Comment by b_e_n_t_o_n

I'm really enjoying using Claude Code. There is a learning curve, and you have to set your project up in a way that helps these agents work better, but when you do it's a massive productivity boost with certain stuff. It's generated some decent looking landing pages and other UI stuff that I would have otherwise spent multiple hours on. It can even build some backend services that I would have also spent a couple hours on. This time adds up, which lets me see my family and friends more and that's the most important thing to me.

I don't really see it replacing us in the near future though, it would be almost useless if I wasn't there to guide it, write interfaces it must satisfy, write the tests it uses to validate its work etc. I find that projects become highly modularised, with defined interfaces between everything, so it can just go to work in a folder satisfying tests and interfaces while I work on other stuff. Architecting for the agents seems to lead to better design overall which is a win.

I'm just writing crud apps though, I imagine it's less useful in other domains or in code bases which are older and less designed for agents.

My next experiment is designing a really high level component library to see if it can write dashboards and apps with. It seems to struggle with more interactive UI's as opposed to landing pages.