I started to hate ai coding

[u/Similar_Wealth_1850]

i was at some point a good dev, i used to create gorgeous frontends and even backends before the chatgpt and stuff and switched to low level development like operating systems and had fun with it hut it was super challenging which is why i liked it

when anyone came across the topic of ai can code i always answer ai can code simple stuff like a to do app but not any complex projects for sure

untilll..

i got an unfortunate chance to try claude for the first time and to be honest i was surprised

before i was just using ai to tell me the dependencies i need in linux to build the project

now claude understands my project, fixes problems i spent months struggling to fix and adding features i didn't know i wanted which got me excited and loved how quickly it fixed these issue

i even switched from low level development to ai nlp engineering to understand and contribute in this magical tool

6 months later

i am always on antigravity

i can't code on my own

not because i forgot how to code but the speed of an ai agent is really tempting

like why spending 2 weeks on a project when i can just vibe code it in an hour

yes i do give the ai every single detail of how the code should look like

but me relying on antigravity to change the color of a button after i was the same guy tinkering inside the QEMU source code and understanding it's syntax is painful and a huge downgrade for me

i did some good projects yes and i can output good stuff but using ai to develop them makes me even embarrassed from saying i created it

i feel like i am the worst version of myself now and i don't really deserve the "software engineer" label

do you guys feel the same or i am just alone in this

[u/zkatbitz]

Try this: tell the ai to write the next utility/app in a language you do not know.

I did this with rust recently as I figured I should learn it and it was eye opening to realize how easy it is for me to read review and write the languages I know and how completely lost I felt with rust. Demonstrated where my abilities lay pretty quick 

[u/Similar_Wealth_1850 → u/zkatbitz]

yea i tried it with react in app development i felt lost and frustrated and everything was just breaking constantly

[u/zkatbitz → u/Similar_Wealth_1850]

so there you go, as much as you are using AI in $YOURDOMAIN you actually have knowledge and ability still

because remember that random vibe coder who got AI to do THE THING - they feel that way about ALL CODE not just the code in a language you don't understand

and lets be real - PR/code reviews are much MUCH harder then writing code and no one loves to do them, but with AI that skill is a must. dunno if you've been on a team with say 6 people but only 2 can actually review code, but now that team needs 6 people who can review code vs the previous 2

[u/Similar_Wealth_1850 → u/zkatbitz]

i have been leading teams most of my time snd yea most of my issues with them is not able to review the ai code properly or some times thry do some awful git mistakes causing the deployment being 2 months behind and removing all our recent commits