Re:Claude Code's DX is too good. And that's a problem
by christophilus on Sunday December 14, 2025 @03:33PM
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I know a lot about Typescript and its ecosystem. I’ve taught it to students, and worked on it at companies whose names you’d recognize. Claude Code is better than I am at some things that I know deeply, in some cases. It does stupid things on occasion (like use global mutable state), but it is still more useful than not. So, I guess it depends on how you define “better”, but I’ve learned things I didn’t know, and it allows me to do projects and experiments that I’d otherwise be too lazy to do.
I know approximately nothing about approximately everything. Claude seems pretty good at those things. But in every case I’ve used Claude Code for something I do know about it’s been unsatisfactory as a solo operator. It’s not useless, but it is basically useless for anything serious unless you’re very actively guiding it.
I think it has a lot of potential value and will become more useful over time, but it’ll be most useful when we can confidently understand the limitations.