Comment by matheusmoreira
3 hours ago
I did implement it though. I wrote the code myself. Claude explained to me how all of those things worked, showed me code and examples to illustrate, walked me through the algorithms step by step. It turned out to not be as insurmountably complex as I thought it was. I'm also manually writing articles about all of those things to crystallize everything I learned.
Claude has been amazing for code review. Having someone to talk to about my own code is world changing for a solo developer like me.
Oh ok that's different! From your comment I assumed that it was Claude Code doing the implementation while you only gave it high level concepts (e.g. "add a generational GC"). But if you use it as a resource to clarify concepts while you write the implementation yourself, then it's no different than having a tutor who helps you understand so you can do the homework yourself.
Given the article, I don't think most people are using LLMs in a "tutor" fashion to learn how to do the homework, they're effectively having their homework done by the tutor.
Yeah. I've also been using it as a manager of sorts. I'm not a very organized person. My mental OS can't schedule things properly and I have trouble starting tasks. Claude's been extremely helpful by giving me structure and direction. Just asking Claude to scour the project's chats and give me a list of steps I can easily and immediately start executing pretty much cured me of my ADHD. I frequently ask Opus to do full codebase reviews just so I can have it do this for me.
I totally made Claude do my own homework on my static site generator project though. It's even added itself as coauthor. Haven't even read the commits yet. It was just ripping out broken code and eliminating dependencies. Nothing that even approaches the complexity of my programming language work.