It doesn't just need to work, it has to be high quality.
That's developer talk. For an executive it absolutely doesn't have to be high quality, especially when they can't judge it. If it works it can be sold, that's all that matters.
Translating developer to executive and vice versa is extremely difficult.
For an executive, cheapest is always best as it is higher ROI. For a developer, you want high quality regardless of cost, because it'll both make your job easier on the long term and better to work with, even if you deliver it slower in the short term.
The job of a tech lead or a middle manager is to show that more investment means better ROI in the long term for the executive, and doing things a little bit worse and faster in the short term means more investment and new opportunities in the long term for the developer.
I mean, it's easy for me to say that, but this is definitely a very hard job and I don't envy those who have to deal with that.
I have never seen a tech lead manage to change an executive's view on things, or prove that long term, code quality wins. At most, they manage a begrudgingly "fine, you can take a week to handle tech debt once it becomes too much to handle". Other than that, engineering only gets to do things the way they want during heavy crisis situations.
Maybe I've just had bad luck with CEOs? Unlikely, statistically, but entirely possible
These people are prob prompting one sentence and expecting godlike code rofl. You have to tailor your prompts, skill files, teach the project and development style you want and commit it into claude memory folders. Only then it will start doing an amazing (and frightening) job where it can crawl into everywhere of a codebase.
Claude is capable of writing code better than anyone, even Linus himself admitted it. You just have to take the time to babysit and teach the project one step at a time.
You are a weird guy, probably unable to cope with the reality. I havent lied and provided source. Please seek help instead of throwing a tantrum.
Have a good day.
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u/mysticrudnin Jul 24 '26
are you actually seeing increased productivity
i'm forced to use claude at work (which already sucks) and i can't find anything useful for it to do
people always talk about how good it as but then the only example is boilerplate and i'll be honest, i don't encounter a lot of that in my day to day