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When I need to type stuff myself it's mostly just minor flavour changes like Claude adding docstrings in a silly way or naming test functions the wrong way - stuff that I fixed in the prompt for the next time.
And yes, I read and understand the code produced before I tag anyone to review the PR. I'm not a monster =)
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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.
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…
Or I'll walk up to your desk and ask you to explain it.
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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.
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…
Software Engineering has never been more enjoyable.
Python, C++, Docker, ML infra, frontend, robotics software
I have 5 concurrent Claude Code sessions on the same mono repo.
Thank you Anthropic!
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> you need to embed your best practices in your agent and keep and eye on it and refine it over time. Sincere question, how do beginners to the field (interns, juniors) do this when they don't have any best practices yet?
Unless you want to be a solopreneur (terrible idea while you don't know what you're doing and don't have the means to hire someone that does), look at pretty much any other comment in this thread.
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Thats exactly what we as software engineers do. We are constantly automating ourselves out of a job. The trick is that we never actually accomplish that, there will always be things for humans to do. We're discovering so much latent demand for software, Jevon's paradox is in full effect and we're working more than ever with AI (at least I am).
Software engineering is being automated. But building intelligent automation is just starting. AI engineer will be the only job left in the future as long as there are things to automate. It's really all the other jobs that will be automated first before AI engineer.