Done with writing code from scratch, moving to AI stack - A realization
Been maintaining this massive spaghetti codebase since 2019 and hated everything about how my org built it. This job ( more like the legacy code here) taught me what software engineering is, how to debug, whats a real headache like. Made many memories, late night deployments were stressful. Refactored, tested and then deployed. So this codebase has given me a lot. But in hindsight it takes a way a lot also -
- Everybody is in constant fix mode, even in standups its just about who is patching what
- Everybody is in copy paste mode here - i have seen devs just pull bad code in front of me, then the code apparently has memory leaks in them
- Tech debt/spaghetti/dependencies - we all know whats up with them
Though it was nice initially, now i feel like even after typing so much if i just spend all my time fixing old logic, what is the point even.
Hence making a move to Cursor with Claude 4.7 today ( thursday ), where it holds the entire context without hallucinating once and you can actually develop some features.
This urge to always write from scratch is not really needed, we all eventually work towards shipping and hence if i code less but review even more, its more or less the same thing for me.
But i dont want to live in a terminal, travel through 50 files to find a bug, write boilerplate for 150lines and be in constant anxiety about breaking the build.
All i want is to focus on logic, sit in my chair and enjoy a cup of tea.
So yes, I AM DONE. Honestly feeling more like a reviewer than an actual dev these days.
Whats your current AI stack for daily work? Happy to answer any questions if anybody has any.
