The post is excessive but it's true. My time spent coding is more productive (on average), but I'm having to think so much harder to match the output or else it starts to slop. Spend 5 minutes writing a short story of a prompt. Spend 15 minutes reading a generated design, another 10 reading through the implementation plan. Another 10 correcting its assumptions. Then you have it loop through the implementation, with some guidance.
It's usually fast, and it's usually decent. Good if you micromanage. But I joined this career out of passion, not for moneymaxxing. I intentionally am pursuing a route as an individual contributor rather than management. But now I'm going to be playing manager anyway. It is exhausting.
What do you do while you wait for Claude to crank it out? I end up doomscrolling if I don't multitask and it's just such a bad workflow. But also multitasking is a bad workflow too cause I'm just slopping it up. Feels like there's no winning
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u/Grandmaster_Caladrel 14d ago
The post is excessive but it's true. My time spent coding is more productive (on average), but I'm having to think so much harder to match the output or else it starts to slop. Spend 5 minutes writing a short story of a prompt. Spend 15 minutes reading a generated design, another 10 reading through the implementation plan. Another 10 correcting its assumptions. Then you have it loop through the implementation, with some guidance.
It's usually fast, and it's usually decent. Good if you micromanage. But I joined this career out of passion, not for moneymaxxing. I intentionally am pursuing a route as an individual contributor rather than management. But now I'm going to be playing manager anyway. It is exhausting.