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I have bipolar disorder. The more frustrating aspects of coding have historically affected me tenfold (sometimes to the point of severe mania). Using Claude Code has been more like an accessibility tool in that regard. I no longer have to do the frustrating bits. Or at the very least, that aspect of the job is thoroughly diminished. And yes - coding is "fun again".
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…
>> tired of the never ending rat race of keeping up with the latest bizarre web stacks, frameworks
Instead of just keeping up with the latest development frameworks, I also now have to keep up with the latest AI frameworks. I spent a week at my $ job just installing plugins, requesting permissions, debugging issues with the agents, before I went back to writing code myself (plumbing between the latest frameworks) because I'm expected to get stuff done in addition to managing agents that were supposedly going to do my work for me.
My personal agentic AI coding setup never fully materialized while I have been chasing the latest crazes and I am back to handwriting my personal code too (with AI chat help) until I manage to stick to a particular setup.
Anyway, I feel like the rat race just opened yet another front. And I bet I'll still be expected to leetcode in my next technical interview (still was in 2025) in addition to leetprompting or whatever the next segment on interviews will be.
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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.
I don't have direct experience with ChatGPT but those that do that I've talked to place it behind Gemini and Claude models.
Try free Claude or Gemini on the web and see if you have a better experience. Claude free is better than Gemini free. (actually, Gemini free seems extra dumb lately).
I'm a product manager — no coding background, never wrote a line in my life. Yet here I am, building a video editing tool solo. Not just "I made a prototype" solo. I mean designing the full product architecture, iterating on UX, and shipping features. Alone. What's striking isn't just that AI lowers the barrier to coding. It's that it finally closes the gap between having a clear product vision and being able to exec…
If you're only vibe coding, it's going to be an interesting long term experiment.
Using codex has allowed me to add bring up my current project so much more quickly, and I'm enjoying saying what I want, asking for suggestions on how things could be improved, and having what is essentially a junior dev who knows way more about web tech than I ever want to, to put it all together. Every few days I go through the codebase and templates to look for redundancies, opportities for cleanup, check on db queries, etc.
Early days for me but it seems like a great way to build a system.
Of course the problem is you need to be a senior dev to keep things in check and know what you want and mostly how you want it done, and look for problems.
I've written enough code over the last 40 years that I don't feel the need to type every character.
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Can you elaborate on "resistance against cuda"? What were people clinging to instead?
IMO it was mostly that people didn't want to rewrite (and maintain) their code for a new proprietary programming model they were unfamiliar with. People also didn't want to invest in hardware that could only run code written in CUDA. Lots of people wanted (and Intel tried to sell, somewhat succesfully) something they could just plug-and-play and just run the parallel implementations they'd already written for superco…
*But TBF Xeon Phi was not a complete disaster for if you coded it in assembler you could squeeze out Fermi class GPU performance. Good luck getting the "recompile and run" crowd to do that though as they segued from that to relying on compiler directives going forward and that's how NVDA got a decade+ headstart that should never have happened, but did. Today a lot of these sorts are insisting that because of autograd, everything should be written in Python and compiled with an autograd DSL like torch. I am so glad I am close to retirement on that front. I already trust coding agents more than I trust this mindset.