I use Claude Code almost daily now, and I think I’d rather cut off my own arm than go without it, but I don’t delude myself into thinking that current gen tools don’t have significant limitations and that it is my job to manage those limitations.

So just like any other tool really.

I have discovered this week that Claude is really good at redteaming code (and specs, and ADRs, and test plans), much better than most human devs who don’t like doing it because it’s thankless work and don’t want to be “mean” to colleagues by being overly critical.

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torium 5 days ago | parent [-]

Would you share with us what kind of job you do?

I keep seeing people saying how amazing it is to code with these things, and I keep failing at it. I suspect that they're better at some kinds of codebases than others.

	▲	girvo 5 days ago \| parent \| next [-]
		> I suspect that they're better at some kinds of codebases than others. Probably. My works custom dev agent poops the bed on our front-end monorepo unless you're very careful about context, but then being careful about context is sort of the name of the game anyway... I'm using them, mainly for scaffolding out test boilerplate (but not actual tests, most of its output there is useless) and so on, or component code structure based on how our codebase works. Basically a way more powerful templating tool I guess.
	▲	lewdwig 5 days ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		Devops/SRE/Platform Engineering Downside: lots of Python, and Python indentation causes havoc with a lot of agentic coding tools. RooCode in particular seems to mangle diffs all the time, irrespective of model.