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Tell HN: I Lost Joy of Programming

94 points Eatcats | 2 comments | 08 Jul 25 11:36 UTC | HN request time: 0.441s | source

Small confession

I’ve been using Windsurf editor for about six months now, and it does most of the coding work for me.

Recently, I realized I no longer enjoy programming. It feels like I’m just going through the pain of explaining to the LLM what I want, then sitting and waiting for it to finish. If it fails, I just switch to another model—and usually, one of them gets the job done.

At this point, I’ve even stopped reviewing the exact code changes. I just keep pushing forward until the task is done.

On the bright side, I’ve gotten much better at writing design documents.

Anyone else feel the same?

1. jakupovic ◴[08 Jul 25 12:50 UTC] No.44499476[source]▶
I feel exactly the opposite. To explain, programming became very tedious, looking through endless lines of code, and lately it appears everything is generated, and not making sense of it. With programming bots I can focus on what I want rather than spending inordinate amount of time finding just the right syntax for something that itself was generated by another machine. Honestly and simply, get with the program
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2. ◴[08 Jul 25 18:01 UTC] No.44502441[source]▶