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”.
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.