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I’m a retired software dev, but anactive developer I know talks about how much time he saves daily by using Claude for grunt work.
I’ve tried (and still try) to find good workflows using AI, but I don’t think I’ve found anything that saves time. To get the same quality using AI, I have to go back and forth with it a lot, and review all the bloated bullshit it generates. If you don’t care about quality or the thing even working correctly (e.g. prototypes/POCs), it’s really fast.
Or if you do care about quality and learn how to use it right.
You aren’t prompting right, bruh. You need to be very good at writing markdown to leverage Ayy-Eye properly.
You aren’t using the latest and the greatest model, bruh. Have you tried Claude Fairy Tale 6.9.420?
Most of the younger generation devs at my company are using ai coding - mostly for said gruntwork (like writing small functions, api methods, writing what data they want to see instead of complex sql requests), but some are more enthusiastic and use heavier agentic setups. The best validation is that we still have old-school human pull request reviews (enforced by a scary Chief R&D) and if your colleague would see something unreadable or weird, your stuff wouldn’t pass.
I’m a Product Manager and I have several pet products now - all pretty viable (depending on the time I invested in each of course). A stocks website, a money splitting android app (now passing google play review), a weather app. All working, and I have really low coding skills myself
AI corporate slop is when you mass generate a bunch of stuff, don’t read it, and then export the mental burden to a different coworker. You make them looks less productive and you look extremely productive, when really you’re stealing the productivity of colleagues.
You just reminded me of that.
Again, in a corporate setting I see that the “generated stuff” is being read before being approved. And in my private setting I’m working on my projects for myself, I’m not “stealing the productivity”, I obtained productivity. All my life I was coming up with ideas, planning, and managing, but having something on my own wasn’t possible - I can’t hire a dev team. Now I am my team, I’m empowered.
You could’ve literally learned programming…
what actual product do any of those sites produce
sounds like toys
“Sounds”? You are an expert in measuring value by vague comments?
Okay:
If it’s not real life value, then I don’t know
Tell him this: If you’re writing that much boilerplate (grunt work), you’re probably doing something wrong. If AI can write your normal work, you really should be learning, so not using AI at all.
Actually I’m not going to tell a dev with decades of experience that an internet rando thinks he’s doing his job wrong lol.
Would you at least tell him to call his mother every once in a while?
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K. It’s astounding to me that after decades in the business, he’s still writing code that can be written by basically an intern.
When I try to get AI to write my code, it stumbles all over itself just failing to understand the simplest of my libraries. (Literally it made multiple mistakes using the fucking tokenizer library I wrote that is so simple, an intern would have no problem with it.)
Yeah, so if you are a senior dev, the easy work just disappears? Like if you are an experienced carpenter, you will never have to drive nails again, because that’s too easy!
Even if it does write code that works, it usually (about 50% of the time in my experience) has bugs, and sometimes those bugs can be really difficult to spot. For me, it has never saved me any time. I’m either fixing something it doesn’t know how to do correctly, or going over its code with a fine tooth comb because when it says, “this is production ready code, with no bugs,” it’s usually wrong. That takes a lot of time. It’s easier for me to just write the code correctly myself.
Admittedly, I haven’t used that new model that Anthropic revoked access to the public to recently. Maybe that one is good enough for government work.
Fable was “just ask and get it done” quality level, but really I don’t get THAT much bugs - about the same amount that I see irl developers do: get a new feature, find 5 problems, get them fixed, find one more, done. As a recommendation - try to alleviate the biggest problems that ai models have:
When I first tried it I felt lost, but after watching a couple videos about writing good prompts I had no trouble getting it to produce perfectly good code that did what I wanted. Your mileage may vary.