alt Hacker News> Today, I use Claude Code for almost all non-trivial programming tasks and have spent $500+ on it just last December.
Truthfully, I don't want to get advice from people who become addicted to AI, sorry. The money investment that person did, already leaves me with tons of questions.
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Best to also avoid people with LSP and debugger addiction.
> Truthfully, I don't want to get advice from people who become addicted to AI, sorry.
If you sleep on this, these people are going to take your job.
I've been writing serious systems code for 15 years. Systems that handled billions of dollars of transaction volume a day and whose hourly outages cost billions of dollars. These are systems you have to design carefully. Active-active, beyond five nines reliable.
I'm telling you AI is extremely beneficial even in this segment of the market. The value prop is undeniable.
I'm easily getting twice my workload done with AI, and I'm not even leveraging the full extent of the tools. I've only just started to do more than fancy tab-autocomplete.
This is going to be a huge shift in our industry, and I would brace for impact.
Sensible. This article is another AI hype angle. The author works on an AI agent platform for marketing, of course he wants to hype it.