Programming

I don’t code anymore.

I picked up Claude at the beginning of the year and I haven’t looked back. There is no reason for me to write code by hand. Opus 4.5 was a game changer.

It’s like, really really good. Especially at building software. It doesn’t feel like it is trying to guess the next character. It is just building exactly what I want, taking into consideration things that I did not even consider. I don’t even correct it often.

I’ve been spending a lot of time trying to convince people around me to start using it. I use to be part of the camp that believed that AI could never replace me, but I’m uncertain about that now.

I hardly even read code anymore. If I have a curiosity about the behavior of some system, I’ll just deploy Claude to ask it to read the code for me.

Reading documentation? I’ll ask Claude to read it and use it. Debugging a problem? I’ll ask Claude to find it and fix it. Design a solution? I’ll ask Claude to design it. Refactor a code base? Tests? It’s all Claude.

It has been nearly 4 full months without coding and there is no going back for me. With Claude, I’ve been producing more code than I ever had. More tooling, more bug fixes, more features. Code review is the bottleneck at this moment.

I recently tried writing some code by hand, and it felt awful. Felt slow. Felt ancient.

This industry is changing so fast. I have become detached from my career aspirations as of late. This is because I don’t intend to become invested or emotionally attached to any single thing I devote myself to. Building a skillset that will become destroyed in the next second. Developing a specialty that no one will demand.

I’m not fearful. But I am not at rest.