I didn't enjoy spending two nights fighting with a shitty API and trying to figure out why it doesn't work.

Now I can do it with Claude within minutes, while watching my TV shows on the second monitor and get directly to the good bits, the actual "business logic" of whatever I'm building.

I obviously meant "work with it" not work in general.

And as for old, I'm 47. I've been programming since I got my first C64 in 1985.

If a tool craps out after 30 minutes every day, and someone knows they can't rely upon it to work when you needed it, they tend to change workflow to avoid the tool entirely.

Context switching between AI-assisted coding and "oops, my tool is refusing to function, guess I'll stop using it" is often worse for productivity than never using the AI to begin with.