This seems like a tremendous amount of planning, babysitting, verification, and token cost just to avoid writing code and tests yourself.
This seems like a tremendous amount of planning, babysitting, verification, and token cost just to avoid writing code and tests yourself.
It's assigning yourself the literal worst parts of the job - writing specs, docs, tests and reading someone else's code.
There's a real disconnect. I was talking to a junior developer and they were telling me how Claude is so much smarter than them and they feel inferior.
I couldn't relate. From my perspective as a senior, Claude is dumb as bricks. Though useful nonetheless.
I believe that if you're substantially below Claude's level then you just trust whatever it says. The only variables you control are how much money you spend, how much markdown you can produce, and how you arrange your agents.
But I don't understand how the juniors on HN have so much money to throw at this technology.
So I take that feeling and use it to drive me to become a wizard like them. I've generally found that wizards are very happy to take on apprentices.
I'm not trying to call Claude a wizard (I have similar feelings to you), but more that I don't understand that junior's take. We all feel dumb. All but time. Even the wizards! But it's that feeling that drives you to better yourself and it's what turns you into a wizard.
Honestly so much of what I hear from the "AI does all my coding" crowd just sounds very junior. It's just the same like how a year or two ago they were saying "it does the repetitive stuff". Isn't that what functions, libraries, functors, templates, and other abstractions are for? It feels like we're back to that laughable productivity metric of lines of code or number of commits. I don't know why we love our cargo cults. It seems people are putting so much effort into their cargo cults that they could have invented a real airplane by now.
It's 20 dollars a month to use...
Yes for the basic plan. However there are people who claim to use the API and spend hundreds, or thousands, of dollars a month.
It just seems totally crazy to me, I don't understand how wrestling with this slot machine is even mentally easier
Yes with the reward of: I don't understand this code and didn't learn anything incrementally about the feature I "planned".
Well they probably have the same ability to evaluate the correctness of a feature as a middle manager with a Harvard business degree