As crazy as this seems, it's unlocking another variation of software engineering I didn't think was accessible. Previously, super entrenched and wicked expensive systems that might have taken years of engineering effort, appear to be ripe for disruption suddenly. The era of software systems with deeply engineered connectivity seem to be on the outs...
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?
#92I am no longer in software as a day job so i am not sure of my input applys. I traded that world for opening a small brewery back in 2013. So I am a bit outdated on many modern trends but I still enjoy programming. In the last fee months using both gemeni and now movong over to claude, I have created at least 5 (and growing) small apps that have radically transformed what i am able to do at the business. I totally improved automation of my bookkeeping (~16hrs a month categorizing everything down to 3ish), created an immense amount of better reports on production, sales and predictions from a system i had already been slowly writing all these years, I created a run club rewards tracking app instead of relying on our paper method, improved upon a previously written full tv menu display system that syncs with our website and on premis tvs and now i am working on a full productive maintenance trigger system and a personal phone app to trigger each of these more easily. Its been a game changer for me. I have so many more ideas planned and each one frees up more of my waste time to create more.
Re: Ask HN: How is AI-assisted coding going for you professionally?
#93I am getting disproportionately good results with the models by following a process: spec -> plan -> critique -> improve plan -> implement plan.
Can you give a little more detail how you execute these steps? Is there a specific tool you use, or is it simply different kinds of prompts?
I wrote it down here: https://x.com/BraaiEngineer/status/2016887552163119225
However, I have since condensed this into 2 prompts:
1. Write plan in Plan Mode
2. (Exit Plan Mode) Critique -> Improve loop -> Implement.
Re: Ask HN: How is AI-assisted coding going for you professionally?
#94my team is anti-AI. my code review requests are ignored, or are treated more strictly than others. it feels coordinated - i will have to push back the launch date of my project as a result. another teammate added a length check to an input field, and his request was merged near instantly, even though it had zero unit testing. this team is incredibly cooked in the long term, i just need to ensure that i survive the sh…
> another teammate added a length check to an input field, and his request was merged near instantly, even though it had zero unit testing That sounds extremely reasonable though?
Code that does not take a pre-existent unit test from failing to passing is by definition broken.
Re: Ask HN: How is AI-assisted coding going for you professionally?
#95I wrote a blog post over the New Year's of my experience at a company where AI coding was widely used and developer skill wasn't particularly high.
https://burakku.com/blog/tired-of-ai-coders/
I think the addendum to that is that I've since left.
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#97It 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.
Came here to say this. The right solution to this is still the same as it always was - teach the juniors what good code looks like, and how to write it. Over time, they will learn to clean up the LLM’s messes on their own, improving both jobs.
Re: Ask HN: How is AI-assisted coding going for you professionally?
#98I work at a unicorn in EU. Claude Code has been rolled out to all of engineering with strict cost control policies, even with these in place we burn through tens of thousands of euro per months that I think could translate in 15/20 hires easily. Are we more productive than adding people to the headcount? That's a good question that I cannot answer. Some senior people that were in the AI pilot, have been using this fo…
Why did your company get claude code with token billing instead of getting everyone max plans ?
Not that guy, but here token billing was chosen to get the Enterprise monitoring shit. I think the C-suite is expected to report productivity increases and needs all of the data that Anthropic can scrape to justify how much money is being on fire right now.
Re: Ask HN: How is AI-assisted coding going for you professionally?
#99I've only recently begun using copilot auto-complete in Visual Studio using Claude (doing C# development/maintenance of three SaaS products). I've been a coder since 1999. The suggestions are correct about 40% of the time, so I'm actually surprised when they're right, rather than becoming reliant on them. It saves me maybe 10 minutes a day.
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.
Re: Ask HN: How is AI-assisted coding going for you professionally?
#100AI has helped me break through procrastination by taking care of tedious tasks that beforehand had a low ROI (boilerplate, CI/CD configs, test coverage, shell scripting/automation).
- create unit tests and benchmark tests that required lots of boiler plate , fixtures
- add CI / CD to a few projects that I didn't have motivation to
- freshen up old projects to modern standards (testing, CI / CD, update deps, migrations/deprecations)
- add monitoring / alerting to 2 projects that I had been neglecting. One was a custom DNS config uptime monitor.
- automated backup tools along with scripts for verifying recovery procedure.
- moderate migrations for deprecated APIs and refactors within cli and REST API services
- auditing GCP project resources for billing and security breaches
- frontend, backend and offline tiers for cloud storage management app