when you’re on a trip with family?

Re: Tell HN: I'm 60 years old. Claude Code has re-ignited a passion

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Post by [deleted] »

scoofy wrote: post #864
gzread wrote: post #548

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Is it though? If it was that universal, we'd employ the best programmers as plumbers, since they have the best ability to master plumbing technology. There are limits, and I think the skill being to master programming technologies is a reasonable limit. If you're a great programmer, can you can stop using Angular and master React? Yes. Can you stop telling the computer what to do, and master formal proof assistants?…

The “this wrecked my industry” sob story is especially rich when the vast majority of tech workers ability to demand premium salaries comes directly from creating software that makes existing jobs obsolete. Let’s talk about the industries the computer killed: travel agents, musician, the entire film development industry, local newspapers built on classified ads, the encyclopedia industry, phone operators, projectioni…

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