Yes
I can use Claude as a goddamned chainsaw to clean up
yojo on Hacker News
fixed the 90 existing errors (properly, no type ignores) in ~2 hours
In the thread “Eight years of wanting, three months of building with AI”, replying to this comment
Helped: Refactoring and cleaning up prototype code with human guidance.
Got in the way: Full-agentic mode failed miserably on type checking errors.
… I’ve had to build the mental model after the fact, while refactoring and ripping out large chunks of nonsense or dead code. But the product wouldn’t exist without that quick and dirty prototype, and I can use Claude as a goddamned chainsaw to clean up. On Friday, I finally added a type checker pre-commit hook and fixed the 90 existing errors (properly, no type ignores) in ~2 hours. …