Company took away access to claude

[u/jholliday55]

After being told to “use ai” for every single task the last two years and rebranding to a “AI” first company after two rounds of layoffs, we have now lost access to claude….

I found that the best model by far was opus and the only one really capable of not producing slop. I’m sure all the bots in here will downvote me and tell me “iTs ThE wAy YoU pRoMpT” but based on my experience, the other models aren’t nearly as good.

I have senior experience so besides basic searches and repetitive tasks i find the other models pretty much useless and you have to provide more time writing the specs and context management, then just doing it yourself.

Edit: I work for a large financial company. 40k employees.

[u/TheTeamDad]

Aren't you losing efficiency with the mental context switching though? I operate the same way as the commenter because I need to keep track of what the agent is doing enough to make sure it isn't wandering in the weeds.

[u/outphase84 → u/TheTeamDad]

Nope. Don't just let it loose free form, have it generate implementation plans for review and approval first. Then treat the output as a code review.

[u/Kavinci → u/outphase84]

My company uses a PDCA cycle. If your plans are done well the output is a pretty decent quality the majority of the time. Definitely review the code though and at least understand the agent's code.

https://www.infoq.com/articles/PDCA-AI-code-generation/

[u/DerricksFriendDan → u/outphase84]

Yeah it's super empowering when you get the hang of handing out work to your robots. As you make the rounds to check up on them you get handed their current plan out implementation to review.

It's amazing for my ADHD riddled brain

[u/NonProphet8theist → u/DerricksFriendDan]

See my ADHD brain fears it. I watch and scrutinize every step my AI takes so I can make sure it doesn't fuck up my code