alt Hacker NewsI read this and thought, "are we using the same software?" For me, I have turned the corner where I barely hand-edit anything. Most of the tasks I take on are nearly one-shot successful, simply pointing Claude Code at a ticket URL. I feel like I'm barely scratching the surface of what's possible.
I'm not saying this is perfect or unproblematic. Far from it. But I do think that shops that invest in this way of working are going to vastly outproduce ones that don't.
LLMs are the first technology where everyone literally has a different experience. There are so many degrees of freedom in how you prompt. I actually believe that people's expectations and biases tend to correlate with the outcomes they experience. People who approach it with optimism will be more likely to problem-solve the speed bumps that pop up. And the speed bumps are often things that can mostly be addressed systemically, with tooling and configuration.
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This person is not using Claude Code or Cursor. They refuse to use the tools and have convinced themselves that they are right. Sadly, they won't recognize how wrong they were until they are unemployable.
I'm reading all these articles and having the same thought. These folks aren't using the same tools I'm using.
I am one of the ones who reviews code and pushes projects to the finish line for people who use AI like you. I hate it. The code is slop. You don’t realize because you aren’t looking close enough, but we do and it’s annoying
This only works if you don't look at the code.
If all you're doing is reviewing behaviour and tests then yes almost 100% of the time if you're able to document the problem exact enough codex 5.3 will get it right.
I had codex 5.3 write flawless svelte 5 code only because I had already written valid svelte 5 code around my code.
The minute I started a new project and asked it to use svelte 5 and let it loose it not only started writing a weird mixture of svelte 3/4 + svelte 5 code but also straight up ignored tailwind and started writing it's own CSS.
I asked it multiple times to update the syntax to svelte 5 but it couldn't figure it out. So I gave up and just accepted it, that's what I think is going to happen more frequently. If the code doesn't matter anymore and it's just the process of evaluating inputs and outputs then whatever.
However if I need to implement a specific design I will 100% end up spending more time generating than writing it myself.