Hi folks, I find myself in a peculiar situation. First, coding has become fun and so addicting since the release of AI agents. Goalposts have shifted and I have not written code by hand since a few months. On the other hand, I would usually do some small side projects to learn about new things or systems. E.g. implement a little MapReduce system, implement some data structure from scratch. Now Claude can one shot all of this, so I can’t bring up the determination to actually do it myself. It feels like so much wasted time to spend 2 days on implementing something that Claude can oneshot in 2 minutes. Additionally, it is now possible to do much larger learning projects (e.g. you could implement your own database or re-implement AWS Lambda or something). But are you actually learning something when doing that? Claude can probably come up with the design, it can implement the system and it can test it. I’m a bit lost. I want to continue growing my skills and deepening my expertise, but I can’t find a good modus operandi for that. I’d like to hear your opinions/experiences on that. submitted by /u/kritap55
Originally posted by u/kritap55 on r/ClaudeCode
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