AI Coding Is Crazy Yo...

[Adam M]

I'm not a coder. I'm just interested in the field. 

Recently the rise of "agentic AI" has created the possibility of feeding and AI stupid simple prompts... and having it create entire websites or applications within minutes or hours depending on the complexity.

It's really insane and is such a juicy moral-ethical, spiritual debate to be had.

Here is what I'm seeing so far:

Coding With Claude Requires Basically No-Effort:
 

this guy, Anrej Karpathy is one of the leading AI coders and helped build ChatGPT.

The way he talks to and uses his AI agents are wild. Speaking in super simple language like "build the thing" and having Claude figure out the rest. It's actually insane.

His recent blog post explains how he made this YouTube clone called HackerTube.org that basically just feeds people the exact videos that are in the Hacker niche of interest.

It's really cool, honestly, and the website functions pretty flawlessly from my limited testing.

[imagine being able to ask Claude to code your own website (that actually works this well) within a few hours. WTF?]

 

Here's a pretty good demonstration of how it might look to code something with Claude:

it's a bit of a long video but it basically explains and demonstrates how Claude coded this app that he's making (within 6 hours).

4:53 is the timestamp.

 

The Moral Philosophical Implications:

Is this even worth it? 
 

This video explains the depression and loss of purpose that comes from someone who actually really enjoys coding and refused to use AI in his process because it takes away from the artistry and enjoyment of the craft.

I don't know?

I made a short little blog post that explains a little bit of the philosophical and moral implications that I have on this overall idea, it's a short read, I hope you don't mind me sharing.

Anyways, what to make of all this?

Things are changing quickly in the world of technology and coding... and the question is...

Who's gonna power all those damn GPU's 😂😂😂

Anyways, peace and love, all

Would love to know what you think about this!

Sincerely,
Adam ❤️

[Leo Gura]

AI is good for making things that are cookie-cutter.

[integral]

@Adam M i worked as a developer most of my life, i have a degree is software engineering.

Claude Opus 5.5 is better then 99.9% of software developers and has replaced all coders.

No one writes code anymore, but they do review code and make sure the AI is not messing up in larger software.

You are now a software engineer that can build absolutely anything 10x faster then someone of 3 years ago.

It struggles with design so first give it images of really nice design you want then let it cook. 

Edited Sunday at 06:02 PM by integral

[integral]

20 hours ago, Adam M said:

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The Moral Philosophical Implications:

Is this even worth it? 
 

This video explains the depression and loss of purpose that comes from someone who actually really enjoys coding and refused to use AI in his process because it takes away from the artistry and enjoyment of the craft.

I fully understand what he's saying because I've experienced the same thing. The problem is you can still get the AI to stress test a system in the code far beyond any normal human can do it and they're really, really good at it. So if you know what you're doing, the AI is still a better workflow than any human workflow.

It's a misconception that humans before AI were not writing SLOP. Humans were already writing SLOP code before ai.

Edited Sunday at 06:07 PM by integral

[integral]

It can also make animated youtube videos.

[pablo_aka_god]

I wonder if it's possible to get the same joy we got from coding from building powerful AI systems.

Maybe it's the new coding and it can be as much as a craft as coding manually?

 

 

[Adam M]

7 hours ago, integral said:

@Adam M i worked as a developer most of my life, i have a degree is software engineering.

Claude Opus 5.5 is better then 99.9% of software developers and has replaced all coders.

No one writes code anymore, but they do review code and make sure the AI is not messing up in larger software.

You are now a software engineer that can build absolutely anything 10x faster then someone of 3 years ago.

It struggles with design so first give it images of really nice design you want then let it cook. 

Thanks for your reply. Yeah, this makes sense and this is what I’m seeing, there’s no question that the world of coding and development is changed forever.

 

The greater philosophical question is how far do we take it? Do we allow AI to be able to improve upon itself? Even many of the leading AI heads like Sam Altman are saying that they may lose control of AI once it begins to improve upon itself. It’s scary, and I think we need more regulation, but I don’t see it happening in the near future.

 

You’re definitely right about the coding thing, and I’m wanting to get into vibe coding myself, even as someone with 0 tech experience, just as a fun hobby, haha. 😂

[Jirh]

I think AI is great for scaffolding.

Coating and polishing and finishing and maintaining a product must be done by hand. Whether that hand uses AI or not does not matter. What matters is that it has experience and understanding.

Edited yesterday at 08:39 AM by Jirh

[Adam M]

On 2026-11-08 at 2:23 PM, pablo_aka_god said:

I wonder if it's possible to get the same joy we got from coding from building powerful AI systems.

Maybe it's the new coding and it can be as much as a craft as coding manually?

 

 

This is a good point! I think some people will definitely be super passionate about this (like myself). 

 

I like when things are done and out in the world helping people. Not spending months fiddling with technicalities with my monkey hands.

[Leo Gura]

I know that making images with Midjourney is frustrating and soul-draining af. I dread logging into Midjourney.

If coding has become that, eeek. 

Babysitting an AI is not good for the soul.

Edited 17 hours ago by Leo Gura

[Adam M]

2 hours ago, Leo Gura said:

I know that making images with Midjourney is frustrating and soul-draining af. I dread logging into Midjourney.

If coding has become that, eeek. 

Babysitting an AI is not good for the soul.

I see what you mean, I definitely don’t like using AI for any sort of creative work that I’m passionate about. I’d rather make the image with my divine monkey hands using Canva or something like that, even if it technically sucks, the process is enjoyable and that’s what matters.

The way I see AI agents working in the future is helping you with administrative tasks, like updating your server, installing certain softwares on your server, building tools for you.

Something that you would typically hire a human agent to do for you (like the editor for your clips channel). 

Possibilities I’m thinking about for me are:

- sending the AI a list of all your favorite articles you read this week, and have it post it to your website, organized by category (that way you can get dozens of articles up there without having to organize it all yourself)

- getting it to set up remote storage for me on a private server

… I’m not actually gonna list everything out because the possibilities are so infinite, it’s insane. 
 

I think agentic AI is fantastic for speeding up mundane administrative work, so that you can stay close to the creative work that you really enjoy  

 

Edit: it can smooth out the technical implementation of many internet-based ideas.

Edited 15 hours ago by Adam M

[bazera]

14 hours ago, Leo Gura said:

I know that making images with Midjourney is frustrating and soul-draining af. I dread logging into Midjourney.

If coding has become that, eeek. 

Babysitting an AI is not good for the soul.

I think it depends on the medium, coding is different from creating images in ways that it makes difference if AI is used or not. AI coding allows you to build stuff without micromanaging nitty-gritty aspects of coding, and if you know what you're doing (meaning you've coded a lot pre-AI), you can build great stuff, and still satisfy that architectural / builder needs in you that you got from coding from scratch.

But yeah, for some people coding itself was passion, no matter what they coded, the code itself was an art, and that's being lost. In that sense, it's soulless.