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Re:Show HN: I've asked Claude to improve codebase quality 20... by pdntspa on Thursday December 11, 2025 @12:22PM (#46234215)
My last job there was effectively a gun held to the back of my head, ordering me to use this stuff. And this started about a year ago, when the tooling for agentic dev was absolutely atrocious, because we had a CTO who had the biggest most raging boner for anything that offered even a whiff of "AI".

Unfortunately the bar is being raised on us. If you can't hang with the new order you are out of a job. I promise I was one of the holdouts who resisted this the most. It's probably why I got laid off last spring.

Thankfully, as of this last summer, agentic dev started to really get good, and my opinion made a complete 180. I used the off time to knock out a personal project in a month or two's worth of time, that would have taken me a year+ the old way. I leveraged that experience to get me where I am now.

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Re:Show HN: I've asked Claude to improve codebase quality 20... by rootnod3 on Thursday December 11, 2025 @12:44PM (#46234542)
Ok, now assume you start relying on it and let's assume cloud flare has another outage. You just go and clock out for the day saying "can't work, agent is down"?

I don't think we'll be out of jobs. Maybe temporarily. But those jobs come back. The energy and money drain that LLMs are, are just not sustainable.

I mean, it's cool that you got the project knocked out in a month or two, but if you'd sit down now without an LLM and try to measure the quality of that codebase, would you be 100% content? Speed is not always a good metric. Sure, 1 -2 months for a project is nice, but isn't especially a personal project more about the fun of doing the project and learning something from it and sharpening your skills?

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Re:Show HN: I've asked Claude to improve codebase quality 20... by pdntspa on Thursday December 11, 2025 @01:35PM (#46235155)
When the POS system goes down at a restaurant they'll revert to pen and paper. Can't imagine its much different in that case.
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