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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: 0.21s | 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. growbell_social ◴[14 Jul 25 12:59 UTC] No.44559685[source]▶
> At this point, I’ve even stopped reviewing the exact code changes. I just keep pushing forward until the task is done.

I think this is becoming more normal. I wrote about it [1], but I have the opposite takeaway. This makes programming for me _vastly more_ enjoyable. It might come down to the type of programming you do.

1. Do you build and ship whole products? 2. Do you work mostly on non-user facing code (backend etc)

I'd be interested to know which of these you work on.

[1] https://open.substack.com/pub/growbell/p/i-dont-care-what-th...