[toenail]

I thought everybody does this.. having a model create anything that isn't highly focused only leads to technical debt. I have used models to create complex software, but I do architecture and code reviews, and they are very necessary.

[jkingsman]

Absolutely. Effective LLM-driven development means you need to adopt the persona of an intern manager with a big corpus of dev experience. Your job is to enforce effective work-plan design, call out corner cases, proactively resolve ambiguity, demand written specs and call out when they're not followed, understand what is and is not within the agent's ability for a single turn (which is evolving fast!), etc.

[bityard]

The use case that Anthropic pitches to its enterprise customers (my workplace is one) is that you pretty much tell CC what you want to do, then tell it generate a plan, then send it away to execute it. Legitimized vibe-coding, basically.

Of course they do say that you should review/test everything the tool creates, but in most contexts, it's sort of added as an afterthought.

[sznio]

I had to fall back to that to deliver anything recently - but the last two months were really comfy with me just saying "do x" and just going on a walk and coming back to a working project.

Claude is still useful now, but it feels more like a replacement for bashing on a keyboard, rather than a thinking machine now.