I want to say a lot of mean things, because an extremely shitty, useless, clearly Claude-generated test suite passed the team PR review this week, tests were useless, so useless the code they were linked to (can't say if the code itself was Ai-written though) had a race condition, that, if triggered and used correctly, could probably rewrite the last entry of any of the firewall we manage (DENY ALL is the one I'm afraid about).

But I can't even shit on Claude AI, because I used it to rewrite part of the tests, and analyse the solution to fix the race condition (and how to test it).

It's a good tool, but in the last few weeks I've been more and more mad about it.

Anyway. I use it to generate a shell. No logic inside, just data models, and functions prototypes. That help with my inability to start something new. Then I use it to write easy functions. Helpers I know I'll need. Then I try to tie everything together. I never hesitate to stop Claude and write specific stuff myself, add a new prototype/function, or delete code. I restart the context often (Opus is less bad about it, but still). Then I ask it about easy refactoring or library that would simplify the code. Ask for multiple solutions each time.