I started using Claude and Claude Code a bit in my regular workflow. I’ll skip the suspense and just say that the tool is way more capable than I would ever have expected. The way I can use it to interrogate a large codebase, or generate unit tests, or even “refactor every callsite to use such-and-such pattern” is utterly gobsmacking. [...]
Here’s the main problem I’ve found with generative AI, and with “vibe coding” in general: it completely sucks out the joy of software development for me. [...]
This is how I feel using gen-AI: like a babysitter. It spits out reams of code, I read through it and try to spot the bugs, and then we repeat.
— Nolan Lawson, AI ambivalence
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