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while a 6hour coding task was transformed into a 30 minutes supervision task that generated good, but also correct code, I was a bit afraid for new engineers coming into an old project
orwin on Hacker News
6hour coding task was transformed into a 30 minutes supervision task
In the thread “Writing Code Was Never the Bottleneck”
Helped: Reduced time for frontend tasks and handled workload of larger team.
Got in the way: Concerns about code quality and onboarding new engineers to old projects.
I used Sonnet4 to write my last frontend task, fully, with minimal input. It is so much better than ChatGPT it's unbelievable, but while a 6hour coding task was transformed into a 30 minutes supervision task that generated good, but also correct code, I was a bit afraid for new engineers coming into an old project. How are you supposed to understand code if you don't at least read it and fail a bit? …