it helps with some tasks, not with others. it’s more fun, especially for moving-files-around sort of things. i am not seeing an overall improvement—the bottleneck was always code review, and context switching, and it’s not at all close to helping with those activities.
it uses much less mental effort. this is enticing, but the tradeoff is a lack of flow state. on the other hand, it’s way easier to get started.
i have spent hours prompting and re-prompting, making progress, feeling like i was flying, only to be interrupted by api limits, and then solve the problem in a normal unadorned text editor in minutes. well, claude laid the groundwork. you can’t argue with that.
i thought it was great for writing tests. then i tried it myself. i prefer my tests—they are more self-documenting, and i know they cover important cases.
I use Claude to generate code that I fix by hand. It is still less work than writing it myself. I am mostly using it on hobby projects (example) that probably otherwise wouldn’t get done.
it helps with some tasks, not with others. it’s more fun, especially for moving-files-around sort of things. i am not seeing an overall improvement—the bottleneck was always code review, and context switching, and it’s not at all close to helping with those activities.
it uses much less mental effort. this is enticing, but the tradeoff is a lack of flow state. on the other hand, it’s way easier to get started.
i have spent hours prompting and re-prompting, making progress, feeling like i was flying, only to be interrupted by api limits, and then solve the problem in a normal unadorned text editor in minutes. well, claude laid the groundwork. you can’t argue with that.
i thought it was great for writing tests. then i tried it myself. i prefer my tests—they are more self-documenting, and i know they cover important cases.
it is noticeably improving.
I use Claude to generate code that I fix by hand. It is still less work than writing it myself. I am mostly using it on hobby projects (example) that probably otherwise wouldn’t get done.