@nixCraft AI is a tool. People keep using it for the wrong purpose, or in a wrong way. It's no different than trying to use a butter knife to peel potatoes, or using a paring knife as a cleaver. If you understand what this tool is, how it works, and what it can actually do it's absolutely possible to use it productively and safely. Unfortunately, using common sense neither makes headlines nor does it pump stock, so nobody is talking about it.

@regularlabs Of course. It's the same reason I put break after a return or throw even though it's technically not necessary *today*. When that code is read and modified 6 months later any ambiguity can avalanche to a colossal bug which will ruin my month.

@alan What you might also not realize is that Claude ALWAYS adds itself as the co-author. Disabling that is a bit of a hidden option; I only found out it's even an option today, after a month and a half. That's why my MANUALLY REVIEWED AND EDITED commits show Claude as the co-author. So, don't jump into conclusions because it would appear you don't have the full picture ;)

@alan Sorry for coming off a bit aggressive, I have a limit of 500 characters on the server. Definitely not b&w view; if that's what you got, you misread me. 99.9% of the posts I see about AI are absolutist views (AI bad, AI is the future) with zero nuance or thought process behind them. AI is a tool. Who wields it matters more than which tool was used. Bad coders can use great tools to write horrible code, and great devs can use bloody Notepad to write great software.

@alan This kind of black-and-white thinking is moronic. AI code assistants are good at coding. Whoda thunk it?! It's only in the name! Why would I spend 2 days writing trite framework plumbing code when Claude Code can write it in <5 minutes, and I can code-review and polish it in 1–2 hours? The code is identical to what I'd have written without using Claude. How does using this tool suddenly makes the very same code you previously called "excellent" into crap?

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