A hot shower, air almost 50 degrees cooler than the outside air coming out of my vents, communicating instantly thousands of miles away, it's all so easy to just forget and take for granted

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48895041

Points: 3

# Comments: 1

The past year or so I've been working with coding agents and at first they just felt like a really really great tool. They'd allow me to do my work faster, and while obviously not perfect, they'd do a pretty good job.

When Opus 4.5 came out it seemed like something changed. I found myself reviewing less and less code. I wasn't writing any on my own either. And for the past several months it's really just been like that. I dictate to my machine a long prompt as to what feature I want, how I want it architected, and what success looks like and Codex just does it. And does it pretty damn well.

This has left me feeling a bit lost in my career because much of the challenge and flow that I would get from coding is gone. Thinking through intricate data flows, mapping them out in my brain, etc... is just gone. I don't do it anymore because there's just no need.

Many will say, "well stop using it so much" or "use it more like a tool and less like the E2E developer." Well...I can't really. I am just flat out not as good, fast, or complete as these latest agents. It would be disingenuous to my company, and my employer would probably question why my productivity is so much lower than my peers.

I think the main emotion i'm feeling right now is just extreme boredom. I don't think being remote is helping at all tbh.

On the surface it feels like it should be amazing. Most of my work is taken care of by agents. But in reality I feel kind of empty, disengaged and bored.

Does anyone else feel like this? Anything you've done to combat it? I have 3 young children so "doing hard stuff outside of work" is not really an option. I have considered working with my hands while prompting and testing code because that would at least make me feel engaged with _something_, but I don't think that will actually work in practice.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48225837

Points: 7

# Comments: 8

Using just a browser is way too token intensive and slow. It would look for 401 errors then run the browser automation to login with the credentials and grab the token.

If you are reading LLM content just about everywhere and have no idea. Obviously there are easy to spot things, but the stuff you don't spot is the stuff you don't spot

My experiment was focused on niche subreddits as well due to the nature of the product I was trying to market.

I am not quite there with Hacker News but I do know for a fact that many "users" here are LLMs.

Online communities are definitely dying. I guess I hope that maybe IRL communities have a resurgence in this wake.

I use "subconsciously" in quotes because I don't remember exactly why I did it, but it aligns with the degradation of their service so it feels like that probably has something to do with it even though I didn't realize it at the time.

Of course shortcuts were taken. They always were and always will be. But don't try to compare shipping software today to even just 3 years ago.

There's a lot of cool stuff being built, but also as a user, it's a scary time to be trying new things.

I used to have a GT3...it was a dream car of mine and I finally got it. The sad reality was that in order to have fun with it on public roads I was either going to kill myself/someone else, or go to jail. The only way to really experience that car in a responsible way was to go to the track. Which I just flat out didn't have the time to do with young kids.

Things were very different 20-30 years ago. Roads were less crowded and people were much more respectful on the road. Now, especially where I live, it's a free for all Mad Max cosplay.