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by ramesh31
310 days ago
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>Has anyone with decent (5+ years) experience built a non-trivial new feature in a production codebase quicker by letting AI write it? Yes. Claude Code has turned quarter long initiatives into a few afternoons of prompting for me, in the context of multiple different massive legacy enterprise codebases. It all comes down to just reaching that "jesus take the wheel" level of trust in it. You have to be ok with letting it go off and potentially waste hundreds of dollars in tokens giving you nonsense, which it will some times. But when it doesn't it's like magic, and makes the times that it does worth the cost. Obviously you'll still review every line before merging, but that takes an order of magnitude less time than wrestling with it in the first place. It has fundamentally changed what myself and our team is able to accomplish. |
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Just speculating here, but I wouldn't be surprised if the truth of both parts of this sentence vary quite a bit amongst users of AI coding tools and their various applications; and, if so, if that explains a lot of the discrepancy amongst reports of success/enthusiasm levels.