I care about how something is done and doing it in the most simple and idiomatic manner I can.

However, when I am learning a new space (teaching myself SwiftUI, coming from a Java/infra background), Claude lets me preserve my forward momentum, which helps with motivation.

I tend to go back and rewrite a lot of the first iterations, but it has proved super useful unblocking me when I don’t yet understand how to tackle something I want to do in this new space, or sparking some ideas.

"Make it work, make it pretty, make it fast."

That's the motto I do my software by.

With LLM tools like Claude I can get the first step done quicker than ever. Then I can start dogfooding whatever I build and slowly make it prettier.

Sometimes I don't even bother with that, it works well enough so that I don't want to bother spend the time time refactoring it.

> I care about how something is done and doing it in the most simple and idiomatic manner I can.

Same, and I have been coding ever since I was a kid (I am only in my early 30s).

That said, I usually know the language enough to be able to tell if it is idiomatic or not. That said, I still prompt the LLM to give me idiomatic code, and I will see if it checks out or not.