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Tell HN: I Lost Joy of Programming

94 points Eatcats | 1 comments | 08 Jul 25 11:36 UTC | HN request time: 0.212s | 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. xena ◴[08 Jul 25 12:50 UTC] No.44499477[source]▶
I had to rip all the LLM crap out of my editor to feel like I was doing anything. My programming ability has gotten better and if I do actually need to use an LLM I just open ChatGPT, DeepSeek, or punch stuff into Ollama.

The majority of what I end up using langle mangles for is trivially verifiable but tedious to do things like "turn this Go struct into an OpenAPI Schema" or "take this protocol buffer definition and write the equivalent in Rust prost".