Mixed
it works, but then when you need to change something it all crumbles like a badly engineered sandcastle
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5 minutes that would take me 2 hours to build
In the thread “What Claude Code's Source Revealed About AI Engineering Culture”, replying to this comment
Helped: Specifying everything before building and changing specs with code
Got in the way: Code crumbles like a sandcastle when changes are needed
That’s most of my work(embedded sensor and control networks) and I’m sure that informs my methodology. I honestly don’t know much about how AI can inform standards SAAS but I have seen what happens when you just turn it loose, and in my experience it hasn’t been pretty; it works, but then when you need to change something it all crumbles like a badly engineered sandcastle. OTOH for single purpose pipelines and simple tools. …