I miss writing code.

January 30, 2026

5 min read

I miss struggling with code.

There was a time say building an admin dashboard would be considered at the bare minimum a whole sprints worth of work, and your project manager would probably agree on it. Not anymore though, we suddenly have an influx of these really really powerful tools at our disposable now that you're just assumed to have 100x productivity. I remember not very long ago, early 2025 my then manager said think of AI as a junior developer at your disposal. Well, my junior is now spitting code out at the speed of light. I am the bottleneck now.

I've had hours at my work desk where all I've done is hit enter after enter, and the occasional up arrow while using claude code from the CLI,
Now I'm neither an AI maximalist nor a minimalist, I think I fairly use it a lot to the point that I dont remember the last time I wrote a UI component from scratch but it's just not the same anymore?

I find myself losing focus

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