> For example, they can teach me a library I haven’t used before.

How do you verify it is teaching you the correct thing if you don't have any baseline to compare it to?

That's what rubber ducking is

I am still working on tweaking how I work and design with Claude to hopefully unlock a level of output that I’m happy with.

Admittedly, part of it is my own desire for code that looks a certain way, not just that which solves the problem.

One recent example of boilerplate for me is I’ve been writing dbt models and I get it to write the schema.yml file for me based on the sql.

It’s basically just a translation, but with dozens of tables, each with dozens of columns it gets tedious pretty fast.

If given other files from the project as context it’s also pretty good at generating the table and column descriptions for documentation, which I would probably just not write at all if doing it by hand.

I’m doing a lot of upgrades to neglected projects at the moment and I often need to do the same config over and over to multiple projects. I guess I could write a script, or get AI to write a script, but there’s no standard between projects. So I need the same thing over and over but from slightly different starting points.

I think you need to imagine all the things you could be doing with LLMs.

For me the biggest thing is so many tedious things are now unlocked. Refactors that are just slightly beyond the IDE, checking your config (the number of typos it’s picked up that could take me hours because eyes can be stupid), data processing that’s similar to what you have done before but different enough to be annoying.

I’ve just had to do just this, a one line prompt and one example was the difference between mind numbing work and a comfortable cup of coffee away from the monitor.

In this case LLM is probably the answer. I’ve done this exact thing. No messing with regex or manual work. Type a sentence and examine the result in a diff.

There is some line here. I don’t know if it’s introvert/extrovert but here are my observations.

I’ve noticed colleagues who enjoy Claude code are more interested in “just ship it!” (and anecdotally are more extroverted than myself).

I find Claude code to be oddly unsatisfying. Still trying to put my finger on it, but I think it’s that I quickly lose context. Even if I understand the changes CC makes, it’s not the same as wrestling with a problem and hitting roadblocks and overcoming. With CC I have no bearing on whether I’m in an area of code with lots of room for error, or if I’m standing in the edge of a cliff and can’t cross some line in the design.

I’m way more concerned with understanding the design and avoiding future pain than my “ship it” colleagues (and anecdotally am way more introverted). I see what they build and, yes, it’s working, for now, but the table relationships aren’t right and this is going to have to be rebuilt later, except now it’s feeding a downstream report that’s being consumed by the business, so the beta version is now production. But the 20 other things this app touches indirectly weren’t part of the vibe coding context, so the design obviously doesn’t account for that. It could, but of course the “ship it” folks aren’t the ones that are going to build out lengthy requirements and scopes of work and document how a dozen systems relate to and interact with each other.

I guess I’m seeing that the speed limit of quality is still the speed of my understanding, and (maybe more importantly) that my weaponizing of my own obsession only works when I’m wrestling and overcoming, not just generating code as fast as possible.

I do wonder about the weaponized obsession. People will draw or play music obsessively, something about the intrinsic motivation of mastery, and having AI create the same drawing, or music, isn’t the same in terms of interest or engagement.

I don't feel like I need to say too much to the agent to get my work done. I'm pretty dang introverted.

I just don't enjoy the work as much as I did when was younger. Now I want to get things done and then spend the day on other more enjoyable (to me) stuff.

I don't think there's anything I could tell you about the companies I've built that would dissuade you from your perspective that everyone is as intellectually lazy as your projection suggests.