Comment by ianm218
14 hours ago
Many Claude Code power users don’t really use IDEs anymore, so the only purpose of them working from their laptop instead of a phone is because that is the normal way to do it.
Here is a real use case: you are are responsible for some alerting channel. You have datadog/ cloud logging/ github all connected. You see a bunch of alerts come through while you are out and about and you prompt CC to investigate - Claude triages and says “all of the sudden you are getting time outs from this bank API your company partners with, this started an hour ago. It’s happening on ~15% of requests”. So you ping the guy at your company who does vendor relationships and go back to your weekend.
This is a non hypothetical example. Obviously it would be better if your job had a real on call rotation and more robust alerting and you wouldn’t be getting slack alerts on the weekend… but I take the approach this job affords me a lot of nice flexibility so it’s ok
You don't have an on-call rotation but do have people dedicated to vendor relationships, and that guy works on the weekend? I'm not sure how you completely avoid getting alerts on the weekend for third-party payment processor issues, which can happen anytime, if you actually want to transact business on the weekend.
> You don't have an on-call rotation but do have people dedicated to vendor relationships, and that guy works on the weekend?
I'm an account manager. My clients will phone at almost any time, weekends included, if they feel there issue wasn't yet looked at by the on call dev.
I said vendor here but it’s more like banks we work with. So there’s someone responsible for the technical side of banking relationships.
But yeah it’s kinda a zone where most weekends there’s no problems so it’s not a huge priority… until it is
somehow having a contact at a bank who works on the weekend is more difficult to believe than a random vendor
Yeah good luck being employed in 3 years once this bubble popped when all you do is type some natural language into a phone screen. People being proud of not using an IDE anymore is such a foreign concept to me, who enjoys coding and got into the profession because of the love of that.
The “debugging” for these type of issues is looking at some logs and http responses and being like “ah if we get this error it means they restarted their firewall again and took us off the whitelist. Email that guy Joe at the bank and hope he responds”. It’s not rocket science or the majority of my job… but someone’s needs to do it. We automate all the stuff we can.
If you got into the industry due to enjoying the typing of code the future is looking pretty bleak.
I dunno.
I've been watching "How it's made" on Hulu to fall asleep at night.
I’m constantly surprised by how many things are made with human hands, despite the ability to automate.
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An enormous amount of on-call debugging is just natural language reading of logs.
> Many Claude Code power users don’t really use IDEs anymore
This is something we of the HN bubble take for granted. Most of us know how to type quickly and use editors and use macros and program scripting languages and compose regexes.
The vast majority of programmers do not know those things. As such, AI speeds them up tremendously.
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