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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: 0.208s | 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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rvz ◴[08 Jul 25 12:54 UTC] No.44499501[source]▶
> At this point, I’ve even stopped reviewing the exact code changes. I just keep pushing forward until the task is done.

How is this the future of software engineering?

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shafyy ◴[08 Jul 25 13:05 UTC] No.44499587[source]▶
Because capitalism
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marginalia_nu ◴[08 Jul 25 13:08 UTC] No.44499611[source]▶
How is capitalism causing this?
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1. shafyy ◴[16 Jul 25 09:22 UTC] No.44580310[source]▶
Very simply put: because in neoliberal capitalism, the only goal of companies is to maximize profit in the short-term (because financing is driven by short time horizons). Crucially, companies don't need to internalize any external costs.