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Re: Claude Code does our releases now

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Post by johnisgood »

miyuru wrote: post #18
apwell23 wrote: post #6

> So please: > 1. Check if there exists a release PR already. When you check, do not grep, just list ALL PRs. Why would you make AI do this when you can just do it with an api call or git. Does the author not know that there is a chance that it won't actuall list ALL PRs just because he put that in all caps? we have lost our collective minds that this person is proudly publishing this stupidity to the world. i hate t…

>can we pls ban these coders from the industry This is the main problem with AI, we can no longer distinguish bad coders/managers because they use AI heavily and which can say knowledgeable things at times while having no idea on what they are doing. I now say things that will not make sense to a good coders (like saying the steps out of order), to find out such people.

Eventually you will find the imposters (I have impostor syndrome, gives it a whole new spin), because AI does not replace your knowledge of the underlying concepts.

It just takes time at times.

Re: Claude Code does our releases now

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Post by mkl95 »

politelemon wrote: post #14
mkl95 wrote: post #7

> less manual work is always better. Why do your releases involve non negligible manual work? > We release 1-3 times per week. If I were a customer, I would be concerned by this statement. Having an amateurish deployment strategy is one thing, but your release cadence implies low confidence and quality issues.

The cadence of releases is not related to quality. There will always be variances depending on the codebase involved and organisational constraints and product velocities. I could easily say that more frequent or less frequent releases are also a cause for concern.

We are talking about a Gen AI startup that has a handful of employees here. They have little excuse not to implement CI/CD, unless they lack confidence in their product's quality.

Re: Claude Code does our releases now

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Post by hiyer »

This is cool and all, but I don't see why this can't be accomplished (and more deterministically) with a bunch of bash/python scripts. I've seen that done and work well in several firms for decades.

Re: Claude Code does our releases now

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Post by M4v3R »

danw1979 wrote: post #17

This is a fine example of a process you really want to be deterministic being automated using something that is definitely not.

I did something similar in my hobby project - the agent was promoted, among the other things, to copy a signature from a build artifact into a json file. It worked fine until it didn’t - one day Claude 4 Sonnet randomly flipped one letter in the signature to something else. It wasn’t the end of the world, I catched the error because I always manually test if the release worked, but it shows that AI tools should not be used as execution engines for CI/CD workflows. It’s slow, inefficient and error prone. Just ask the AI to help you write a proper workflow with code.

Re: Claude Code does our releases now

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Post by shermantanktop »

danw1979 wrote: post #17

This is a fine example of a process you really want to be deterministic being automated using something that is definitely not.

What is the deterministic alternative you suggest?

I’m not endorsing this release practice in particular, it scares me. But I have been involved in a lot of automation projects where perfection was the initial goal, and then abandoned because it was obvious that non-automated work was so imperfect. Human error is a fact of life.

Re: Claude Code does our releases now

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Post by otabdeveloper4 »

miyuru wrote: post #18
apwell23 wrote: post #6

> So please: > 1. Check if there exists a release PR already. When you check, do not grep, just list ALL PRs. Why would you make AI do this when you can just do it with an api call or git. Does the author not know that there is a chance that it won't actuall list ALL PRs just because he put that in all caps? we have lost our collective minds that this person is proudly publishing this stupidity to the world. i hate t…

>can we pls ban these coders from the industry This is the main problem with AI, we can no longer distinguish bad coders/managers because they use AI heavily and which can say knowledgeable things at times while having no idea on what they are doing. I now say things that will not make sense to a good coders (like saying the steps out of order), to find out such people.

> ...and which can say knowledgeable things at times while having no idea on what they are doing

This has been a thing forever, before AI. Lots of "programmers" at BigCorp have hacked the system and they know how to say the right words relevant to BigCorp's tech stack. Knowing how to actually program is entirely optional. (You can just copy-paste boilerplate from BigCorp's monorepo, writing boilerplate will be your day job anyways.)

Re: Claude Code does our releases now

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Post by sriku »

I just spent a day resurrecting an old iOS music app of mine that got kicked out of the app store because I didn't make time to keep up with changes and devices, and some music students kept asking "when is it going to get back on the app store?".

I used Claude Code in "do whatever you need to to modernize this code" mode for a bit and then went about correcting the things it got wrong. Many changes made were mechanical and useful and a few incorrect. It botched up some core code big time with changes that didn't make any sense, and I had to revert and micromanage changes to that. In all, it was a win for a day's work during the weekend.

Approx $30 well spent, but I give my thanks to the OSS community whose code made Claude Code possible and wish I could've split that with them.

The fact that software systems are architected with tons of mini languages means LLMs can be of use to select from the space of possibilities without me having to learn incidental details I don't want to spend time or my neurons on.

Re: Claude Code does our releases now

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Post by geuis »

We have a very small team and release at will. Some days multiple times, sometimes days between.

We don't use AI, just have a well tested codebase and basic bash script automation mixed in with GitHub actions.

Not bashing AI tools in particular, but just learning some basic decades old tooling and processes gets you pretty much all of the way there.

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