Comment by erichocean

I've had AI write ~100% of my code for the last 7 months, but I acted as the "agent" so the AI had very high levels of direction, and I approved all code changes at every step, including during debugging.

Mostly Gemini Pro 2.5 (and now Gemini Pro 3) and mostly Clojure and/or Java, with some JavaScript/Python. I require Gemini's long context size because my approach leans heavily on in context learning to produce correct code.

I've recently found Claude Code with Opus 4.5 can relieve me of some of the "agent" stuff I've done, allowing the AI to work for 10-20 minutes at a time on its own. But for anything difficult, I still do it the old way, intervening every 1-3 minutes.

Each interaction with the AI costs at least a $1, usually more (except Claude Code, where I use the $200/month plan), so my workflow is not cheap. But it 100% works and I developed more high-quality code in 2025 than in any previous year.