Comment by gist

Comment by gist 19 hours ago

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> I'm a bit shocked to see so many negative comments here on HN.

Very generally I suspect there are many coders on HN who have a love hate relationship with a tool (claude code) that has and will certainly make many (but not all) of them less valuable given the amount of work it can do with even less than ideal input.

This could be a result of the type of coding that they do (ie results of using claude code) vs. say what I can and have done with it (for what I do for a living).

The difference perhaps is that my livlihood isn't based on doing coding for others (so it's a total win with no downside) and it's based on what it can do for me which has been nothing short of phemomenal.

For example I was downvoted for this comment a few months ago:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45932641

Just one reply (others are interesting also):

"HN is all about content that gratifies one’s intellectual curiosity, so if you are admitting you have lost the desire to learn, then that could be triggering the backlash."

(HN is about many things and knowing how others think does have a purpose especially when there is a seismic shift that is going on and saying that I have lost the desire to learn (we are talking about 'awk' here is clearly absurd...)).

echelon 7 hours ago

I legitimately don't think the people posting on HN will be employed in this field in ten years.

This is the end of human programming.

I'd be overjoyed at how far we've come if it wasn't for big companies owning everything.

  • kasane_teto 3 hours ago

    ofc this shit happens when its my turn to be an adult. what’s like even the point anymore?

    • echelon an hour ago

      Fight for rigorous antitrust enforcement.

      Adopt open source models and platforms.

      We have a chance, but it's threading the needle and I'm not sure we'll make it.