I find it strange to see people writing articles like this as if everyone has used AI for decades. I've programmed for decades. I thought I retired three years ago but got an offer I couldn't refuse. Already there were little things I'd forgotten how to use.
Over the past six months I tried using Claude, chatgpt, Grok and Gemini. At best I got reminders of how things worked. People online say they use them to write their code. The code they supplied to me has NEVER worked or was so convoluted that I threw it away and did it myself.
At most, I use these tools as search engines. Even then some references are poor.
I'm starting to think this is becoming a sad, sad world and AI is just the new TV of the programming world.
Did you set up context? Did you run it in existing code base? Do you have linters, unit tests?
I have JIRA mcp wired up I tell agent to pick up the ticket it makes a feature. I review PR deploy to test server click happy flow through.
It works for me and company I work for. There is a world of difference between using Claude Code, Cursor configured properly and just using copy paste code with chat interface.
I am always baffled by how people take their experience as „this is ultimate truth”.
>I am always baffled by how people take their experience as „this is ultimate truth”.
People are just recounting their experiences. It’s true my first experiences were all terrible with AI, I’m still just getting to a workable experience. It’s better when it can iterate a bit, that hides the fact that the first pass might have hallucinated junk that is smoothed over in subsequent passes.
The way I read what parent poster wrote is that he is quite confident what he wrote is some kind of universal truth.
He is showing no doubt backed by his extensive experience — while we have loads of other people writing about their experience that is totally opposite.
Well yes people writing about their opposite experience also have the same issue.
For me for example TDD never landed, it was always too much hassle for not enough return on investment. Scrum/Agile the oposite it landed quite well despite of what I read every day how useless it is. For me AI also landed, it wasn't that way 3 years ago, exactly 3 years ago I could have written the same experience as the parent poster.
assimpleaspossi · · focus · HN ↗
Over the past six months I tried using Claude, chatgpt, Grok and Gemini. At best I got reminders of how things worked. People online say they use them to write their code. The code they supplied to me has NEVER worked or was so convoluted that I threw it away and did it myself.
At most, I use these tools as search engines. Even then some references are poor.
I'm starting to think this is becoming a sad, sad world and AI is just the new TV of the programming world.
ozim · · focus · HN ↗
I have JIRA mcp wired up I tell agent to pick up the ticket it makes a feature. I review PR deploy to test server click happy flow through.
It works for me and company I work for. There is a world of difference between using Claude Code, Cursor configured properly and just using copy paste code with chat interface.
I am always baffled by how people take their experience as „this is ultimate truth”.
ozim · · focus · HN ↗
When used in projects with good practices it was writing good code.
Isamu · · focus · HN ↗
People are just recounting their experiences. It’s true my first experiences were all terrible with AI, I’m still just getting to a workable experience. It’s better when it can iterate a bit, that hides the fact that the first pass might have hallucinated junk that is smoothed over in subsequent passes.
ozim · · focus · HN ↗
He is showing no doubt backed by his extensive experience — while we have loads of other people writing about their experience that is totally opposite.
Well yes people writing about their opposite experience also have the same issue.
For me for example TDD never landed, it was always too much hassle for not enough return on investment. Scrum/Agile the oposite it landed quite well despite of what I read every day how useless it is. For me AI also landed, it wasn't that way 3 years ago, exactly 3 years ago I could have written the same experience as the parent poster.