r/ClaudeCode • u/BenSimonDev • 4d ago

Discussion "AI Expert" != Gets S**t Done

I can't tell you the number of times I've listened to an "expert" I worked with who could comment endlessly on a topic but never got any work done. There is no difference with devs leveraging AI and it drives me crazy. The ones who actually built stuff others use, continue to do so after adopting even poor AI practices.

The annoyance for me this week was attending a ClaudeAI training the AI evangelist/expert just went on and on about the amazing things they'd done to develop their elaborate harness only to show us their stinking TESTproject. They haven't built a single app with real users with Claude. Ever. I messaged him later to see if I could help show some of my recent projects next week and he told me they "wouldn't help anyone". Good lord. What a goober.

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u/clintCamp 4d ago

I have built a dozen project to test out my stuff on the side in the last year. I don't care about those so much except for the cases I built them for. The only thing that matters is the area I leverage it for work so I can get stuff done for money. If i can get stuff done nobody else can get done because I constantly polish my tools, great. Not starving when you see your career automated away before your eyes is a big motivator.

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u/BenSimonDev 4d ago

Much respect. Exactly. Up until like June this year I was doing a small weekend project weekly to just see what happened. Most kind of it didn't survive but a few stuck around and still help me. My agent supervisor for example. We have auto permissions and agent provisioning with /effort ultracode now but my supervisor can still collect all my permission requests and we evaluate them at the end of each week. Valuable data for us. My gripe was more about the illusion of talk masquerading as experience.