It has accomplished a small amount of meaningful work, exactly enough that I think I'm neutral instead of in the negative in terms of work:time if I have just done it all myself
taormina on Hacker News
About half the time I review it and have to heavily clean it up to make it usable
In the thread “AGI is an engineering problem, not a model training problem”, replying to this comment
Helped: Small amount of meaningful work achieved.
Got in the way: Ignores context files and produces useless output requiring reverts.
… Yes, I've done meaningful prompting work, and I've set up all the CLAUDE.md files, and then it proceeds to completely ignores everything I said, all of the context I gave, and just craps out something completely useless. It has accomplished a small amount of meaningful work, exactly enough that I think I'm neutral instead of in the negative in terms of work:time if I have just done it all myself. I get to tell myself that it's worth it because at least I'm "keeping up with the industry" but I honestly just don't get the hype train one bit. …