[brunooliv]

Couldn’t read the entire comments but, my experience has been overwhelmingly positive so far. I think what helps me be effective is a combination of factors: I work only in a modern, well-documented and well-architected Java codebase with over 80% test coverage.

I only use Claude Code with Opus 4.6 on High Effort.

I always, ALWAYS treat my “new job” as writing a detailed ticket for whatever it is I need to do.

I give the model access to a DB replica of my prod DB that I create manually.

I do NOT waste time with custom agents, Claude.md files or any of that stuff.

When I put ALL of the above together, the results ARE THE PROMISED LAND: I simply haven’t written a single line of code manually in the last 3 months.

[wasabinator]

I find this pretty interesting. I am curious though: Did you dislike coding? You sound genuinely excited to not be doing it anymore.

For me I have been a coder since a very young age and I am nearing the end of my career now. I still love writing code to problem solve just as much as the first day I learnt to code. The thought of something taking that task away from me doesn't fill me with glee.

A parallel for me is if I enjoyed puzzle pages and those brought me with joy and satisfaction employing my grey matter to solve, I just wouldn't find it interesting to have an agent complete the forms to me, with me simply guiding the agent to clues.

[brunooliv]

Replying once again for future reference to make my position clear: I firmly believe that one MUST experience programming on its own first. No LLMs, no crutches. One MUST feel the abstractions melting away and things clicking in the brain first.

The design becoming obvious. Being able to remove that extra if statement after clarifying requirements with a customer face to face.

A design pattern fitting a scenario like a glove, etc, etc.

You need REAL experience that only comes with time and effort. Years or decades, different businesses, different companies, etc.

But once you have crossed that chasm and that rite of passage, using LLMs becomes a true multiplier and my experience quite fun.

Using them blindly or without experience is a very different thing I can imagine.

[brunooliv]

I like problem solving and building useful things for our customers. Coding for me was always more of a “means to an end” than pure craft on its own. Obviously some standard, good and clean code pops up when you’re working in things to be extended or maintained by others, but, truth be told, ego battling in code reviews gets boring very fast and additionally, no matter how much I like experimenting with things, if I have an hypothesis, I can now validate it in 2 days instead of 1 week, which means I can validate double the hypothesis.

I am extremely excited about that! Coding in itself as the act of manually typing things? Absolutely not