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Fear of Missing Code

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Re: Fear of Missing Code

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Post by linesofcode »

Today Claude Code built several features and fixed a laundry list of bugs while I was at the movie theatre. When I came home I did about 15 minutes of reviewing its work and doing manual testing, found some issues, made a list and fired it off to Claude again before going to bed.

I’m not mentally taxed at all, in fact I’m excited to be building something 24/7 without sitting at my keyboard night and day typing out code and ruining my physical health.

When I reflect on the old days of coding (pre 2024) I have a hard time thinking about how many days of my life I spent manually coding away at the keyboard - it makes me queasy and uncomfortable realizing the amount of time I lost.

Tomorrow morning I’m going to go to the gym and have Claude bang out several more features while I’m exercising - and I’m stoked to review the results and keep the ball rolling.

Re: Fear of Missing Code

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Post by odest »

The anxiety doesn't come from "missing out on code", it comes from the dread of waking up to a mountain of generated code that you now have to untangle and verify. Treating the AI strictly as a tool that gets turned off when I step away from the keyboard is the only way I've kept my sanity.

Re: Fear of Missing Code

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Post by tom_techtropic »

odest wrote: post #14

The anxiety doesn't come from "missing out on code", it comes from the dread of waking up to a mountain of generated code that you now have to untangle and verify. Treating the AI strictly as a tool that gets turned off when I step away from the keyboard is the only way I've kept my sanity.

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Re: Fear of Missing Code

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Post by sminchev »

I usually try to minimize the risk as much as possible, and let it run, without being supervised. And always, always validate the result the next day. As we can't trust fellow developers, and we need code review sessions, QA sessions, automation testing session, same is here as well. Don't fully trust the AI. Nothing is perfect

We had the ability to write code while eating dinner before. Now it just takes less effort. Thinking for a good prompt is easier than thinking for a good nested loop. And the whole vibe, and enthusiasm are bigger, pushing people to try something new.

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