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Cursor and Claude Code are by themselves awful engineers, who at best just save me a lot of keystrokes.
I recently used Claude to help me understand a math-dense research paper. It was useful for answering general questions about the structure of the algorithm, where to find information in the paper, and gain a high level/intuitive understanding of how the algorithm worked. It was absolutely abysmal at implementing the code, and would regularly make things up when I probed it about subtleties in the math. Overall, it s…
I mostly used it for exploratory analysis of tools/libraries I am not familiar with, where it points me the parts of the API docs I need to lookup to verify the output. Then I manually adapt or rewrite it. So in the end I use it fairly often when setting up new things (new infra, new files, new tools, new functions, etc). Although the time it saves is not coding time, but googling/boilerplating time. But in practice…
Basically, no one cares.
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I mostly used it for exploratory analysis of tools/libraries I am not familiar with, where it points me the parts of the API docs I need to lookup to verify the output. Then I manually adapt or rewrite it. So in the end I use it fairly often when setting up new things (new infra, new files, new tools, new functions, etc). Although the time it saves is not coding time, but googling/boilerplating time. But in practice…
Some project do have nice documentation that is a pleasure to use. Laravel's documentation, Postgres'one,... Even if I can get an answer faster with google search and now LLMs, I just open the main documentation site and spend an extra 5 minutes looking around.
For example, I use it quite a lot when setting up new terraform configuration on resources I am not super familiar with, it often points me out to resources and options I didn't know existed. Of course I always look up everything it spits out (it pretty much never outputs something that actually runs anyway and even when it does it doesn't work out of the bat).
But once the thing is set up, it is almost useless to use it to make small changes.
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Some project do have nice documentation that is a pleasure to use. Laravel's documentation, Postgres'one,... Even if I can get an answer faster with google search and now LLMs, I just open the main documentation site and spend an extra 5 minutes looking around.
I mean it more points me about stuff I don't know that I don't know. For example, I use it quite a lot when setting up new terraform configuration on resources I am not super familiar with, it often points me out to resources and options I didn't know existed. Of course I always look up everything it spits out (it pretty much never outputs something that actually runs anyway and even when it does it doesn't work out…
Our last CIO bought into all the AI hype early on and pushed it hard, before we were even allowed to use it. It was an odd time. We’d go to a town hall and get told that AI is going to change everything, and then get an email telling us we weren’t allowed to use it. Now that we can use Copilot, we have a new CIO and I don’t hear about it so much. There is still some AI hype, but it’s more about how it’s being used in…
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> Those "experienced" actually are just senior code monkeys if u ask me, it's trivial right Well, it seems you are not open for discussion. There is no reason to disparage the senior devs that participated in the study just because you don't like the results of the study. But the study happened, and it is clear: experienced developers are the ones that suffered from using LLMs. > but it's just illogical for a junior…
Productivity could just be simple automation. U just describe one part of the whole process. My point stands still. If u cannot get llm to benefit u, u are the problem.
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> No, it's just logical, LLM is a useful tool How open are you to the possibility that it's the other way around? Because the study suggests that it's actually junior code monkeys that benefit from LLMs, and experienced software engineers don't instead get a decline of their productivity. At least that's what the only available study so far shows. That's corroborated with my experience mentoring juniors, the more the…
Those "experienced" actually are just senior code monkeys if u ask me, it's trivial right ? I don't assume the reason why, but it's just illogical for a junior to get benefits and the seniors don't. The wrong ones here is the "experienced". I know how to use the AI tools for my purpose (that's why i use them), and of course, to make the impossible possible. Even if i failed to do so, it's not the decrease in producti…
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I was thinking of doing something similar. I think I’m well positioned for this as I have a natural ability to juggle many contexts, I used to run a software agency, and I’m pretty good at architecture early on which means solutions come out more robust and flexible. I have had really good experience with AI tools and I’m constantly evolving my workflows. I’m wondering how did you land your current gigs? Thank you.
I land most of my clients by maintaining my blog and a github with open source projects. I have build a lot of general purpose MCPs and quite some tools, which are all written by Claude (3.5 and 4.0) and now GPT5. On my blog I just blog together with AI. It sounds silly, yes... I don't want to share it here publicly, but it looks good and it gets me people in my inbox (email/linkedin). So I post on LinkedIn & Reddit,…