Mixed
Sometimes its fantastic, finding issues instantly that'd take a lot of trawling or insider knowledge otherwise
nickd2001 on Hacker News
In the thread “Ask HN: How is AI-assisted coding going for you professionally?”
Helped: Finding issues instantly that would take trawling or insider knowledge.
Got in the way: Obsessed with irrelevant things; suggestions don't work; lacks team context.
Am using Claude to attempt to do refactoring and find bugs. Sometimes its fantastic, finding issues instantly that'd take a lot of trawling or insider knowledge otherwise. Other times it gets obsessed about irrelevant things, makes suggestions that for some other obscure but non obvious reason don't work in practice. …