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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 K0balt »

Tiny team; big technically challenging project across a several compute domains from microcontrollers to S3 buckets. We don’t really do real vibe coding except on web. (Basically static site)

App development: 4x. Lots of interface.

Firmware development c++: 10x+, with a huge increase in code quality. This requires extremely methodical planning, where planning and specification is 80 percent or more of the workflow…. But the results are outstanding. The “trick” is that planning and specification is basically code generation. By the time something is fully specified it’s basically done. The LLM just allows the humans to work in a more productive layer of abstraction and also offloads a whole lot of burdensome calculation and research.

Backend development: 10x at the prototype level it’s basically 100x magic. Everything one-shots if you go with simple python based cli tools with tests. Then you string them together to make the workflow. Once it works, you go over each tool with more testing and optimisation, library deletions where practical, etc. By building each significant function as a separate cli tool it makes testing/fuzzing automatable, simple and reliable.

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

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Post by jcmontx »

iExploder wrote: post #631
jcmontx wrote: post #531

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's really interesting how delusional people here can get when their livelihood depends on it. It's a game changer guys. I've been working professionally for 12 years. Big companies, small companies, freelance, startup CTO nowadays. It's multiplier. It gives me superpowers. If you don't feel the superpowers, you're either missing out or in denial. Embrace agentic coding.

first hit is always free as they say :) lets hope we can get off of it once they hike the price...

let's say they hike up the price: as long as the performance increase surpasses a dev salary for less of the cost, it's still worth it.

Do you prefer paying 2 devs 100k a year? or 1 dev + 20-30k in tokens?

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

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Post by kirubakaran »

jermaustin1 wrote: post #553
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 been tasked with code reviews of Claude chat bot written code (not Claude code that has RAG and can browse the file system). It always lacks any understanding of our problem area, 75% of the time it only works for a specific scenario (the prompted case), and almost 100% of the time, when I comment about this, I'm told to take it over and make it work... and to use Claude. I've kind of decided this is my last job…

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pomato

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

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Post by viktorianer »

notatoad wrote: post #318

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 functio…

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

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Post by snackerblues »

simonw wrote: post #42

The majority of code I've written since November 2025 has been created using agents, as opposed to me typing code into a text editor. More than half of that has been done from my iPhone via Claude Code for web (bad name, great software.) I'm enjoying myself so much . Projects I've been thinking about for years are now a couple of hours of hacking around. I'm readjusting my mental model of what's possible as a single…

>majority of code I've written

>has been created using agents

So you didn't write it

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

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Post by simonw »

snackerblues wrote: post #647
simonw wrote: post #42

The majority of code I've written since November 2025 has been created using agents, as opposed to me typing code into a text editor. More than half of that has been done from my iPhone via Claude Code for web (bad name, great software.) I'm enjoying myself so much . Projects I've been thinking about for years are now a couple of hours of hacking around. I'm readjusting my mental model of what's possible as a single…

>majority of code I've written >has been created using agents So you didn't write it

OK, the majority of code I've produced.
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