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ADHD, coding and the dopamine hit with AI tooling (feddit.org)

submitted 4 days ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Hey all,

not sure if this is an ADHD thing, but it feels like it is. So, I'm a mid/senior level engineer who's been coding professionally for a while now. Before LLMs dropped, I used to get a legit dopamine kick from fixing even the tiniest bugs and getting things to compile. Tedious debugging and diving into docs? Bring it on! It was all part of the fun.

But ever since LLMs came along, that spark has kinda vanished. I feel like my skills are fading by the day. It's like I can't bring myself to code manually or look things up anymore. I know exactly what to ask LLMs and how to fix issues, but the thought of doing it all manually? No thanks.

Now, the only time I get that dopamine hit is when I can implement entire features that should take days in just a few prompts. Anything less feels like a waste of time. I hate feeling so dependent on it, especially since I know the code it spits out isn't always top-notch. I know how to fix it, but I just can't bring myself to do it. Especially tools like Cursor with its agentic coding make it even harder for me to leave prompts behind.

Coding used to be my passion, and now it feels like LLMs has messed with that while boosting my output. Anyone else feeling this way? Any thoughts or advice?

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Has it genuinely boosted output? It’s been a while since I used copilot, but the code always required checking. More importantly, the interactions between the code provided by the prompt and the other code it’s working with. Has that all gone now and you can just straight rely on what it spits out?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 days ago

Haven't used llms in bigger projects, but they work realy well with code snippets. I imagine the quality decreases drasticly with size of the project.