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

Post by satvikpendem » Sun, Mar 08, 2026, 1:12 PM UTC

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You know what they mean by that term, it's about building things without needing to put in the learning effort. I have bosses building small POCs via vibe coding, something they would not have done via learning to code and typing it manually. It's the same sort of argument artists use when it comes to AI generated media, there obviously is a qualitative difference in the people now able to generate whatever they want…

> I have bosses building small POCs via vibe coding They are not building anything; they are paying Anthropic to do it. > Lastly, many, many open weight models exist. Good luck running them when the megacorporations have bought out all hardware.

Post by intended » Sun, Mar 08, 2026, 1:17 PM UTC

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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…

The world changes. Time marches on, and the very skills you spend your time developing will inevitably expire in their usefulness. Things that were once marvelous talents are now campfire stories or punchlines. LLMs may be accelerating the process, but definitely not the cause. If you want a career in technology, a durable one, you learn to adapt. Your primary skill is NOT to master a given technology, it is the abil…

Post by witx » Sun, Mar 08, 2026, 1:23 PM UTC

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To those of you reading the comment section thinking something like the following: >"Wait a moment! Being forced to use AI gave me depression, and I'm really aware of the fact that it's only going to become better and better the more developers are using it, to the point where the 10 job openings of yesterday are 1 job opening tomorrow. Why are people so excited", remember this: You are reading HN, the survivorship b…

> LLM watch-six-agents-writing-and-you-proofreading gave me so much existential crisis and depression this is extremely bizarre because I’m 53, been coding since 12, and it has had literally the exact opposite effect on me, I find it tremendously exciting, like riding a snowmobile instead of manually cross-country skiing but I do think that if you’re not ready to work like this, you may need to consider a career pivo…

Post by ad_hockey » Sun, Mar 08, 2026, 1:36 PM UTC

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> while retaining control of every line What I want when I'm coding, especially on open source side projects, is to retain copyright licensing over every line (cleanly, without lying about anything). Whoops!

Hmm. TIL: The real exposure isn't Anthropic, OpenIA claiming your code, it's you unknowingly distributing someone else's GPL code because the model silently reproduced it, with essentially zero recourse for the model owner.

Post by oblio » Sun, Mar 08, 2026, 2:54 PM UTC

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Coding is one of the least gate kept things in history. Literally the only obstacle is "do I want to put in the time to learn it". All Claude is doing is remixing all the free stuff that was already a google search away.

I suggest trying to find out how the things you're taking for granted - time, literacy, books - remain barriers for many people in many parts of the world.