Re:Labor market impacts of AI: A new measure and early evidence
by thesamethrowawa on Friday March 06, 2026 @04:49AM
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Are you able to share your prompts to Claude Code? I assume not, they are probably not saved - but this genuinely surprised me, it seems like exactly the type of task an LLM would excel at (no pun intended!). What model were you using OOI?
Re:Labor market impacts of AI: A new measure and early evidence
by laserlight on Friday March 06, 2026 @05:03AM
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> this genuinely surprised me
Me too. After listening to all the claims about Claude Code's productivity benefits, I was surprised to get the result I got.
I'm not able to share details of my work. I was using Claude Opus 4.5, if I recall correctly.
Re:Labor market impacts of AI: A new measure and early evidence
by shinycode on Friday March 06, 2026 @04:51AM
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The exact same prompt ? Everything depends on the prompt and it’s different tools. These days the quality and what’s build around the prompt matters as much as the code. We can’t feed generic query.
Claude Code took 4 hours, with multiple prompts. At the end, it started to break the previous fixes in favor of new features. The code was spaghetti. There was no way I could fix it myself or steer Claude Code into fixing it the right way. Either it was a dead-end or a dice roll with every prompt.
Then I implemented my own version with Cursor tab completion. It took the same amount of time, 4 hours. The code had a clear object-oriented architecture, with a structure for evolution. Adding a new feature didn't require any prompts at all.
As a result, Claude Code was worse in terms of productivity: the same amount of time, worse quality output, no possibility of (or at best very high cost of) code evolution.