Using Claude like that takes about half an hour out of your day and you get a good benefit
ChrisRackauckas on Hacker News
6 PRs in instead of 3
In the thread “A guide to Gen AI / LLM vibecoding for expert programmers”, replying to this comment
Helped: Solving easy problems to get 90% of PRs done.
Got in the way: Generating novel algorithms or proving numerical stability.
… That can get you 6 PRs in instead of 3, where you did the hard 3 and just looked at the transcripts for another 15, and tossed all but the 3 that looked good. Using Claude like that takes about half an hour out of your day and you get a good benefit, and that is what I am pointing to as a very useful approach. I personally don't think any amount of MCP servers will make "Claude, find me a novel algorithmic improvement in this space and code it up" work, but hey if that works for you that's great. …