| > and I feel like AI quality is typically at the junior level. When it comes to authorship, either I'm prompting it wrong, or the emperor just isn't wearing clothes. How can I become a believer? The emperor is stark naked, but the hype is making people see clothes where there is only an hairy shriveled old man. Sure, I can produce "working" code with Claude, but I have not ever been able to produce good working code. Yes, it can write a okay-ish unit test (almost 100% identical to how I'd have written it), and on a well structured codebase (not built with Claude) and with some preparation, it can kind of produce a feature. However, on more interesting problems it's just slop and you gotta keep trying and prodding until it produces something remotely reasonable. It's addictive to watch it conjure up trash and you constantly trying to steer it in the right direction, but I have never ever ever been able to achieve the code quality level that I am comfortable with. Fast prototype? Sure. Code that can pass my code review? Nah. What is also funny is how non-deterministic the quality of the output is. Sometimes it really does feel like you almost fly off with it, and then bam, garbage. It feels like a roulette, and you gotta keep spinning the wheel to get your dopamine hit/reward. All while wasting money and time, and still it ends up far far worse than you doing it in the first place. Hard pass. |