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MixedClaude · 1 Sep 2025

Strangely I've found myself more exhausted at the end of the week and I think it's because of the constant supervision necessary to stop Claude from colouring outside the lines when I don't watch it like a hawk

cmrdporcupine on Hacker News

In the thread “Survey: a third of senior developers say over half their code is AI-generated”, replying to this comment

Helped: Easier to start on gruntwork tasks that were previously procrastinated on.

Got in the way: Constant supervision necessary to stop the tool from colouring outside the lines.

Strangely I've found myself more exhausted at the end of the week and I think it's because of the constant supervision necessary to stop Claude from colouring outside the lines when I don't watch it like a hawk. Also I tend to get more done at a time, it makes it easier to get started on "gruntwork" tasks that I would have procrastinated on. …