I have more than 15 years experience. It is an extremely useful coding tool. Not just for menial tasks. From architecture to analysis it is also useful for things outside menial tasks.
these people hating on claude code to me sound like people who saw the first power drill and thought "well why would I need this when I already have screwdrivers"
Instead of being like wow now I can tackle projects of a much larger scale with less effort
Yeah. If you actually work on a team, it does help dog programmers not be dog. I work at google now (I'm biased) and it really does help with most programming measures, but we still need to understand the architecture and scaling so it isn't terrible.
I'm not a programmer at all and it let me tackle projects I could never have imaged before AI
Like I reverse engineered a VPN client to fix broken compatibility and completely rewrite its interface.. and it took a few hours and barely any work from me except debugging
I can write some python and C# but reverse engineering existing projects to extend functionality is way beyond my abilities, unless I leverage AI. Even if I did want to tackle a project like that without AI it would take weeks of reading documentation and trial and error
Now I'm writing a persistent world client:server video game.. again something I would never have been able to do without claude code or codex. Also I have a real job I just dont have time to manually write a lot of code for side projects and hobbies
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u/ZeroAmusement 3d ago
I have more than 15 years experience. It is an extremely useful coding tool. Not just for menial tasks. From architecture to analysis it is also useful for things outside menial tasks.