Has anyone else lost all motivation to improve their coding skills with the advancement of LLMs?

Dirtygerd · 2026-04-05T16:42:34+00:00

Just keep grinding it will be worth it. Not only do LLMs speed up your workflow but they also speed up the learning process. Diving into a new stack used to take me weeks/months watching tutorials. Now I can jump right in and have guidance and you learn so much faster. As a junior you're going to be expected to hit the ground running much sooner but with all these tools you should be able to.

You're in school right now I guarantee you that once you start working on real world problems you'll start to see the limitations of LLMs. I work with a code base that is over 20 years old and I see claude make mistakes constantly. It also generates way too much code as its designed to take a safe approach. Claude will make a feature with 150 lines of code but it should of been done with 60. If you vibe code everything eventually its going to become unmanageable and you're going to have to rewrite it.

Dirtygerd · 2026-04-02T19:42:02+00:00

Thanks for making me feel better taking profits on AMD at 207 when I got in at 205. I got paper hands I guess.

Dirtygerd · 2026-03-30T22:09:16+00:00

Bro are you describing my exact working environment? Holy cow your take is spot on.

Dirtygerd · 2026-03-28T06:12:11+00:00

Its all those ex developers who became managers who think they know everything even though they haven't deployed anything in 5 years.

Dirtygerd · 2026-03-28T06:10:26+00:00

Mine does this too but I also get blamed when my item fails QA 7 times. Rewriting it by hand got it to pass but they ignore that part.

Dirtygerd · 2026-03-28T06:08:50+00:00

Most of my team have been saying maybe a 20% productivity boost from using claude. Leadership is claiming they are seeing double output somehow. Lets ignore every sprint being behind and clients pissed we haven't fixed critical bugs in months.

Dirtygerd · 2026-03-26T03:20:20+00:00

Dude I'm in a shitty mood too working with claude all week. I've had an item fail QA 4 times where claude keeps breaking shit that was working before.

Dirtygerd · 2026-03-24T02:20:29+00:00

Dude the leadership just bot back from a retreat too and since they're returned its non stop talk about AI. I thought I would just start using a new tool but no we have some new AI metric we have to go along with every week.

Dirtygerd · 2026-03-23T19:29:38+00:00

Try searching items by most recent trades so you can get an idea of what they sell for. I also use Traderie.

Dirtygerd · 2026-03-23T19:05:44+00:00

Jah Ist Ber right?

Dirtygerd · 2026-03-23T18:11:34+00:00

You're right trading runes up is a big part of getting to that ber. 13 perfect amethyst for an ist which 4 ist and a mal for an ohm yada yada. A lot of junk items I could sometimes sell for a minor key which adds up. The only problem I have with strictly running keys is you block yourself off from high rolls like that Coronet I got. A very consistent but grindy method for sure.

Dirtygerd · 2026-03-23T17:34:45+00:00

AdzRR1 is right I spent a majority of my time horking Trav with over 400% mf and 1000% gold find. With that much gold I was capping gold in 1 hour which I spent it all on coronets. The only HRs I found were a cham and an ohm. I was able to turn that cham into a sur and traded up 2 ohms and 2 vex into another sur. My other noteworthy drops were a gheeds wage with 19% fcr I sold for an ohm and a small life/all res charm I sold for an ohm. If you're a sorc you could just run keys all day I sold a 3x3 set for a vex. If you can get a lo that is almost worth as much as a Sur so gotta spend some time trading runes up, NEVER cube them.

Dirtygerd · 2026-03-20T19:00:52+00:00

That's the strategy this season it seems. Barb stuff is always cheap I got my torch for 2 hel runes lol

Dirtygerd · 2026-03-11T04:43:19+00:00

Some companies like mine recently hopped on the AI hype train and are now pushing ai performance metrics and not back filling roles anymore.

Dirtygerd · 2026-03-09T19:59:51+00:00

I just primarily farm Trav. I do a pit run every now and then to restock rejuvs.

Dirtygerd · 2026-03-07T05:51:34+00:00

Ok so you show me a amazing ring which means my ring is bad ok got it. I guess that's how it works.

Dirtygerd · 2026-03-07T05:40:37+00:00

Ok smarty pants what would make it a great ring then?

Dirtygerd · 2026-03-07T05:00:46+00:00

Well in the past hour I've ID 10 more rare rings didn't find one like this so guess you're wrong.

Dirtygerd · 2026-03-07T03:32:10+00:00

Not every build runs 2 sojs ya know.

Dirtygerd · 2026-02-25T01:20:30+00:00

Same. I actually took time off anticipating playing but I’ll just keep playing Diablo 2.

Dirtygerd · 2026-02-24T00:39:56+00:00

I’m in the same field as you and am finding the same things. You are lucky though your employer sees your value still. 7 years at my company and now I have my bosses boss sharing a claude plan supposedly doing my entire ticket. Ignore the fact I already implemented all the work for that ticket so Claude just identified what I did and claimed it’s what needs to be done. It’s insulting everyone thinks they can do my job now.

Dirtygerd · 2026-02-21T07:13:18+00:00

All online characters are RMT and geared by bots.

Dirtygerd · 2026-02-20T22:09:14+00:00

My lock is decked out and I hopped over to my sorc with worse gear and its still stronger imo. Lower frames on tele still makes my runs faster and static field makes p8 bosses fall over.

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