Yes
I've been able to do things that I would not have the competence for otherwise
eisa01 on Hacker News
In the thread “Using Claude Code to modernize a 25-year-old kernel driver”
Helped: Comparing implementations and searching codebase.
Got in the way: Suggested wrong code change initially.
I've used Claude Code in the past month to do development on CoMaps [1] using the 20 USD/month plan. I've been able to do things that I would not have the competence for otherwise, as I do not have a formal software engineering background and my main expertise is writing python data processing scripts. E.g., yesterday I fixed a bug [2] by having Claude compare the CarPlay and iOS search implementations. …