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Re: Ask HN: How is AI-assisted coding going for you professionally?

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Post by cdelsolar »

csto12 wrote: post #105
turlockmike wrote: post #96

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I have read comments about this on X, here, and other places, yet I have ever seen there be proof this is an actual productivity boost. I use Claude Opus (4.5, 4.6) all the time and catch it making making subtle mistakes, all the time. Are you really being more productive (let’s say 3x times more), or just feel that way because you are constantly prompting Claude? Maybe I’m wrong, but I don’t buy it.

i really don't understand why people keep thinking this. i'm easily 10x more productive since Claude Code came out. it's insane how much stuff you can build quickly, especially on personal projects.

Re: Ask HN: How is AI-assisted coding going for you professionally?

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Post by szatkus »

wg0 wrote: post #161
onlyrealcuzzo wrote: post #10

I work at a FAANG. Professionally, I have had almost no luck with it, outside of summarizing design docs or literally just finding something in the code that a simple search might not find: such is this team's code that does X? I am yet to successfully prompt it and get a working commit. Further, I will add that I also don't know any ICs personally who have successfully used it. Though, there's endless posts of peopl…

This checks out logical speaking. The FANG code basis are very large and date back years might not necessarily be using open source frameworks rather in house libraries and frameworks none of which are certainly available to Anthropic or OpenAI hence these models have zero visibility into them. Therefore combined with the fact that these are not reasoning or thinking machines rather probabilistic (image/text) generat…

That's why coding agents usually scans various files to figure out how to work in a particular codebase. I work with very large and old project, and Codex most of time manages to work with our frameworks.

Re: Ask HN: How is AI-assisted coding going for you professionally?

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Post by alchemism »

ctrust wrote: post #131
bitwize wrote: post #86

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This is kinda like that thing about how psychic mediums supposedly can't medium if there's a skeptic in the room. Goes to show that AI really is a modern-day ouija board.

The accurate inferences that can be drawn from subtle linguistic attributes should freak you out more than they do.

Switching one good synonym can send the model off an entirely different direction in response, or so I’ve observed.

Re: Ask HN: How is AI-assisted coding going for you professionally?

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Post by ecopoesis »

I'm a manager at a large consumer website. My team and I have built a harness that uses headless Claude's (running Opus) to do ticket work, respond to and fix PR comments, and fix CI test failures. Our only interaction with code is writing specs in Jira tickets (which we primarily do via local Claudes) and adding PR comments to GitHub PRs.

The speed we can move at is astounding. We're going to finish our backlog next quarter. We're conservatively planning on launching 3x as many features next quarter.

Claude is far from perfect: it's made us reassess our coding standards since code is primarily for Claude now, not for humans. So much of what we did was to make code easier for the next dev, and that just doesn't matter anymore.

Re: Ask HN: How is AI-assisted coding going for you professionally?

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Post by [deleted] »

fastasucan wrote: post #117

It makes my work suck, sadly. Team dynamics also contributes to that, admittedly. Last year I was working on implementing a pretty big feature in our codebase, it required a lot of focus to get the business logic right and at the same time you had be very creative to make this feasible to run without hogging to much resources. When I was nearly done and worked on catching bugs, team members grew tired of waiting and…

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Re: Ask HN: How is AI-assisted coding going for you professionally?

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Post by HorizonXP »

dvfjsdhgfv wrote: post #147
HorizonXP wrote: post #103

I am having the greatest time professionally with AI coding. I now have the engineering team I’ve always dreamed of. In the last 2 months I have created: - a web-based app for a F500 client for a workflow they’ve been trying to build for 2 years; won the contract - built an iPad app for same client for their sales teams to use - built the engineering agent platform that I’m going to raise funding - a side project to…

> - a side project to do rough cuts of family travel videos ( https://usefirstcut.com , soft launch video: https://x.com/xitijpatel/status/2026025051573686429 ) I can't comment about the quality of the code you delivered for your client so I checked your side project. Unfortunately it looks like there is only a landing page (very nice!) but the way from a vibe-coded project to production is usually quite long.

Not wrong at all, that’s why I’m building my own platform for this. That’s also why I haven’t publicly done much on First Cut yet. I’m using my platform to actually build the product, so the intent is that I use my expertise and oversight to ensure it’s not just slop code. So most of the effort has gone into building that platform, which has made building First Cut itself slower. But I’ve actually got my platform running well-enough that now my team is able to get involved, and I can start to work on First Cut again, which means that I should be able to answer your “concern” definitively. I share it.

Re: Ask HN: How is AI-assisted coding going for you professionally?

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Post by Aurornis »

ramraj07 wrote: post #75
hdhdhsjsbdh wrote: post #13

It has made my job an awful slog, and my personal projects move faster. At work, the devs up the chain now do everything with AI – not just coding – then task me with cleaning it up. It is painful and time consuming, the code base is a mess. In one case I had to merge a feature from one team into the main code base, but the feature was AI coded so it did not obey the API design of the main project. It also included a…

If you dont take a stand and refuse to clean their mess, aren't you part of the problem? No self respecting proponent of AI enabled development should suggest that the engineers generating the code are still not personally responsible for its quality.

> and refuse to clean their mess

You can should speak up when tasks are poorly defined, underestimated, or miscommunicated.

Try to flat out “refuse” assigned work and you’ll be swept away in the next round of layoffs, replaced by someone who knows how to communicate and behave diplomatically.

Re: Ask HN: How is AI-assisted coding going for you professionally?

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Post by Aurornis »

ramraj07 wrote: post #180
oh_my_goodness wrote: post #170

Earlier quoted context omitted.

"aren't you part of the problem?" Yes? In the same way any victim of shoddy practices is "part of the problem"?

Employees, especially ones as well leveraged and overpaid as software engineers, are not victims. They can leave. They _should_ leave. Great engineers are still able to bet better paying jobs all the time.

> Great engineers are still able to bet better paying jobs all the time

I know a lot of people who tried playing this game frequently during COVID, then found themselves stuck in a bad place when the 0% money ran out and companies weren’t eager in hiring someone whose resume had a dozen jobs in the past 6 years.

Re: Ask HN: How is AI-assisted coding going for you professionally?

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Post by keithnz »

Pretty good, we have a huge number of projects, some more modern than others. For the older legacy systems, it's been hugely useful. Not perfect, needs a bit more babysitting, but a lot easier to deal with than doing it solo. For the newer things, they can mostly be done solely by AI, so more time spent just speccing / designing the system than coding. But every week we are working out better and batter ways of working with AI, so it's an evolving process at the moment
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