94 points Eatcats | 1 comments | 08 Jul 25 11:36 UTC | HN request time: 0.651s | 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?

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taylodl ◴[08 Jul 25 14:10 UTC] No.44500164[source]▶

>>44499063 (OP) #

If you see "programming" as "writing code" then I can see where that joy is lost. If you see "programming" as "creating software" then you can maintain that joy. I would argue the goal has always been to write less code. That has driven the design of programming languages for the past 50 years.

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1. baal80spam ◴[08 Jul 25 14:32 UTC] No.44500367[source]▶

>>44500164 #

Thanks for this. It helps to rethink one's motives.

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