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

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

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Post by cluckindan »

ecopoesis wrote: post #244

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…

When is your website going to be complete? Are you sure those features are what the users need? What happens to the team after everything is done? What happens to the site after the team is gone?

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

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Post by MarsIronPI »

viccis wrote: post #268

Haven't seen this mentioned yet, but the worst part for me is that a lot of management LOVES to use Claude to generate 50 page design documents, PRDs, etc., and send them to us to "please review as soon as you can". Nobody reads it, not even the people making it. I'm watching some employees just generate endless slide decks of nonsense and then waffle when asked any specific questions. If any of that is read, it is b…

I've found in my (admittedly limited) use of LLMs that they're great for writing code if I don't forsee a need to review it myself either, but if I'm going to be editing the code myself later I need to be the one writing it. Also LLMs are bad at design.

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

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Post by input_sh »

turlockmike wrote: post #225
sofixa wrote: post #128

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Sounds like tech debt as a service. If the code review is automated, how can you be sure the code isn't full of security or maintanability issues?

https://simonwillison.net/2025/Dec/18/code-proven-to-work/

I'll just quote the author of this blog from this very thread:

> I mainly work as an individual or with one other person - I'm not working as part of a larger team.

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

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Post by cluckindan »

cadamsdotcom wrote: post #265

Models aren’t reliable, and it’s a bottleneck. My solution was to write code to force the model down a deterministic path. It’s open source here: https://codeleash.dev It’s working! ~200k LOC python/typescript codebase built from scratch as I’ve grown out the framework. I probably wrote 500-1000 lines of that, so ~99.5% written by Claude Code. I commit 10k-30k loc per week, code-reviewed and industrial strength quali…

My most productive day last week was a net of -10k lines (yes, minus ten thousand).

No AI used.

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

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Post by queenkjuul »

drrob wrote: post #99
scuff3d wrote: post #24

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The only part AI auto complete I found I really like is when I have a function call that takes like a dozen arguments, and the auto complete can just shove it all together for me. Such a nice little improvement.

My least favourite part of the auto complete is how wordy the comments it wants to create are. I never use the comments it suggests.

I have been begging Claude not to write comments at all since day 1 (it's in the docs, Claude.md, i say the words every session, etc) and it just insists anyway. Then it started deleting comments i wrote!

Fucking robot lol

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

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Post by caminante »

mentalgear wrote: post #155
tenacious_tuna wrote: post #138

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Ultimately that's only an option if you can sustain the impact to your career (not getting promoted, or getting fired). My org (publicly traded, household name, People who disagree at all levels of seniority have been made to leave the organization. Practically speaking, there's no sexy pitch you can make about doing quality grunt work. I've made that mistake virtually every time I've joined a company: I make perform…

Unfortunately not many companies seem to require engineers to cycle between "feature" and "maintainability" work - hence those looking for the low-hanging fruits and know how to virtue signal seem to build their career on "features" while engineers passionate about correct solutions are left to pay for it while also labelled as "inefficient" by management. It's all a clown show, especially now with vibe-coding - no w…

Culture and accountability problems aren't limited to software.

It's best to sniff out values mismatches ASAP and then decide whether you can tolerate some discomfort to achieve your personal goals.

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

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Post by notatoad »

It’s completely inconsistent for me, and any time I start to think it is amazing, I quickly am proven wrong. It definitely has done some useful things for me, but as it stands any sort of “one shot” or vibecoding where I expect the ai to complete a whole task autonomously is still a long ways off.

Copilot completions are amazingly useful. chatting with the chatbot is a super useful debugging tool. Giving it a function or database query and asking the ai to optimize it works great. But true vibe coding is still, imho, more of a party trick than an actual productivity multiplier. It can do things that look useful, and it can do things that solve immediate self-contained problems. but it can’t create launchable products that serve the needs of multiple users.

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

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Post by ares623 »

From this thread, so far it seems:

Net negative for the ones who care and still need to work closely with others

Net positive for the ones who don't and/or are lone wolves

Maybe the future is lone wolves working on their thing without a care in the world. Accountable to no one but themselves. Bus factor dialed up to 11.

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

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Post by ares623 »

wg0 wrote: post #150

I foresee that the AI blindness at CEO/CFO level and the general hype (from technical and non technical press and media) in our society that software engineering is over etc will result in severe talent shortage in 5-7 years resulting in bidding wars for talent driving salaries 3x upwards or more.

Then we'll be back to 2019/2020 cycle and round and round the merry go round we go
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