> I'd love to see a reproducible example of these tools producing something that is exceptional.
I’m happy that my standards are somewhat low, because the other day I used Claude Sonnet 3.7 to make me refactor around 70 source files and it worked out really nicely - with a bit of guidance along the way it got me a bunch of correctly architected interfaces and base/abstract classes and made the otherwise tedious task take much less time and effort, with a bit of cleanup and improvements along the way. It all also works okay, after the needed amount of testing.
I don’t need exceptional, I need meaningful productivity improvements that make the career less stressful and frustrating.
Historically, that meant using a good IDE. Along the way, that also started to mean IaC and containers. Now that means LLMs.
I’m happy that my standards are somewhat low, because the other day I used Claude Sonnet 3.7 to make me refactor around 70 source files and it worked out really nicely - with a bit of guidance along the way it got me a bunch of correctly architected interfaces and base/abstract classes and made the otherwise tedious task take much less time and effort, with a bit of cleanup and improvements along the way. It all also works okay, after the needed amount of testing.
I don’t need exceptional, I need meaningful productivity improvements that make the career less stressful and frustrating.
Historically, that meant using a good IDE. Along the way, that also started to mean IaC and containers. Now that means LLMs.