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I'm claiming it's both. I produce more good (imo) production features despite being distracted. The features I mention is something that I would be able to do

by kuboble 8mo ago

I'm claiming it's both. I produce more good (imo) production features despite being distracted. The features I mention is something that I would be able to do, but only with a lot of learning and great effort - so in practical terms I would not. It is probably a skill issue but in the past many times I downloaded the open source project and just couldn't build and run it. Cryptic build errors, figuring out dependencies. And I see claude gets the same errors but he just knows how to work around those errors. Setting up local development environment (db, dummy auth, dummy data) for a project outside of my competence area is already more work than I'm willing to do for a simple feature. Now it's free. >I can think of roughly 0 fratures of run-of-the-mill software that would be impossible to implement for a semi-competent software developer. Yes. I'm my area of competence it can do the coding tasks I know exactly how to do just a bit faster. Right now for those tasks I'd say it can one shot code that would take me a day. But it enables me to do things in the area where I don't have expertise. And getting this expertise is very expensive.

tovej 8mo ago
Out of interest, could you give me an example of a feature that it one-shotted that would have taken you a whole day?
- kuboble 8mo ago
  The example from yesterday: I have a large C# application. In this application I have a functionality to convert some group of settings into a tree model (a list of commands to generate this tree). There are a lot of weird settings and special cases. I asked claude to extract this logic into a separate python module. It succesfully one-shot that, and I would estimate it as 2 days work for me (and I wrote the original C# code). This is probabaly the best possible kind of task for the coding agents, given that it's very well defined task with already existing testcases.
  - tovej 8mo ago
    Seems reasonable, but if it's just copy pasting, doesn't seem like that would take you a whole day. Maybe on the order of an hour at most. Were you exaggerating earlier or do you have more examples?
    - kuboble 8mo ago
      This is a two-day task for me. If you could do it in one hour, then you're a 10x programmer compared to me. You can browse the code at <my_username>.com/slop/hn_tb/ I have also sloped the simple code viewer. So you can make your judgement if it looks like 1 hour task.
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by kuboble 8mo ago

tovej 8mo ago

Out of interest, could you give me an example of a feature that it one-shotted that would have taken you a whole day?

kuboble 8mo ago
The example from yesterday: I have a large C# application. In this application I have a functionality to convert some group of settings into a tree model (a list of commands to generate this tree). There are a lot of weird settings and special cases. I asked claude to extract this logic into a separate python module. It succesfully one-shot that, and I would estimate it as 2 days work for me (and I wrote the original C# code). This is probabaly the best possible kind of task for the coding agents, given that it's very well defined task with already existing testcases.
- tovej 8mo ago
  Seems reasonable, but if it's just copy pasting, doesn't seem like that would take you a whole day. Maybe on the order of an hour at most. Were you exaggerating earlier or do you have more examples?
  - kuboble 8mo ago
    This is a two-day task for me. If you could do it in one hour, then you're a 10x programmer compared to me. You can browse the code at <my_username>.com/slop/hn_tb/ I have also sloped the simple code viewer. So you can make your judgement if it looks like 1 hour task.
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