Pausing New Challenges – Codecrafters

https://codecrafters.io/blog/pausing-new-challenges

by prakashqwerty • 2 months ago

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0xpgm2• 2 months ago

You'd think all these executives making investments into Agentic coding would throw money at something like Codecrafters so that their engineers ramp up their design and architecture skills.

tevli• 2 months ago

Its really sad that a platform like this is having problems; they are a better version of leetcode that actually incentivizes users to learn and not just cram solutions.

gorgmah• 2 months ago

It's true that AI is making traditional algorithmic abilities matter less in the job market, so people naturally are less drawn to it. Just look at the stackoverflow demise story: SO is also a community for people who like solving coding issues, and they are experiencing a really steep decline in traffic.

But I think the other, maybe even more significant issue is that the market for coding-related tools and services is completely oversaturated these days. I recently saw that the daily launches on producthunt increased 20 fold due to AI. The market for pure software stuff is extremely competitive nowadays.

javiermolinar• 2 months ago

Really sad. I completed SQLite this year and I absolutely loved it. At the same time, I am no longer coding by hand and am realizing that it's almost impossible to learn anything new vibecoding. There are no incentives for that.

manoji• 2 months ago

Yes , I had so much fun implementing sqlite from the scratch . Incidentially it was right about the time I started trying claude code. I did the last challenge in sqlite to scan with an index using claude code and I was blown away. It actually solved it.

alyxya• 2 months ago

An alternative I've tried is to ask Claude Code to create programming exercises or challenges on some topic and then ask it to check my work after every step while giving feedback. It worked surprisingly well, so this is the right call for CodeCrafters because AI is far more effective and cheaper at creating educational content and being a personal tutor.

0xpgm2• 2 months ago

It would depend on the complexity of the challenge. Knowing that a knowledgeable human took the time to verify the project/exercise gives a learner confidence that they are in the right track, not going down a path of hallucinations

ashishgupta2200• 2 months ago

i didn't want this

zane__chen• 2 months ago

It's really said to hear that making this as a business did not work well. Codecrafter has helped me learn new skills and gain confidence as a developer. Help me grow from a junior to senior.

SwiftyBug• 2 months ago

This is sad. I had a blast implementing my own interpreter from scratch. I saw, first hand, the effort Sarup put in trying to make CodeCrafters thrive. We had a few product feedback video chats, which were all much enjoyable. I tried to get my current employer to pay for CodeCrafters for the engineering team, but, as others in this thread already said, it's hard to justify this spending these days because of AI. Honestly, I think that it's a little short-sighted of the companies to not invest in hard skills for their employees, now more than ever. I definitely became a better engineer with the help of CodeCrafters.

kaycey2022• 2 months ago

Last 6 months vibecoding, I feel I have learned very little. You learn things like a high level executive or a manager. I can describe things at a very high level, but remain clueless how things work at the implementation level. It is just whatever code quality, architecture, common sense I learned earlier is carrying me through. Platforms like Codecrafters will be badly missed.

elisalimli• 2 months ago

sad

Pausing New Challenges – Codecrafters

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