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Re:Karpathy: A few random notes from Claude coding quite a b... by freediver on Tuesday January 27, 2026 @05:56PM (#46788362)
My experience is the opposite - I haven't used my brain more in a while.. Typing characters was never what developers were valued for anyway. The joy of building is back too.
Re:Karpathy: A few random notes from Claude coding quite a b... by swader999 on Tuesday January 27, 2026 @06:07PM (#46788474)
Same. I feel I need to be way more into the domain and what the user is trying to do than ever before.
Re:Karpathy: A few random notes from Claude coding quite a b... by mlrtime on Wednesday January 28, 2026 @06:15AM (#46793878)
100% same, I had brain fog before the llms, I got tired of reading new docs over and over again for new languages. I became a manager and lost it all.

Now back to IC with 25+ years of experience + LLM = god mode, and its fun again.