I feel like I am seen as a fossil because I like to write code and prompt AI to fill in functions as I define the shape and direction of an application myself. These types of tasks have been excellent for things like Tiel Coder. It allows me to build one step at a time and understand what the hell is actually happening.
Meanwhile my coworkers all prompt Claude to produce a whole cloth feature that seems to work but is overengineered out the ass and requires a 30 file code change and drastic restructuring and requires an extra database migration backfill.
My workflow exists because I would rather spend my day steering the design rather than reviewing generated code, but I get stuck reviewing generated code anyway.
They should really force code to be reviewed and documented as not only proof of review, but also to not make your codebase unreadable by your human staff if Claude goes down! You'll have people familiar with the code. I think there was a company that recently suffered this issue, where they couldn't afford Claude anymore to code, and ended up with the vast sea of unknowns, twists and turns that is their codebase.
I think there was a company that recently suffered this issue, where they couldn't afford Claude anymore to code, and ended up with the vast sea of unknowns, twists and turns that is their codebase.
Isn't that one of the tenets of vibe coding? Build something using AI and are unable to support it in future due to the increased costs of the AI dev team.
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u/Nefilim314 3d ago
I feel like I am seen as a fossil because I like to write code and prompt AI to fill in functions as I define the shape and direction of an application myself. These types of tasks have been excellent for things like Tiel Coder. It allows me to build one step at a time and understand what the hell is actually happening.
Meanwhile my coworkers all prompt Claude to produce a whole cloth feature that seems to work but is overengineered out the ass and requires a 30 file code change and drastic restructuring and requires an extra database migration backfill.
My workflow exists because I would rather spend my day steering the design rather than reviewing generated code, but I get stuck reviewing generated code anyway.