Rediscovering the Joy of Manual Coding: A Personal Reflection on AI Coding Assistants
By
lazyfolder
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Summary
The author shares a personal reflection on their experience with AI coding assistants like Claude Code, describing how using these tools led to feelings of depression and lethargy. They found that while AI can generate decent-looking code, it removed the joy and personal satisfaction they derived from writing code manually. After multiple attempts with Claude Code, they consistently deleted it and rediscovered the happiness that comes from hands-on coding, emphasizing that coding (not just software engineering) is a fun and essential part of their work.
Key quotes
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LLMs can generate decent-ish and correct-ish looking code while I have more time to do what? doomscroll?
Every. Single. Time. I rediscovered the joy of coding.
Yes, coding is not software engineering, but for me, it is a fun and essential part of it.
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