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?
I’ll admit I’ve used Claude Code pretty heavily over the last few months to coordinate high-level reorganization of data between three projects (two being brand new).
It was great in the beginning but I can’t count the number of times where it “fixed” one issue only to create a dozen more. It gets to be extremely circular and I hate having to go back and clean up 80% of what it wrote because it was just such ugly and/or outdated syntax. It’s to the point where I feel guilty for (probably) trashing the environment and it almost physically pains me how much brainpower I feel I’ve lost in the process.
Luckily those new projects are deployed and I’ve stopped relying on LLMs almost completely.
I’ll admit I’ve used Claude Code pretty heavily over the last few months to coordinate high-level reorganization of data between three projects (two being brand new).
It was great in the beginning but I can’t count the number of times where it “fixed” one issue only to create a dozen more. It gets to be extremely circular and I hate having to go back and clean up 80% of what it wrote because it was just such ugly and/or outdated syntax. It’s to the point where I feel guilty for (probably) trashing the environment and it almost physically pains me how much brainpower I feel I’ve lost in the process.
Luckily those new projects are deployed and I’ve stopped relying on LLMs almost completely.