I felt the familiar feeling of depression and lethargy creep in while my eyes darted from watching claude-code work and my phone. “What’s the point of it all?” I thought, LLMs can generate decent-ish and correct-ish looking code while I have more time to do what? doomscroll? This was the third time I gave claude-code a try. I felt the same feelings every single time and ended up deleting claude-code after 2-3 weeks, and whaddyouknow?
Maybe you’ll have a different opinion about code when it’s almost all disposable.
Yes some places still make bespoke $30 steak hamburgers. But also most people eat mass produced, less expensive McD’s
Yes, but the hand crafted artisinal version I wrote? You can copy that infinitly, already.
There’s no added value by copy/pasting infinite slop burgers.
And if the burgers are made by people who just grab random items to try to make it look like a burger, whether or not it is edible, no one would.
AI code is unreliable, unsafe, and worst of all, has no basis of even basic intelligence. I’d trust more code produced by a monkey than by an AI. Trusting AI code is like trusting a very realistic drawing of a tunnel and running into it while knowing that it’s a drawing, because “it looks like a real tunnel so it must work like one”. AI code is not code, it’s keywords scrambled together to look like code.