Totally agree. I use for chores (generate an initial README, document the changes from this diff, summarize this release, scaffold out a new $LANG/$FRAMEWORK project) that are well understood. I have also been using it to work in languages that I can/have written in the past but are out of practice with (python) but I’m still babysitting it.

I recently used it to write a Sublime Text plugin for me and forked a Chrome extension and added a bunch of features to. Both open source and pretty trivial projects.

However, I rarely use it to write code for me in client projects. I need to know and understand everything going out that we are getting paid for.

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bdangubic 8 hours ago | parent [-]

> I need to know and understand everything going out that we are getting paid for.

what is preventing you from this even if you are not the one typing it up? you can actually understand more when you remove the burden of typing, keep asking questions, iterate on the code, do code review, security review, performance review… if done “right” you can end up not only understanding better but learning a bunch of stuff you didn’t know aling the way

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barrell 7 hours ago | parent [-]

I have never met an engineer whose abilities were limited by their typing speed. Most engineers can already type far faster than they can critically think/store memories

	▲	bdangubic 6 hours ago \| parent \| next [-]
		My abilities are limited by time, I don’t work (never have) more than 6-7 hours per day. Hence I automate everything that requires my time (and can be automated). If I have something that saves me 10 minutes per day, that is significant for me (should be for you too if you value your time). now imagine if I have something that saves me 90 minutes per day…
	▲	JustExAWS 5 hours ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		I don’t use Claude Code or any of the newer coding assistants. I use ChatGPT and tell it the code I want with the same type of specifications I would do when I am designing an implementation. It can definitely type 200+ lines of correct code faster than I could especially since I would need to look up the API calls for the AWS SDK. I treat it like a junior developer.