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Engineer says Claude Code has made his job "soul-sucking" as workers spend 12-hour days pressing enter
www.techspot.com/news/113937-engineer-claude-code-has-made-job-soul-sucking.html
Replying to @Mustachius_Grumpius@thelemmy.club
I’ve heard the same from developers at work “doing this using AI makes it boring, but at the same time I feel silly if I write everything from scratch”.
Replying to @espentan@lemmy.world
I’m not a developer but I do make little tools for myself at work. I used an LLM to assist with adding some features recently, nothing I couldn’t easily do myself. It did a fine job and made minimal changes, all totally readable and for the most part the same way I would have done it.
I have a new tool I want to make, and it’s hard not to just turn to the LLM, since it’ll save me many hours on a script that nobody else will ever see. It’s really taken the fun out of it. I’m proud of what I made, even though nobody else will care, but doing this my usual way will feel like I’m using the wrong tool out of perversity.
I dunno. I hate everything.
Replying to @clay_pidgin@sh.itjust.works
I felt that way until I just stopped using it entirely
Replying to @grrgyle@slrpnk.net
I’ve only tried it the once but it did a great job and caused me the consternation from my previous comment.
Replying to @clay_pidgin@sh.itjust.works
It is disappointing knowing it actually works some of the time. I guess I just don’t care. I have my lines and I don’t cross them.
I’m sure there are some great uses of Microsoft software or Nvidia hardware, but I’m not going to use them unless forced to by work.
Replying to @grrgyle@slrpnk.net
It basically added three small functions and their command line args to a sub-500 line Python script. I’m sure if helped that my function and variable name are verbose, like dictionary_of_fruits_with_dictionary_of_attributes.
My work provided the tool and asked me to try it.