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6 weeks of Claude Code
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#502Damn, I thought the functional programming era of HN was insufferable, I had no idea how bad it was going to get.
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Yes, can confirm that as a senior developer who has needed to spend huge amounts of time reviewing junior code from off-shore contractors with very detailed and explicit instructions, dabbling in agentic LLM coding tools like Claude Code has felt like like a gift from heaven. I also have concerns about said junior developers wielding such tools, because yes, without being able to supply the right kind of context and…
Ah mate I can’t relate more to the offshore component. I had a very sad experience where I recently had to let go of an offshore team due to them providing devs that essentially ‘junior with copilot’ but labelled as a ‘senior’. Time and time again I would find telltale signs of dumping LLM output into PRs n then claiming it as their own. Not a problem, but the code didn’t do what the detailed ticket asked and introdu…
Why does it go against your morality? Sounds like a totally rational business decision, only affecting a sub-par partner
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#504Damn, I thought the functional programming era of HN was insufferable, I had no idea how bad it was going to get.
Genuinely - what's the problem with this? It seems to be someone documenting a big increase in their productivity in a way that might be actually useful to others.
They don't write like the kind of person you can dismiss out of hand and there's no obvious red flags.
Other than "I don't like AI" - what is so insufferable here?
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Why abhor specifically?
Not the GP but we're descending into a world where we just recycle the same "content" over and over. Nothing will be special, there'll be nothing to be proud of. Just constant dopamine hits administered by our overlords. Read Brave New World if you haven't.
> Read Brave New World if you haven't.
I have and I don't see the connection with AI-assisted coding.
If your comment was about "generative AI in general" then I think this is the problem with trying to discuss AI on the internet at the moment. It quickly turns into "defend all aspects of AI or else you've lost". I can't predict all aspects of AI. I don't like all aspects of AI and I can't weigh up the pros and cons of a vast number of distinct topics all at once. (and neither, I suspect, can anyone else)
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What's happening is that we are being bombarded by marketing on all fronts. These gushing statements are no different from the testimonials and advertorials from the days of yore.
It’s absolute lunacy to think everyone lauding Claude code is paid marketing/shilling. What’s actually happening is there’s a divide being created between engineers that know how to use it, and engineers that don’t or want to convince themselves that it’s useless or whatever. Group 2 will not fare well in the coming months.
There are also those who code in languages that are not the most popular, on operating systems that are not the most popular, or frameworks that are not the most popular.
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> Curious how you outline the spec, concretely. A sister markdown document? How detailed is it? etc. Yes. I write the outline in markdown. And then get AI to flesh it out. The I generate a project structure, with stubbed API signatures. Then I keep refining until I've achieved a good level of detail - including full API signatures and database schemas. > Ironically i've been struggling with this. For best results i'v…
What kind or projects are more suitable for this approach? Because my workflow, sans LLM agents, have been to rely on frameworks to provide a base abstraction for me to build upon. The hardest is to nail down the business domain, done over rounds of discussions with stakeholders. Coding is pretty breezy in comparison.
That's why you see such a difference in time saved using LLMs for programming across the population. If you have all the domain knowledge and the problem is generic enough it's a 100x multiplier. Otherwise your experience can easily range from 0.1x to 10x.
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I had success with creating a VERY detailed plan.md file - down to how all systems connect together, letting claude-loop[1] run while I sleep and coming back in the morning manually patching it up. [1]: https://github.com/DeprecatedLuke/claude-loop
You are the 5% they were talking about lol.
Surprisingly - only averaging $70 a day.
Re: 6 weeks of Claude Code
#509Damn, I thought the functional programming era of HN was insufferable, I had no idea how bad it was going to get.
Genuinely - what's the problem with this? It seems to be someone documenting a big increase in their productivity in a way that might be actually useful to others. They don't write like the kind of person you can dismiss out of hand and there's no obvious red flags. Other than "I don't like AI" - what is so insufferable here?
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If you are a Senior Developer, who is comfortable giving a Junior tips, and then guiding them to fixing them (or just stepping in for a brief moment and writing where they missed something) this is for you. I'm hearing from Senior devs all over thought, that Junior developers are just garbage at it. They product slow, insecure, or just outright awful code with it, and then they PR the code they don't even understand.…
Yes, this! A couple of week ago, I had a little down time and thought about a new algorithm I wanted to implement. In my head it seemed simple enough that 1) I thought the solution was already known, and 2) it would be fairly easy to write. So I asked Claude to "write me a python function that does Foo". I spent a whole morning going back and forth getting crap and nothing at all like what I wanted. I don't know what…
“ we will end up with hoards of juniors who don't understand anything and the stuff they produce”
I’ve spent a lot of my career cleaning up this kind of nonsense so the future looks bright