Re:I'm 60 years old. Claude Code killed a passion
by markus_zhang on Sunday March 15, 2026 @05:15PM
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From my understanding, you can instead use Claude in the following manner: understand and solve the problem, put up pseudo code, and then tell Claude to generate real code and maybe restructure it a bit. So you don't have to write the actual code but have solved the problem all by yourself.
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Re:I'm 60 years old. Claude Code killed a passion
by fastasucan on Sunday March 15, 2026 @05:15PM
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"So you dont have to" - I suspect the person you are replying to likes to write code.
Re:I'm 60 years old. Claude Code killed a passion
by markus_zhang on Sunday March 15, 2026 @05:23PM
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> This has been 100% my experience. I enjoy the puzzle solving and the general joy of organizing and pulling things together. I could really care less about the end result to meet some business need.
I don't really see where he/she said that explicitly. My understanding is that he likes to solve problems but don't care about the final implementation. But I stand corrected.
Re:I'm 60 years old. Claude Code killed a passion
by parpfish on Sunday March 15, 2026 @10:59PM
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If you worked in an office and your boss asked for 100 copies of their memo, they want you to use the copy machine.
If they saw you typing it out 100 times they’d tell you that you’re wasting time. It does t matter that you like to type and that you went to school to get a degree in typing.