I used to see the 20 meta agentic tool thumb twiddling last year such as with Ralph loops and plan modes, but since this year with frontier models, they just...do what you tell them, so I've seen that a lot less today. And thus the people use Claude Code are lapping manual coders, at least from what I've seen.

Seeing the kinds of stuff my coworker is spitting out into merge requests on my codebase via Claude Code is sometimes baffling. It's literally spaghetti code. I won't be surprised if the advent of LLMs causes power usage to surge globally, not only because they themselves use a lot of power, but because the code they spew out is horrendously ugly and inefficient. And then the time they take to sort out the spaghetti code they spat out, to add new features on top, takes even longer and uses more power than before. It's gonna be a mess. I don't see how we can keep going down this road without huge investments into nuclear power collectively.

It does not just do what you tell it, the last six hours of my day are a fckn testament to that fact.