Comment by cmrdporcupine

Exactly. I have all sorts of personal feelings about "AI" (I don't call it that, whatever) but spending a few days with Claude Code made it clear to me that we're in a new era.

It's not going to replace me, it's going to allow me to get projects done that I've backburnered for years. Under my direction. With my strict guidance and strict review. And that direction and review requires skill -- higher level skills.

Yes, if you let the machine loose without guidance... you'll get garbage-in, garbage-out.

For years I preferred to do ... immanent design... rather than up front design in the form of docs. Now I write up design docs, and then get the LLM to aid in the implementation.

It's made me a very prolific writer.