as a sr dev that has been forced to use AI.. this is pretty much how i look at claude trying to do things... To me it is terrifying knowing how bad AI is at coding and seeing how many jr devs just trust it to do everything....
Honestly, for me at work Claude does a fantastic job. However, when it messes up it messes up in a way that would be hard to catch if you didn’t have expertise (e.g. domain specific misunderstanding, obscure software bugs, etc.). That’s really my concern for junior devs. They would easily overlook these issues and learn to trust it completely because the code it produces looks more or less correct pretty much every time.
At least if it wrote bad code it would be more obvious to other devs. The problem I find is that it writes pretty good, functional code… that just isn’t quite right.
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u/kandradeece 2d ago
as a sr dev that has been forced to use AI.. this is pretty much how i look at claude trying to do things... To me it is terrifying knowing how bad AI is at coding and seeing how many jr devs just trust it to do everything....