Mixed
I find I have to spend more time trying to get Claude to do what I want than just writing the code I need by hand
all_factz on Hacker News
In the thread “Coders End, from Typers to Thinkers”
Helped: Boilerplate and refactoring tasks.
Got in the way: Small iterative changes toward product-market fit.
… Working this way, LLMs don’t really accelerate my workflow much except for work that’s truly boilerplate and for refactoring. But for the sort of small-ish changes that iterate towards product-market fit, I find I have to spend more time trying to get Claude to do what I want than just writing the code I need by hand.