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0 pointsprocaryote9mo ago0 comments

I've always assumed it is because they can't do the regular coding themselves. If you compare spending months on trying to shake a coding agent into not exploding too much with spending years on learning to code, the effort makes more sense

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iambateman9mo ago· 1 in thread

As a counterpoint, I’ve been coding professionally since 2010.

Every feature I’ve asked Claude Code to write was one I could’ve written myself.

And I’m quite certain it’s faster for my use case.

I won’t be bothered if you choose to ignore agents but the “it’s just useful for the inept” argument is condescending.

brulard9mo ago

I'm in the same boat. I'm 20 years into my SWE career, I can write all the things Claude Code writes for me now but it still makes me faster and deliver better quality features (Like accessibility features, transitions, nice to have bells and whistles) I may not had time or even thought of to do otherwise. And all that with documentation and tests.

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