I’ve been trying to re-orient for this exact kind of workflow and I honestly can’t declare whether it’s working.
I’ve switched to using Rust because of the rich type system and pedantic yet helpful compiler errors. I focus on high level design, traits, important types - then I write integration tests and let Claude go to town. I’ve been experimenting with this approach on my side project (backend web services related to GIS - nothing terribly low level) for about 4 months now and I honestly don’t know if it’s any faster than just writing the code myself. I suspect it’s not or only marginally faster at best.
I often find that I end up in a place where the ai generated code just has too many issues collected over iterations and needs serious refactoring that the agent is incapable of performing satisfactorily. So I must do it myself and that work is substantially harder than it would have been had I just written everything myself in the first place.
At work - I find that I have a deep enough understanding of our codebase that the agents are mostly a net-loss outside of boilerplate.
Perhaps I’m holding it wrong but I’ve been doing this for a while now. I am extremely motivated to build a successful side project and try to bootstrap myself out of the corporate world. I read blogs and watch vlogs on how others build their workflows and I just cannot replicate these claims of huge productivity gains.
I’ve switched to using Rust because of the rich type system and pedantic yet helpful compiler errors. I focus on high level design, traits, important types - then I write integration tests and let Claude go to town. I’ve been experimenting with this approach on my side project (backend web services related to GIS - nothing terribly low level) for about 4 months now and I honestly don’t know if it’s any faster than just writing the code myself. I suspect it’s not or only marginally faster at best.
I often find that I end up in a place where the ai generated code just has too many issues collected over iterations and needs serious refactoring that the agent is incapable of performing satisfactorily. So I must do it myself and that work is substantially harder than it would have been had I just written everything myself in the first place.
At work - I find that I have a deep enough understanding of our codebase that the agents are mostly a net-loss outside of boilerplate.
Perhaps I’m holding it wrong but I’ve been doing this for a while now. I am extremely motivated to build a successful side project and try to bootstrap myself out of the corporate world. I read blogs and watch vlogs on how others build their workflows and I just cannot replicate these claims of huge productivity gains.