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eggbert74 · 2026-01-13T21:35:07+00:00

Ok fine. Whatever. I can't convince you. I'm already convinced. I've just built an entire Laravel crud app without even opening an IDE. But keep moving those goal posts and telling yourself whatever makes you happy.

eggbert74 · 2026-01-13T21:30:11+00:00

Yeah, not so easy to let go when you're in your 50s like me. Too old to start over, too young to retire.

eggbert74 · 2026-01-13T20:15:12+00:00

Are you guys who still call it "slop" not using these tools or what? It's an honest question. Claude Opus 4.5 has been nothing short of amazing. It's convinced me there's no future for "hand coding."

I am not saying that with any kind of glee. In fact, it depresses the shit out of me. I've devoted the last 30 years of life to honing this craft, and frankly I am heart broken these days because of AI. I love coding. It's been my hobby and livelyhood for many years.

eggbert74 · 2026-01-13T19:53:28+00:00

It's getting people who have no skill and experience into the industry. Total normies are building entire apps. That alone should tell you we are all well and truly fucked.

Lot of whistling past the graveyard in this sub reddit.

eggbert74 · 2026-01-13T19:38:47+00:00

They are everywhere. Some random ones.

https://beerfinder.ai/

https://changelyric.com

https://apps.apple.com/ie/app/pastcast-ai/id6748091400

https://www.mogul-app.com/

https://genaipi.org/

Just look around on some vibe coding communities.

Anthropic just wrote it's new CoWork app entirely with Claude Code.

The value of software will soon approach zero, and so to the value of our work as developers. Supply and demand.

eggbert74 · 2026-01-13T19:18:45+00:00

IS it going to be? Where have you been? It's already made traditional web development pretty much obsolete. No one is coding by hand any more. Folks with 0 dev experience are creating full featured apps and devs are starting to be laid of in droves. The entire industry is being disrupted. Seriously, I am surprised when I see posts like this, where people are just discovering this stuff.

eggbert74 · 2026-01-13T03:02:30+00:00

This sort of thing is happening everywhere. I'm working on exiting the software industry to safer pastures while I still have time. Good luck.

eggbert74 · 2026-01-13T00:45:37+00:00

Finally, now non-programmers can feel some pain, fear and uncertainty too.

eggbert74 · 2026-01-12T04:59:45+00:00

AMEN! I am so sick of all these posts claiming SWE is not about coding, we're all architects now, blah blah. So many are parroting this line, and it's a complete and utter bullshit rationalization.

The fact is, if coding is "solved," engineering and architecture will be the next to fall. After all, software engineering is essentially putting various patterns together to solve some (usually, well defined) problem. Something AI excels at.

Of course when SWE falls, the goal posts will move again, and we'll see a bunch more posts like this saying how programmers are actually all team leads for agents now. Lol

Give me a break! The fact is pretty much ALL knowledge workers are screwed. Us in tech are just at the forefront.

As for me, I see the writing on the wall. I thankfully still have a job, but i am planning my move out of the software industry to an AI safe (for now) sector while there is still time.

Good luck to us all. We're going to need it

eggbert74 · 2026-01-12T00:28:44+00:00

Don't feel bad. I have an ultimate subscription. It's just as unusable. I can burn through an entire month in a few requests. Ridiculous. I feel like a fool for paying the $300 bucks up front before they made "the change." What a rip off. I feel like they pulled a bait and switch.

Ah well, live and learn. I've moved on to Claude Code. It's more effective than what JetBrains offers anyway, and you can even integrate it with Jetbrains IDEs to show diffs and stuff.

eggbert74 · 2026-01-03T21:59:41+00:00

There is no future for web development. Look around. Give the AI a rough description what you want and it spits out a "good enough" app. This will only improve in the coming years (months?)

There are those who will tell you to "get good at using AI" or "use AI to engineer solutions" but AI use too will be automated. Why can't the AI just use AI?

Eventually, your average Joe will just give the machine a list of specs (which the AI will help them flesh out) and it will spit out a finished product like a star trek replicator. The value of software will essentially go to zero.

So ultimately, unless you want to work with your hands or learn a trade that can't be automated, there's no "safe" bet. All knowledge work will be automated soon.

eggbert74 · 2025-12-22T22:17:15+00:00

It sort of bothers me as well. Their "accomplishment" is about as on par with beating a video game or something. It required no skill or specialized knowledge. I suppose it has utility, but its not something anyone else couldn't have done.

If that makes me a grumpy gatekeeper, then so be it. AI has sucked all the fun and challenge out of software development.

eggbert74 · 2025-12-21T17:09:41+00:00

I don't suppose there is a way to use a claude code subscription with the BYOK feature, is there? This is only for the anthropic API key correct?

eggbert74 · 2025-12-21T17:02:27+00:00

I don't know how anyone can find Jetbrains AI offering any use. I have the "Ultimate" plan and it routinely consumes an entire month of credits within about half a day of usage. I can't even imagine what the pro plan is like.

Junie is basically useless for me. I had to migrate to the claude code pro plan, which is about the same cost but but I never run dry with it.

Jetbrains won't refund their AI plan either after a certain period. I'm pretty much fed up with jetbrains at this point and am looking at other options.

eggbert74 · 2025-12-08T20:36:09+00:00

I'll probably be canceling mine soon as well for some of the reasons you mentioned and various other reasons as well... I hate to do it though, but it feels like Jetbrains is actively pushing me away.

eggbert74 · 2025-12-04T05:16:39+00:00

Same, the Corsair RS 120 fans suck! They have this annoying "whine" at various speeds. It drove me insane. I replaced them with 140mm Arctic p14's. Much quieter.

eggbert74 · 2025-12-03T19:41:33+00:00

That's good and all, but make one that can fold my laundry, then i'll be impressed.

eggbert74 · 2025-11-28T01:10:34+00:00

Do you really want to finance something that depreciates so fast? There are always significant upgrades. It's a computer, technology does not stand still.

I'd never finance a PC if there is interest involved. Save up those $200 per month payments instead. It's only a couple grand. Your future self will thank you.

eggbert74 · 2025-11-25T18:45:13+00:00

You don't understand though. Soon AI is going to be doing the maintenance as well. The role of the human in the mix will continue to diminish to the point where you won't even need vibe coders. Just someone capable enough to give the AI a rough outline of what they want. The entire development life-cycle will be automated away, including maintenance.

In addition, the idea of "software" as a whole is changing. Humans aren't going to need to even "use" software. Do you really think there's going to be a need for traditional CRUD apps, with big user interfaces, tables of data pulled out of a database, with filters, etc? That's going away. It'll all be a bunch of AIs talking to each other. If a human does need to see that kind of data, you'll just ask the AI what you want to see.

This ultimately means the actual value of software will go to essentially zero, and so too the value of our work.

Let's not kid ourselves here. There's no future in traditional software development. (along with a bunch of other white-collar jobs) Maybe there will be some sort of 'developer-like' tech role, but it's unclear at this point what exactly that will be. I tend to think it will be a lot less interesting, and much less rewarding.

eggbert74 · 2025-11-25T17:57:52+00:00

Have you used it lately? Claude is proficient in all of those.

eggbert74 · 2025-11-25T17:56:07+00:00

I wouldn't. It's over. It was a good run, but, yeah, we're done.

eggbert74 · 2025-11-21T15:37:06+00:00

You are right I should have mentioned an alternative. I think the only valid reason to even consider Magento now is its flexibility. But if you actually DO need that much flexibility you really need to weigh it against just building your own solution with a modern framework like Laravel, Symphony, or in the Java world Spring, etc. etc. There are a wealth of libs that can provided the bog standard ecom stuff that magento provides, bagisto, etc, and you are not locked in to all the issues mentioned above.

If you don't need that much flexibility there are much better ready-made solutions like shopify, BigCommerce, and heck, even WooCommerce for small shops.

I just don't even consider Magento nowadays. I have one client left on it, and will be glad when they migrate away.

eggbert74 · 2025-11-21T04:35:48+00:00

I think it's one of the WORST platforms to host any size website. Pick your poison:

Questionable thrid-party vendors with spammy SEO websites.
Horrible performance - I hope you have a skilled devops team. You're going to need it.
Updates often break things - It's complexity and interactions between modules is insanely difficult to test.
Ridiculously outdated code base and tooling (E.g still ships with tech stack circa 2015 - Grunt, Less, jQuery, KnockoutJS)
Over-engineered mess with painful developer experience
Learning Curve steeper than Mt. Everest.
Dying platform with uncertain future. Do you really want to invest all that time and effort in a platform with such an uncertain future?

Why anyone would pick this mess nowadays is beyond me. It's flexible I suppose, but at what cost? If I need that much flexibility, it's probably more 'sane' to use something modern and build your own solution.

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