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For me the best part about AI is that when I'm feeling lazy, I can tell the AI to do it. Whether it gives me gold or gives me shit, it doesn't matter, because I have now started my work.
I go for a walk and have a coffee. It feels less intellectually dishonest. Best to solve human problems with human solutions.
My biggest problem at the moment is that I am more inclined to talk to Claude and GPT O3 than the other more junior devs on my team. I just get more done. I'm not being facetious here, I really don't like that about the way I've been the past few days. I have to use the new free time I have to work more with them I guess.
I guess the inverse is true too though, junior devs are more inclined to ask AI than their superiors.
Reading all these glowing reviews of Claude Code, I still get the feeling that either everyone’s been paid off or it’s just the die-hard fans of terminal windows and editors like Emacs and Vim. Using the terminal is right up their alley—it’s in their DNA. Every time I read comments saying Claude Code is far better than Cursor, I fire it up, pay for a subscription, and run it on a large, complex TypeScript codebase. F…
Some of it is taste. Personally, I dislike VSCode and its descendants; it feels bloated and like I’m always being advertised to inside the product. I want my editor to disappear from thought, and Sublime does this for me. In that context, CC is amazing.
Reading all these glowing reviews of Claude Code, I still get the feeling that either everyone’s been paid off or it’s just the die-hard fans of terminal windows and editors like Emacs and Vim. Using the terminal is right up their alley—it’s in their DNA. Every time I read comments saying Claude Code is far better than Cursor, I fire it up, pay for a subscription, and run it on a large, complex TypeScript codebase. F…
The key take away here is that save for the deep integration, there is a strategy for working with a best in class agent solution agnostic of tooling.
These learnings will eventually coalesce into "best practices" that people will apply using the editor or IDE of their choice and all these vscode forks will have died off.
Reading all these glowing reviews of Claude Code, I still get the feeling that either everyone’s been paid off or it’s just the die-hard fans of terminal windows and editors like Emacs and Vim. Using the terminal is right up their alley—it’s in their DNA. Every time I read comments saying Claude Code is far better than Cursor, I fire it up, pay for a subscription, and run it on a large, complex TypeScript codebase. F…
There must at this point be lots and lots of actual walkthroughs of people coding using Claude Code, or whatever, and producing real world apps or libraries with them right? Would be neat to have a list because this is what I want to read (or watch), rather than people just continuously telling me all this is amazing but not showing me it’s amazing.
I see two trends recently: 1. low skill people using it for trivial projects. 2. devs writing out the whole app into memory/context down to the names of the files, interfaces, technologies, preparing the testing, compilation framework and then hand-holding the llm to arrive (eventually) at an acceptable solution. Example: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y4_YYrIKLac 80% (99%?) of what you hear about llms are from the…
For me the best part about AI is that when I'm feeling lazy, I can tell the AI to do it. Whether it gives me gold or gives me shit, it doesn't matter, because I have now started my work.
At the end of the day when I'd be thrashing or reverting as much as I write, I can let Jesus take the wheel for a bit to refresh. On small issues it's usually just a glance over the diff, on harder issues it's not challenging to scold it into a good path once something starts coming together, as long as it's a localized edit with a problem I understand. I'll often take over when it's 40-60% there, which is only possi…
I spend probably 70% of my active coding time coding. The rest is using LLMs to keep making progress but give my brain a bit of a break while I recharge, being more supervisory with what's happening, and then taking over if necessary or after the 10-15 minutes it takes for me to start caring again.
There must at this point be lots and lots of actual walkthroughs of people coding using Claude Code, or whatever, and producing real world apps or libraries with them right? Would be neat to have a list because this is what I want to read (or watch), rather than people just continuously telling me all this is amazing but not showing me it’s amazing.
Something really feels off about the whole thing. I use Claude code. I like it, it definitely saves me time reading docs or looking on stack overflow. It’s a phenomenal tool. If we are to believe the hype though, shouldn’t these tools be launching software into the stratosphere? Like the CEO of stripe said AI tools provide a x100 increase in productivity. That was 3-4months ago. Shouldn’t stripe be launching rockets…
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Quality is the value here. Because low quality has a financial risk. And good luck finding anyone these days who can do quality. It's a nice niche.
it sounds like they're buying your confidence primarily
I don't mean to attack this person specifically but it's a frankly pretty bad mindset that is far too prevalent in our profession - the way I do things in the Right Way, I write Good Code, very few other people write Good Code, and because I do things the way they were done 5, 10, 25 years ago means that my way is better than yours.
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Something really feels off about the whole thing. I use Claude code. I like it, it definitely saves me time reading docs or looking on stack overflow. It’s a phenomenal tool. If we are to believe the hype though, shouldn’t these tools be launching software into the stratosphere? Like the CEO of stripe said AI tools provide a x100 increase in productivity. That was 3-4months ago. Shouldn’t stripe be launching rockets…
Whatever it produces still needs to be carefully reviewed and guided. Context switching as a human programmer is very hard so you need to focus on the same specific task, which is harder to not switch to social media or IRL while waiting for it. And you're going to be on the same branch for the same ticket, git doesn't let you do multiple at once (at least I'm not set up to). Not sure where the productivity scaling w…