I find Claude Code/Gemini CLI extremely helpful at both saving me lots of time by freeing me from dealing with annoying boilerplate
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Helped: Automating annoying boilerplate and meeting transcripts/summaries.
Got in the way: Designing complex scalable systems and handling difficult code parts.
… I think I am decently good at writing code, and I rather enjoy doing it. I find Claude Code/Gemini CLI extremely helpful at both saving me lots of time by freeing me from dealing with annoying boilerplate, so I can focus more on actual system design (which LLMs fail at terribly, if we are talking about real production apps that need to scale) and more difficult/fun parts of code (which LLMs cannot handle either). That's the real power of it, multiplying the productive output of good SWEs + making the work feel more enjoyable for them, by letting those SWEs …