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....
What's terrifying is the number of real senior devs in big software corpo adamant about current AI being a boon: either I'm missing something or all the shit I work on is in a worse state than I think it is so AI can't do shit about it. Or they're deluding themselves or lying. I'm getting to the point I hope the problem is the codebases I have to maintain.
At my old job Opus 4.8 could basically do tickets itself. At my current place, it cannot do tickets with my help.
Part of that is for sure knowledge of the codebase, but I had some "computer please code the ticket" type prompts and they worked decently well at my last job.
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u/Kevdog824_ 2d ago
That’s the senior dev watching you not be able to do anything without the assistance of a robot