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NoClaude · 17 Oct 2025

Claude has robbed me of that joy, which is why I got into software engineering

sotix on Hacker News

In the thread “Claude Skills”

Got in the way: Lost the 'aha moment' joy of problem solving.

I've been using Claude at work for the past two months, and the other day I realized that during that time, I haven't had my previously weekly aha moment while in the shower or on a walk where the solution to a problem suddenly came to me. Claude has robbed me of that joy, which is why I got into software engineering. Now I review its slop or the slop that other engineers make with it. …