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Re:Show HN: I quit coding years ago. AI brought me back on Monday January 19, 2026 @04:10PM (#46684543)
Understood! I will not use any ai tools here, even only for translations.

I realized It’s a good way to keep real persons and human generated ideas in this community by limiting ai usage.

Re:Show HN: I quit coding years ago. AI brought me back on Monday January 19, 2026 @04:59AM (#46677027)
Great feedback, I'll add to dev pipeline.
Re:Show HN: I quit coding years ago. AI brought me back on Monday January 19, 2026 @04:50AM (#46676961)
Yes, It was written by AI because I'm not a native English speaker, I don't want to make any grammer issues. ( this reply is not by AI :-)
Re:Show HN: I quit coding years ago. AI brought me back on Monday January 19, 2026 @04:38AM (#46676858)
I'm not a bot. I'm not a native English speaker. I taught Enlish by myself. so I tried to use ai to tranlate what I really want to say. ( these words is typing by myself instead of AI)
Re:Show HN: I quit coding years ago. AI brought me back on Monday January 19, 2026 @02:25AM (#46675913)
Totally agree. I have my day job, and vibe-coding has simply brought back the joy of building things for me. It should be about passion and creativity, not about scamming people or overselling half-baked products. The "get rich quick with AI" narrative is toxic.
Re:Show HN: I quit coding years ago. AI brought me back on Monday January 19, 2026 @01:15AM (#46675561)
You're right that this is simple compared to what real engineers build. I have a lot of respect for people like you who write things like custom math libraries for cross-CPU determinism — that's way beyond my level.

I'll keep learning and try to make this less of a toy over time. And hopefully I can bring what I've learned from years in investing into my next product to actually help people. Thanks for the perspective.

Re:Show HN: I quit coding years ago. AI brought me back on Monday January 19, 2026 @12:46AM (#46675436)
Ha, you got me!
Re:Show HN: I quit coding years ago. AI brought me back on Monday January 19, 2026 @12:40AM (#46675414)
20 years of ideas finally getting built — I felt that.

For me it was financial tools I'd been sketching in my head for years. Now they actually exist.

The "can't sleep" part is so real. It's like being a kid again when you first discovered you could make things with code.

And I realized something — we just want to solve problems, not spend all our time studying the techniques for solving them.

Re:Show HN: I quit coding years ago. AI brought me back on Sunday January 18, 2026 @09:55PM (#46674577)
This really resonates. The setup cost was always the killer for me too — by the time you get everything working, the motivation is gone. Now I can actually go from idea to prototype in an afternoon. Cool to hear it's having the same effect on actual research.
Re:Show HN: I quit coding years ago. AI brought me back on Sunday January 18, 2026 @09:54PM (#46674568)
$100 did feel steep at first. I tried other models but Opus 4 with extended thinking just hits different — it actually gets what I'm trying to do and the code often works first try. Hard to go back after that.
Re:Show HN: I quit coding years ago. AI brought me back on Sunday January 18, 2026 @09:52PM (#46674559)
Thanks! Honestly I've been feeling that too — finding stuff is getting annoying even for me. Search is coming soon. Good call.
Re:Show HN: I quit coding years ago. AI brought me back on Sunday January 18, 2026 @08:36PM (#46674108)
Fair call — it did kind of explode from one calculator to 60+ I’m a real person (long-time lurker, finally posting), but I get why it looks sus. Things are changing fast, and I’m just happy to be part of the messy early wave. Thanks for the honesty.
Re:Show HN: I quit coding years ago. AI brought me back on Sunday January 18, 2026 @08:26PM (#46674028)
You're absolutely right too.
Re:Show HN: I quit coding years ago. AI brought me back on Sunday January 18, 2026 @08:21PM (#46673993)
Yeah, you're right — that part is pretty rough. I wanted to help people actually understand compound interest (it's kind of life-changing once it clicks), but I got lazy and let AI do it without proper editing. Defeats the whole point.

I'll figure out a better way. Thanks for calling it out.

Show HN: I quit coding years ago. AI brought me back

https://calquio.com

Quick background: I used to code. Studied it in school, wrote some projects, but eventually convinced myself I wasn't cut out for it. Too slow, too many bugs, imposter syndrome — the usual story. So I pivoted, ended up as an investment associate at an early-stage angel fund, and haven't written real code in years.Fast forward to now. I'm a Buffett nerd — big believer in compound interest as a...

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