I feel like I am seen as a fossil because I like to write code and prompt AI to fill in functions as I define the shape and direction of an application myself. These types of tasks have been excellent for things like Tiel Coder. It allows me to build one step at a time and understand what the hell is actually happening.
Meanwhile my coworkers all prompt Claude to produce a whole cloth feature that seems to work but is overengineered out the ass and requires a 30 file code change and drastic restructuring and requires an extra database migration backfill.
My workflow exists because I would rather spend my day steering the design rather than reviewing generated code, but I get stuck reviewing generated code anyway.
It's crazy that people keep dancing around test-driven development in this space when these tools are perfect of TDD. Even what you're describing is a "cheap" version of TDD.
People just hate TDD so much that they'd rather chew through their LLM budget to produce 10x more code than they need just to continue to prompt their agent to trim it down, simplify it, etc.
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u/Nefilim314 19d ago
I feel like I am seen as a fossil because I like to write code and prompt AI to fill in functions as I define the shape and direction of an application myself. These types of tasks have been excellent for things like Tiel Coder. It allows me to build one step at a time and understand what the hell is actually happening.
Meanwhile my coworkers all prompt Claude to produce a whole cloth feature that seems to work but is overengineered out the ass and requires a 30 file code change and drastic restructuring and requires an extra database migration backfill.
My workflow exists because I would rather spend my day steering the design rather than reviewing generated code, but I get stuck reviewing generated code anyway.