claude will mostly one-shot these things with proper prompt and constraints
iExploder on Hacker News
In the thread “Ask HN: How is AI-assisted coding going for you professionally?”
Helped: Constraining search space and defining specs for repetitive tasks.
Got in the way: Large PRs with excessive noise and complexity.
… my productivity definitely improved.. especially with tasks that I would consider boring or tedious to hand code due to repetition (I have coded this at company X and now Im doing N-th variant of it again at company Y from scratch...) claude will mostly one-shot these things with proper prompt and constraints. I think software engineering has changed, the new paradigm is creating proper fixtures for agents to run in (like environment, code execution and bench/unit test access) and defining specs, inputs, outputs and constraints of the problem, then let Claude iterate on it and sip on coffee. …