Tell HN: I Lost Joy of Programming

Re:Tell HN: I Lost Joy of Programming by derekp7 on Tuesday July 08, 2025 @10:10AM (#44500166)

I take a hybrid approach. I will describe a simplified problem to the LLM, have it generate a well commented and reasonable approach for the problem. I then use that as a cheat sheet for implementing my actual code. This still gives me hands on codi and more control, without needing to agonize over the details of each coding technique.

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Re:Tell HN: I Lost Joy of Programming by linuxscooter on Wednesday July 09, 2025 @08:12AM (#44509055)

This is me also.

I know if I leet code ground myself into the dirt, I’d get better, and more importantly: faster.

But there’s never been any payoff to me full-time coding.. not when the pay is close to coding, and my role wants me to address test tech debt or Nice To Haves tooling, and (until Go) I had to do my 9-5 work in a scripting language…

There’s now more days behind me than ahead, and I no longer want to understand low level details and theories about the kernel or TTY.

All progress is built on abstraction. It has to be.

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Re:Tell HN: I Lost Joy of Programming by jamil7 on Thursday July 10, 2025 @05:38AM (#44519097)

I'll often get it to write failing tests for me and write the actual code myself.

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