I reckon that if instead of this I had just done the work myself I would have had a much smaller, more reliable project
AdeptusAquinas on Hacker News
In the thread “Ask HN: How is AI-assisted coding going for you professionally?”
Helped: Generating small changes and building a CLI tool via agentic back-and-forth.
Got in the way: Full tool had more errors and lacked reliability compared to manual coding.
… Because the CLI tool was calling an API, I could ask Claude to run the requests it was generating and adjust based on the result - errors, bad requests etc, and it would fairly rapidly fix and coalesce on a working solution. After I was done though, I reckon that if instead of this I had just done the work myself I would have had a much smaller, more reliable project. Less error handling, no unit tests, no documentation sure, but it would have worked and worked better - I wouldn't need to iterate off the API responses because I would have started with a better contract-based approach. …