alt Hacker NewsClaude Code is doing rounds right now. I picked up a personal project from a year ago (iOS app, not really a mobile eng here), and decided to go the rewrite with some new features to practice some LLM-skills. Honestly, the speed of development is so much faster compared to last year with Claude Code. It definitely helps that I generally know what needs to be done, so I can specify technicalities. And having a good E2E set up works as well.
But yeah, if Gemini with more context comes with a similar product, it could compete and win the developers.
+1 for Claude Code. I'm in the exact same boat - several personal projects with something of a backlog in each, that would've taken me maybe a weekend each to get done manually. Sat down with Claude Code a few days ago and hammered all of it out in an afternoon, it's very impressive. Not perfect, and as you say, having a good idea of what we're doing and how helps a great deal vs. figuring everything out from scratch. And having good tests and/or a stable test environment and processes running.