I miss my code

I use claude at work. I’m on a small team and my manager requested that I use it, so for now, I’ve started using it.

One thing I’ve noticed with using an LLM is that with the frenetic pace of progress it pretends to provide, it makes you spend less time with your code. Deep understanding of the inner details of your code is much easier obtained while you sit among the code building it by hand. LLMs don’t prevent you from knowing whats going on. That knowledge, though, is now not built by experience and must be obtained afterward, from the perspective of an inspector, not the builder.

While I’m okay with inspecting output before making pull requests for company projects, I much prefer being able to look back at my personal projects and feel the familiarity that only comes from meticulous manual labor.