I feel like this past March will be known forever as the ultimate honeymoon phase with AI. It was the month when almost every single dev and their mother were hopping onto Claude Code and just being utterly astounded. People we were up working until 2am and talking about Claude psychosis and the possibilities were literally endless. It really felt like the world was coming to an end (in a good way). But I feel like April was the month where a lot of people got hit with a reality check. Basically realizing that no AI was not going to do absolutely everything for you. That combined with compute hitting physical limits, and we got one of the fastest 180s I have ever seen in the tech field. Now instead of posts about people claiming they had never felt so giddy in their lives, we get posts about how Claude is unable to hold a 500k line codebase into its context window and how it was unable to make someone’s B2B SaaS up and running in less than a day. This may also just be due to the fact that there is just more of an influx of vibecoders versus actual devs. But either way, I have felt it myself where the early giddiness is definitely fading away, and now I almost feel like this nagging guilt when I am trying to relax where my brain goes: “You could be running another agent right now…” And so it almost feels stressful in a way that it wasn’t before. Another thing is that whereas before, when Claude messed up, it was almost cute. The same way you watch her toddler child throw a baseball incorrectly or something. It was like, “Well ofc it can’t be perfect!” But now we have had enough time where those mistakes are just not cute anymore and we end up screaming in all caps at our agent. It’s like the difference between a toddler’s brain that is smarter everyday just due to pure biology, versus a toddler’s brain , who yes is an amazing being, but that is almost robotically stuck in place and you have to handhold them through their mistakes every damn time. submitted by /u/OpinionsRdumb
Originally posted by u/OpinionsRdumb on r/ClaudeCode
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