Developer details why he quit Claude Code and agentic coding

A 20-year programming veteran says 18 months of LLM-powered coding harnesses like Claude Code pushed him out, citing negative impacts on the environment, society, and his mental health. He earlier found GitHub Copilot distracting and saw a colleague's LLM hallucinate a software library that didn't exist.
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