I caught myself asking claude how to write a debounce function last week, a DEBOUNCE function, I’ve written that thing from scratch probably 30 times since like 2015 so im 11 years in. Six months ago reviewing was maybe a fifth of my day, now it’s most of it. The juniors prompt their way through features with Cursor or Claude Code, coderabbit does the first pass so the nitpicky stuff is gone before I even open the PR, and I just sit there all day checking architecture and business logic like some kind of code customs officer. And the weird thing is I’m genuinely better at reviewing now. I catch stuff across PRs I never used to, two people quietly building the same helper in different corners of the repo, a refactor that changes behavior nobody asked it to change. That’s a real skill and it’s sharper than ever. But the writing muscle is going and I can feel it going. I sat down to build a small thing for myself last weekend, no deadline, nobody waiting on it, and I kept reaching for the agent to scaffold it. I forced myself to do it by hand and it was slow and clumsy and kind of embarrassing (not fishing for “just practice more lol” btw, I know) I know the job is shipping working software and not suffering for the craft. Still feels like losing something anyone else deep in review mode and noticing this submitted by /u/Downtown-Function-10
Originally posted by u/Downtown-Function-10 on r/ClaudeCode
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