Ask HN: Did modern AI's coding abilities make you lose interest in programming?

Yes, but perhaps not in the way you imagine.

I'm still not using AI much, but I'm especially wary of using it to help me with any creative task such as writing or coding. I believe "vibe coding" is the anthesis of hacker culture. What interest I've lost is probably more due to being depressed about the direction I see things heading.

The problem is that coding is often not a very creative task. Its higher levels are creative, some of the details may be creative, but there's still plenty of legwork. In other words, most of our languages are not high-level enough. This is where the AI can be helpful.

I don't use LLMs much for heavy lifting around the code. But it's an almost-excellent tool for research, finding or synthesizing examples, and generating boilerplate where other tools can't do it. "Almost", because LLMs hallucinate more often than I would like, so sometimes I have to cross-check their answers.