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0 pointsleptons1mo ago0 comments

So because I can match or beat Claude at the tasks I give it, you think I'm somehow using it wrong?

Maybe you don't recognize someone with real skill and 30+ years of experience? I don't need Claude, but I'm using it. Sometimes it succeeds at simple tasks, but it's out of its depth for anything complex, and after enough iterations on one task, entropy takes hold.

Maybe your coding career was a dead end job, but mine is doing just fine. I'm also not sure you or your colleagues correctly count the time you spend putting into instructing AI vs what you get out that is actually usable. And if you were slow before AI, then I have to ask why you think learning to be a slop-fixer is somehow better than learning how to be a better software engineer.

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reenorap1mo ago

I also have 30+ years of experience.

If you are "match or beat Claude at the tasks" you give it, you're using it wrong. You sound like some of my coworkers that are eschewing AI or are minimizing it. The ones such as yourself who find AI annoying or not useful are the ones who are going to go extinct during the next few years.

The new era of programmers aren't going to be the most "skilled" ones but the most mentally agile and flexible ones because things are going to be changing so quickly. No one knows where our field is going to end up but we know the path is going to be fast paced and will keep changing and only those with mental flexibility and agility will be able to keep up.

leptonsOP1mo ago

>If you are "match or beat Claude at the tasks" you give it, you're using it wrong.

Are you purposely mischaracterizing what I said to perpetuate a pointless internet argument? Because it should sounds like that.

I don't sit there all day racing Claude. I do it sometimes just because I'm tired waiting for Claude to do simple shit. It's a benchmark, not a workflow.

>You sound like some of my coworkers that are eschewing AI or are minimizing it. The ones such as yourself who find AI annoying or not useful are the ones who are going to go extinct during the next few years.

You think you know me, but you don't. You're making wild assumptions about me to try to attack me.

This pointless internet interaction is over.

reenorap1mo ago

If your prompt to Claude isn't "This program doesn't seem to work properly. The log files indicate that writing to the database keeps occurring over and over again. What is the cause?" and if it doesn't actual fix the problem without anything more than the above prompt, then you're not using it properly.

leptonsOP1mo ago

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reenorap1mo ago

I also have 30+ years of experience.

leptonsOP1mo ago

>If you are "match or beat Claude at the tasks" you give it, you're using it wrong.

Are you purposely mischaracterizing what I said to perpetuate a pointless internet argument? Because it should sounds like that.

I don't sit there all day racing Claude. I do it sometimes just because I'm tired waiting for Claude to do simple shit. It's a benchmark, not a workflow.

You think you know me, but you don't. You're making wild assumptions about me to try to attack me.

This pointless internet interaction is over.

reenorap1mo ago

leptonsOP1mo ago

This pointless internet interaction is over.

j / k navigate · click thread line to collapse