Oh sure over time expectations will change and the free lunch will end. Right now I get the benefit of Product just being happy that Engineering finally does something that looks like hitting timelines at all. I’m sure the situation is already different at some other companies. I also have a lot of latitude to work on tech debt because of my high degree of seniority. In some sense my job is to pay down tech debt and otherwise improve the engineering organization to make the company machine better; the feature shipping is incidental.
I don’t use an IDE. My setup is tmux with claude running in one pane, nvim in another, a bash shell in a third, and another bash shell in a fourth where I run our local development environment (it prints logs to console I sometimes need to see).
Oh sure over time expectations will change and the free lunch will end. Right now I get the benefit of Product just being happy that Engineering finally does something that looks like hitting timelines at all. I’m sure the situation is already different at some other companies. I also have a lot of latitude to work on tech debt because of my high degree of seniority. In some sense my job is to pay down tech debt and otherwise improve the engineering organization to make the company machine better; the feature shipping is incidental.
I don’t use an IDE. My setup is
tmuxwithclauderunning in one pane,nvimin another, abashshell in a third, and anotherbashshell in a fourth where I run our local development environment (it prints logs to console I sometimes need to see).