I don't code at all now, but I did before, in trading and algo development. I was never a very good coder, but I put in the effort to get the job done. Later I hired and worked with developers on algos and software, until AI coding got good enough that my own output with AI overtook the devs I worked with. It didn't happen right away. It took me a while to get up to speed, alongside the models getting better, but that's been the real transition for me.

Sure, there are times in a familiar codebase that it would take Claude or any model longer to get its bearings and chew on all the random nonsense it wants to think about even for small changes than it takes me to open vim and make a one line change.

And, sometimes, I know models will write it in a way I don't like, over-engineering is common.

But, I mostly use models for more than few lines of code or code that isn't in a familiar project.

> I can’t find a reason to anymore that’s actually necessary

The huge environmental and societal cost of LLMs, maybe?

Why do these questions implying writing code is a thing of the past keep coming?

Anthropic pretend in their S1 filling that they spend $3B in marketing, there's no need to help them really.

Jobless and interviewing, hence I am writing some code.

Yes, mostly at work. But that's mainly because we're an MSP and our clients have a no-AI policy, but even otherwise, I don't imagine our clients will be very happy with us running agents against their systems/data or introduce unvetted slop into the environment.

At home, I manually create utility apps for personal and family use using niche languages like GAMBAS (a VB6 clone), and I've found that AI isn't really good at it. Besides, with the kind of simple utilities I make, it's far more easier to just do it myself than to fight with the AI (and then there's also the issue of long-term maintenance - if it's something I coded, it's far more easier for me to fix it, update it etc than to rely on AI for eternity).

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