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MixedClaude Code · 14 Aug 2025

My whole team has really bought into the "claude-code" way of doing side tasks that have been on the backlog for years

jarjoura on Hacker News

In the thread “Why LLMs can't really build software”, replying to this comment

Helped: Side tasks, simple refactors, and explaining legacy code.

Got in the way: Creating new unseen solutions and matching existing code style.

… So a that point, you're just acting as a mentor instead of using your capacity to just implement the solution yourself. My whole team has really bought into the "claude-code" way of doing side tasks that have been on the backlog for years, think like simple refactors, or secondary analytic systems. Basically any well-trodden path that is mostly constrained by time that none of us are given, are perfect for these agents right now. …