Maurice Parker
Daniel JalkutProgrammers aren't going anywhere. But to be frank, "Able to leverage AI assistance for massive productivity gains" should be at the top of your resume.
Huw Rowlands@danielpunkass no actually my name is at the top of my resume
Alex@danielpunkass I don’t like having an agent write my code for me. I use duck.ai a lot these days learning more about SwiftUI to say “how would I do $thing?” Then I examine the code it shows me, compare it with what I already know, look for potential issues, then write the thing I’m trying to learn/accomplish. What’s the point of having a bot distill the collective wisdom (and folly) of All The Developers™ if I don’t distill that into my own brain?
@alesplin If you ever use code completion then you're letting a computer "write code for you." Some of the stuff AI writes for me is just tedious. I know how to do it, but I'd rather just review it and approve.
@danielpunkass Yeah I use the old school Xcode completion that autocompletes method signatures, etc. I haven’t downloaded the predictive completion engine.
@danielpunkass When I get to the level of understanding with SwiftUI that I have with C and Objective-C, I’ll probably give it a whirl. Right now I value my own education more highly.
@alesplin Good call because the models don't know that much about SwiftUI anyway!
Steven Op de beeck@danielpunkass [citation needed]
Frank Reiff@danielpunkass .. and be a red flag.
Despite being all in on Claude Code, I am also aware of the fact that it is currently the getting from idea to first implementation that is 5x.
Then there’s the painful awakening that I don’t fully understand my own code base after a dozen or so CC interventions.
I’m reminded of the classic Douglas Adams quote:
"No matter how fast the body travels, the soul only travels at the speed of an Arcturan Mega-Donkey."
@frankreiff Yeah, I have to force it to take things slow. I was just doing a massive refactor and asked it to do one call site at a time so I could review. Setting it up with language like that helps a lot.
@danielpunkass yeah, I’ve zeroed in on that kind of work after going down the 8 agents in their own worktrees route.. there’s so much potential but the traps are incredibly hard to see.