Some people like to brag about how productive they have become with AI, but I see them spending a few hours a week adjusting which model to use, trying the new shiny harness or writing Claude skills.

Are you really more productive if instead of coding you are spending your time tweaking the AI to do what you want?

“Modern kids don’t program, they just play with frameworks”

Well of course people adjust their harnesses, skills and whatnot - that is how programming looks like now. You don’t touch the code, you build a machine that builds the code instead.

The question is how much people can produce this way. Me, personally, a ton - right now I feel I can do in a week what would take me a month-two. And I’ve had 20 years of experience in programming.

Yes.

I ran /insights on Claude Code and it said code review was my most requested activity. I turned it into a skill that autodiscovers the project's structure and launches a huge matrix of parallel critic agents, each focusing on one specific area of the codebase and a quality like correctness, maintainability, security, etc. Supports file system style journaling to deal with subscription usage limits and interruptions.

Took maybe a few hours to fine tune this and then I applied it to all of my projects, and it's actually absurd how productive it is. This is basically an infinite GitHub issue generator. I run it and then start checking off the items in order to definitely improve the status quo. Review again, fix again. Just loop this until zero issues found. The only question is whether to fix the issues myself or tell Claude to do it. I still do it myself in the projects I really care about.

That's just what the people that liked to put a lot of effort into customizing their IDEs or WMs have moved to.

eh, that seems like the least harmful part of this entire thing, we've had that for decades https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=urcL86UpqZc