I do get to think in higher levels now, which is kind of fun
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Helped: Writing TLA+ and Mermaid specs for Claude to implement.
Got in the way: Losing the joy of writing actual code implementation by hand.
… It's not all bad; I never got any enjoyment out of the initial bullshit of getting the initial project and configurations set up or futzing with configuration files, but I did get joy out of writing the actual implementation of the code, and now I don't get to do that much anymore. A silver lining though; I do get to think in higher levels now, which is kind of fun. A lot of what I get to do now is write stuff in TLA+ and/or Mermaid (depending on the complexity and how much fancy concurrency I want to do), feed that into Claude, and get it to implement that. …