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by R0m41nJosh 259 days ago
I have been reluctant to use AI as a coding assistant though I have installed claude code and bought a bunch of credits. When I see comments like this I genuinely asking what's the point. Are you sure that going through all of these manipulation instead of directly editing the source code makes you more productive? In which way?

Not trolling, true question.
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lukaslalinsky 259 days ago
Years ago, I was joking with my colleagues that I'm living two weeks ahead, writing the present day code is a chore, thinking about the next problems is more important, so that when the time comes to implement them, I know how. I don't have much time to code these days, but I still have the ability to think. Instead of doing the chore myself, I now delegate it to Claude Code. I still do coding occasionally, usually when it's something hard that I know AI will mess up, but in those instances, I enjoy it.
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yomismoaqui 259 days ago
Time is the answer here, if this dance is 2 hours and implementing it by hand is 8 hours you have won.

Also while Claude Code is crunching floats you can do other things (maybe direct another agent instance)

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