I think if you’re a professional and you’re actually coding for >4 hours per day it makes sense. Also if you’re one of those weirdos that likes to command an army of agents.

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Oras 3 days ago | parent [-]

Well I’m a software engineer and code more than 4 hours per day.

But I do check the generated code, make sure it doesn’t go banana. I wouldn’t do multiple features at the same time as I have no idea how people are checking the output after that.

I like AI coding and it accelerated my work, but I wouldn’t trust their output blindly

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bodhiJhawken 13 hours ago | parent [-]

This is my thoughts exactly.

It speeds up so much of what I do, simple tasks are amazing to delegate to AI and it leaves me with more time in the day to tackle the big tasks.

My general rule of thumb now is I never get AI to build the bones of something which I believe I will need to build something else on top of later. But if it’s some throw away dead end feature that won’t require me to build more tooling on top of in future I’ll happily spin up a cloud agent and use the result.

	▲	teaearlgraycold 7 hours ago \| parent [-]
		They're really amazing for making one-off tools where you just need some clean output and can throw away the code afterwards. I had Claude Opus put together a data labeling web app with very little effort. Less work than creating an account on some SaaS and learning their system.