I'm 60 years old. Claude Code killed a passion https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47386813
I'm with you 100%. AI has sucked the fun out of coding and IT work. There鈥檚 no satisfaction in solving problems anymore. I'm also just a few years away from 60, so I think we are on the same page. Maybe it is fatigue, I dunno.. you tell me.
@nixCraft I'm 40 years old. Consulting killed a passion. Tech bros buried it. Claude dropped a nuke on the grave.
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We're all different, of course, but I enjoy solving coding problems w/o "AI", and writing about them.
There's likely nothing in the universe that any of us is the best in the universe at: the fun, for me, is in the doing and observing the doing.
I hope we can all find something similar.
Let me clarify a litle bit. why am I with this HN guy? My work is now forcing this nonsense on everyone. Like any other major IT work, they think it is the future because C-suites are getting free BJs from AI companies. I don't want to use these tools, not even for paid work. The other day, I wrote a small Python script to automate certain tasks for my own needs. Now, that was fun for me, but not this forced AI bullshit. Forced stuff never work on people who can think & knows what's good & bad
My other biggest hate for AI and all these companies is how they are stealing others' work. Just because someone put their art, song, book, or forum post/wiki contribution online doesn't mean it is free to steal. Not to mention environmental issues. If you really want to train your shitty AI, pay up to all these people first. You have money in trillions. Instead, they are stealing, firing workers, and building massive data centers and surveillance networks to drag down everyone. So fuck off!
@nixCraft I hear that exhaustion. Most 'AI' today is just bloated corporate theft. But I spent my DCS years broke in Colab, hand-coding Bayesian sims and custom transformers because I wanted to solve real problems, not push buttons. At Shaolin Data Services, we don't use the 'Big Tech' scrapers. We build lean, efficient models on Cloud Run that actually respect the craft of engineering. Don't let the corporate haymakers convince you the art is dead鈥攕ome of us are still forging our own steel.
@nixCraft So a tool that you don't HAVE to use sucks the fun out of your hobby? 馃
That's ridiculous.
AI is a tool. A tool is a device that allows you to expend fewer calories performing a task.
You don't have to use it.
My grandmother used to knit because she enjoyed knitting, not because she needed to knit. She could have used tools, but the fun was in her hands doing it.
