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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 theshrike79 »

leptons wrote: post #949
theshrike79 wrote: post #942

Earlier quoted context omitted.

How do they "lie constantly"? We are specifically talking about code here, not LLMs writing legal documents.

I've had the LLM "lie" to me about the code it wrote many times. But "lie" and "hallucinate" are incorrect anthropomorphisms commonly used to describe LLM output. The more appropriate term would be garbage .

Just a basic sanity check: did the LLM have the tools to check its output for lies, hallucinations and garbage? Could it compile, run tests, linters etc and still managed to produce something that doesn't work?

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

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Post by nickjj »

frumiousirc wrote: post #912
nickjj wrote: post #519

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> But, this also all depends on the experience level of the developer. If you are gonna vibe code, Where I find it struggles is when I prompt it with things like this: > I'm using the latest version of Walker (app launcher on Linux) on Arch Linux from the AUR, here is a shell script I wrote to generate a dynamic dmenu based menu which gets sent in as input to walker. This is working perfectly but now I want to displa…

What LLM are you using? What you describe should be no problem for gemini free or claude haiku and above. Other models, I dunno.

Both ChatGPT's anonymous one as well as Google's "AI mode" on their search page which brings you to a dedicated page to start prompting. I'm not sure if that's Gemini proper because if I goto https://gemini.google.com/app it doesn't have my history.

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

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Post by theill »

I feel the EXACT same. I wrote about this specifically a year ago (read https://www.commanigy.com/blog/2025/03/25/ai-reignited-my-co...) and my passion has NOT decreased that is for sure. I'm SUPER excited about the future even though I'm sure my job WILL NOT be the same in 6 or 12 months.

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

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Post by csarmond »

I've found my people. I discovered my love of programming in the 80s at the age of 10 on a TRS-80. But I'm not a kid anymore with infinite free time to learn new tech. I have a lot of responsibilities. So by the time I get up to speed on the latest and greatest, the industry has moved on. Claude has reinvigorated my love for buildings apps. I completed a side project in an afternoon. I built a custom app for my wife in a couple of days. I released an iOS app. And since my job does not allow for direct AI integration out of security concerns, I still get my fill of coding by hand. I resisted the AI movement at first but once I embraced it, it became a win-win for me.

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

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Post by schnitsel »

kitd wrote: post #709
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…

Tools like Claude Code are the ultimate cheat code for me and have breathed new life into my desire to create I'm in my 60s and retiring this summer. I feel the opposite. Agents have removed most of the satisfaction and fulfilment from designing, building, testing and completing a feature or component. And if frameworks are a problem, learning to create simply and efficiently without them has its own sense of satisfa…

You will maybe like this platform: https://solve.it.com/

Their tag line: "Don't outsource your thinking to AI. Instead, use AI to become a better problem solver, clearer thinker, and more elegant coder."

I have followed the course myself and it reignited my passion. During the course I built a cool side project from scratch, small steps, no vibe coding using the course's principals. It was really satisfying, I felt in control again while learning new things.

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

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Post by grb423 »

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…

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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 pmarreck »

witx wrote: post #915
pmarreck wrote: post #538

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> 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…

It's so bizarre I see everyone happy using llms trained unethically, so they stop doing the only creative and interesting part of the whole SDLC and just become managers

There is no strong argument that they were "trained unethically". You can google or ask an LLM to argue pro/con that claim... but of course, you haven't, since doing so would itself violate your apparent worldview.

> so they stop doing the only creative and interesting part of the whole SDLC and just become managers

Bullshit (and, speaking as an old, incredibly whiny). Figuring out the right way to talk to yet another API is not the "creative and interesting part." Coming up with entirely new concepts and building them faster than I ever thought possible given that I have zero time to myself since I have a kid is literally the most "creative and interesting" thing I've experienced in my entire life. /shrug

I don't know what to say to folks like you anymore other than "byeeeeee, got too many ideas I can build now to waste time arguing with people who are simply not getting it... and maybe never got it in the first place because they got pushed into STEM instead of being cursed from the gods with it like I definitely did"

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

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Post by 4k93n2 »

AlexeyBelov wrote: post #894
Smart_Medved wrote: post #633

The framework fatigue angle in this thread is real. I spent years maintaining legacy JS and CSS codebases, watching the ecosystem reinvent the same dropdown menu in Backbone, then Angular, then React, then Vue. What I didn't expect is that all that time understanding the actual DOM, specificity rules, and browser quirks would become useful again — when Claude goes sideways on an old codebase, the underlying mental mo…

LLM-ass comment.

its not x, its y!
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