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I hope it’s at least a little tricky, since Claude was released only 3 years ago. That said, I would not be surprised to see companies asking for 10 years exper

I hope it’s at least a little tricky, since Claude was released only 3 years ago. That said, I would not be surprised to see companies asking for 10 years experience, despite that inconvenient truth.

deadbabe 7mo ago
If you work on 10 projects in parallel for a year using Claude code… you have the equivalent of 10 years of experience in 1 year.
- weird-eye-issue 7mo ago
  That's not how it works...
  - _aavaa_ 7mo ago
    If you can add more people to finish a project faster, I can add more projects to get experience faster.
    - weird-eye-issue 7mo ago
      I actually prefer removing people
    - lurking_swe 7mo ago
      You’re very confused i think. Adding more people to a project doesn’t improve throughout - past a certain point. Communication and coordination overhead (between humans) is the limiting factor. This has been well known in the industry for decades. Additionally, i’d much rather hire someone that worked on a a handful of projects, but actually _wrote_ a lot of the code, maintained the project after shipping it for a couple years, and has stories about what worked and didn’t, and why. Especially a candidate that worked on a “legacy” project. That type of candidate will be much more knowledgeable and able to more effectively steer an AI agent in the best direction. Taking various trade offs into account. It’s all too easy to just ship something and move on in our industry. Brownie points if they made key architecture decisions and if they worked on a large scale system. Claude building something for you isn’t “learning” in my opinion. That’s like saying I can study for a math exam by watching a movie about someone solving math problems. Experience doesn’t work like that. You can definitely learn with AI but it’s a slow process, much like learning the old fashioned way. Maybe “experience” means different things to us…
  - fl7305 7mo ago
    You've never seen project managers basically propose the equivalent of getting a baby delivered in 1 month instead of 9 months by adding more people to the project? But yeah, if the recruiters start asking for "10 years experience with Claude Code", then I guess a tongue-in-cheek answer would be "sure, I did 10 projects in parallel in one year".
    - lbreakjai 7mo ago
      Duh, just use Claude to 10x your productivity and get 10 years experience with Claude in one year.
    - cyanydeez 7mo ago
      Mythical Man Month -> Mythical Agent Swarm
  - deadbabe 7mo ago
    It actually is. A year of experience is not equal at different companies. You could spend years writing very little code and have “years of experience” in a language, and you can also output intense volumes of work and still be within a year. Of those two people, the one who spent less real time but produced more work, can have the equivalent experience of the person who spent years. The key is to figure out how much work a person using Claude Code would have been expected to produce in 10 years, then find a way to do that much in a single year. Boom, you just solved the years of experience problem.
- ipaddr 7mo ago
  No you would have ten projects finished. You would have less than a year of actually programming experience.
conductr 7mo ago
I’ve seen it play out multiple times, highlights precisely why a candidate should never withhold their application based on preference of years of experience with anything. They simply haven’t put much thought into those numbers.

deadbabe 7mo ago

If you work on 10 projects in parallel for a year using Claude code… you have the equivalent of 10 years of experience in 1 year.

weird-eye-issue 7mo ago
That's not how it works...
- _aavaa_ 7mo ago
  If you can add more people to finish a project faster, I can add more projects to get experience faster.
  - weird-eye-issue 7mo ago
    I actually prefer removing people
  - lurking_swe 7mo ago
    You’re very confused i think. Adding more people to a project doesn’t improve throughout - past a certain point. Communication and coordination overhead (between humans) is the limiting factor. This has been well known in the industry for decades. Additionally, i’d much rather hire someone that worked on a a handful of projects, but actually _wrote_ a lot of the code, maintained the project after shipping it for a couple years, and has stories about what worked and didn’t, and why. Especially a candidate that worked on a “legacy” project. That type of candidate will be much more knowledgeable and able to more effectively steer an AI agent in the best direction. Taking various trade offs into account. It’s all too easy to just ship something and move on in our industry. Brownie points if they made key architecture decisions and if they worked on a large scale system. Claude building something for you isn’t “learning” in my opinion. That’s like saying I can study for a math exam by watching a movie about someone solving math problems. Experience doesn’t work like that. You can definitely learn with AI but it’s a slow process, much like learning the old fashioned way. Maybe “experience” means different things to us…
- fl7305 7mo ago
  You've never seen project managers basically propose the equivalent of getting a baby delivered in 1 month instead of 9 months by adding more people to the project? But yeah, if the recruiters start asking for "10 years experience with Claude Code", then I guess a tongue-in-cheek answer would be "sure, I did 10 projects in parallel in one year".
  - lbreakjai 7mo ago
    Duh, just use Claude to 10x your productivity and get 10 years experience with Claude in one year.
  - cyanydeez 7mo ago
    Mythical Man Month -> Mythical Agent Swarm
- deadbabe 7mo ago
  It actually is. A year of experience is not equal at different companies. You could spend years writing very little code and have “years of experience” in a language, and you can also output intense volumes of work and still be within a year. Of those two people, the one who spent less real time but produced more work, can have the equivalent experience of the person who spent years. The key is to figure out how much work a person using Claude Code would have been expected to produce in 10 years, then find a way to do that much in a single year. Boom, you just solved the years of experience problem.
ipaddr 7mo ago
No you would have ten projects finished. You would have less than a year of actually programming experience.

conductr 7mo ago

I’ve seen it play out multiple times, highlights precisely why a candidate should never withhold their application based on preference of years of experience with anything. They simply haven’t put much thought into those numbers.