I used to get a deep sense of dread trying to write apps or code complex projects. I could always do well at LeetCode style programming challenges, but making full-blown web apps and managing all the set up, initialization issues and bug fixes was a headache that turned me off from software engineering.
However now all that is way easier with LLM's and stuff like Claude Code, I don't have that dread anymore because I can always just increase/decrease the amount I rely on LLM's and use them as a Hail Mary so I am not spending hours searching a super specific weird bug.
I know it means I may not be learning as much, but I see it as a worthwhile exchange because otherwise I probably would have not gone into making apps or doing anything ambitious in the first place.
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I used to get a deep sense of dread trying to write apps or code complex projects. I could always do well at LeetCode style programming challenges, but making full-blown web apps and managing all the set up, initialization issues and bug fixes was a headache that turned me off from software engineering.
However now all that is way easier with LLM's and stuff like Claude Code, I don't have that dread anymore because I can always just increase/decrease the amount I rely on LLM's and use them as a Hail Mary so I am not spending hours searching a super specific weird bug.
I know it means I may not be learning as much, but I see it as a worthwhile exchange because otherwise I probably would have not gone into making apps or doing anything ambitious in the first place.