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by boxed 143 days ago
Ok, let's take it this way:

What evidence could convince you there is some benefit?

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Well, what would those benefits be? I genuinely don't see what it's useful for.

From what I've seen, people spend an inordinate amount of time typing in "prompts", and the chatbot goes off and pretends to generate some code, and then the people have to work out what's wrong with it and type in another prompt.

So it looks like the humans get to do all the slow, time-consuming drudge work of typing stuff in and debugging the result, but the chatbot does the interesting part.

Why would I voluntarily just do the drudge work?

Yea ok, I see. That's not how I use Claude Code for sure. I can write or even speak fairly small sentences and it goes and does pretty big changes, and for some things I know it can do it correctly.

I think the interesting and useful part of the job is coming up with ideas to try and the design and getting the result. Typing code isn't really the fun part.