It works really well (using Claude Code and Opus 4.6 primarily)
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90% there before opening a PR
In the thread “Ask HN: How is AI-assisted coding going for you professionally?”
Helped: Plan mode first, comprehensive skills, and careful planning for large changes.
Got in the way: Agent loses way when spitballing ideas without grounding (rare).
At $WORK, my team is relatively small (< 10 people) and a few people really invested in getting the codebase (a large Elixir application with > 3000 modules) in shape for AI-assisted development with a very comprehensive set of skills, and some additional tooling. It works really well (using Claude Code and Opus 4.6 primarily). Incremental changes tend to be well done and mostly one-shotted provided I use plan mode first, and larger changes are achievable by careful planning with split phases. …