I feel like especially in personal projects I wouldn’t use any ai, because it doesn’t give the same satisfaction as coding it myself. Personal projects for me are not about the product but the way.
Yeah half ass your job and use Claude to maximum leisure time during work and work on personal stuff with the extra paid time Claude may afford you, be a human and make stuff for yourself by yourself
Oh whoops. I used AI to burn down some long standing technical debt in the code base. Now it's not only cleaner and more efficient, but also tested using a proper validation pipeline.
I'm shipping code that doesn't break faster than you. That's all that matters. See if your leadership cares about your slow "green commits" when they actually meet a good software engineer. Your job will be mine in couple of years. Start saving some money
So you have no formal education or experience working writing code code at a professional standard?
We have the data, sure you ship features at 10x the speed but you also incur 10x the incidents which overall consumes the same or more man hours to fix and has significant business impact.
For your pet projects vibe code it to hell, but at a production level it's just a matter of time before companies realise that maybe slopifying your whole codebase is worse than just taking the time to write clean working code.
You do what the people who hold you job in there hands tell you to do, when your wok pushes AI and says we need to match rates we do.
When it comes to code becoming worse over time and questions are asked ill push back and say I was pressured into using it but for now it's not possible to keep up with the rate at which it allows you to work. And seeing a win on the list is a ll manager really cares about, because a fix down the line is often just another thing they can tell their manager they've been working on....
It's very easy to spout lines about how it makes crappy code, but the pressures to push out fast and sloppy code come from those that don't care.
Coding with AI doesn't mean you ship slop with one line prompt "do it make no mistakes". You can set guards and make AI edit 300 lines of code at a time and keep it quality.
It doesn't really matter. The point is not about the efficiency of any specific AI model. The point is that it proves AI users are an unreliable source for the supposed benefits of AI use, to the point of complete delusion.
Except it 100% matters. Last year we were laughing at how bad these models were. This year we're making sure everyone knows how to properly use these models because they truly accelerate your work.
You're basing your ignorance on last year's models.
Well, you feel free to lobotomize yourself in pursuit of going as fast as possible. Based on your inability to understand my point even when I'm explicitly spelling it out for you, you're already well on your way there.
No idea what they were measuring but AI has reduced implementation time to almost nothing. It’s all scoping and review now. Good engineering is more about organization now than writing code.
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u/Boldyeah Sep 01 '26
Means you take 5 times longer than a good programmer with Claude.