I am super efficient these days. But that's exactly what it feels like. Coding is not fun anymore and needs a lot of stress resistance now.
However doing actual manual coding starts to feel weird as well
However doing actual manual coding starts to feel weird as well
I have a feeling the job's about to get a whole lot shittier.
The thing that made our crowd apart in the work society is now vanishing, that’s sad.
I wonder how future movies will depict programmers: depressed faces getting angrier and angrier chatting with a CLI coding agent! This will not inspire future generations!
What I can't stand even though I tried quite a bit is talking to the damn clanker at length to describe step-wise what I believe needs to be done, and keep waiting, reviewing, telling it what's wrong, waiting, reviewing, I don't think I'm at a stage where I have the mental capacity to be running dozens of clankers at once doing all their changes on their own, and just reviewing later. It's absolutely exhausting and joyless, I've tried, and at the moment it's not for me.
And just up and changing companies is also not a realistic option for many, before people start bleating that tired, privileged trope.
I asked Claude to help me out with an issue I was having with a small renderer I was working on, it fixed the issue but also added a memory leak, the leak was easy enough to fix because I fully understood what was going on but if you’re vibe coding and don’t have the skills to debug yourself you’re going to have a bad time.
In the end I don’t like using LLMs for coding but they are good at solving isolated problems when I get stuck. I prefer it when they review my code instead of writing it for me.
They can generate stuff, but generally I spend so long fixing it manually that it makes the time savings zero or negative.
Only thing I have found useful is the PR review bot. That thing is genuinely incredible at spotting tiny mistakes in massive PRs that make your eyes glaze over.