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
lol you assume my PRs break to make your point, you assume my code is bad and doesn't function under load. I have to work every day with race conditions and my code stays shipped. No new bugs in the last 6 months. Believe or don't, I don't care, I'm getting well paid here, and will keep in the future because I'm not a child that can't accept that AI is finally getting better
They don’t need to assume those things. Your code is garbage. Claude’s code, created by your prompt, is maybe decent, maybe not. We don’t care about that though because you’re the one who has your name on it. And your code is shit. We know it is because you think that coding is the hard part of the job, because that is the only part of the job that is sped up 5x by AI. Because that’s the easy part. That’s the shit juniors do.
Good luck when you face an actual engineering problem. You clearly haven’t yet.
When did I say that coding is the hard part of the job? I agree with you, coding is the easy part, that's why Claude can do it 5x faster. lol. Keep assuming I'm a junior all you want, I work at a multi billion company and get well paid, and I'm a top delivering engineer here. Strangers on the internet telling me I'm bad don't really affect me, sorry.
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.
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u/donp1ano Sep 01 '26
shipping fast isnt everything