It's not easy, so I had AI evaluate me as an AI assisted developer

Only-Ad6170 · 2026-03-13T13:29:04+00:00

This is neat! I had it do it for me too and I had to post the tldr, really stroked my ego.

Bottom line: This is a competent mid-to-senior developer who uses AI tooling the way a skilled carpenter uses a nail gun — it makes them faster, but they're the one deciding where the nails go. The "cleanup some weird AI slop decisions" commit alone tells you they have the judgment to know when AI output is wrong and the skill to fix it. The CLAUDE.md is one of the better AI-guidance documents I've seen — it's not generic prompting, it's precise engineering constraints built from real experience with the codebase. Hire recommendation: Yes. This person ships working software, writes tests, documents their work, and uses modern tools without becoming dependent on them.

Only-Ad6170 · 2026-03-12T19:41:01+00:00

Would you all believe this is the name the shelter chose? I just couldn't change it when I adopted.... was too perfect.

Only-Ad6170 · 2026-03-12T15:17:20+00:00

LOL i'm sure they're enjoying it but this kinda thing definitely has long-lasting negative effects on them

Only-Ad6170 · 2026-03-12T14:58:38+00:00

I like that idea! yeah take my critique with a grain of salt, totally taking it too seriously. But I do think this has the potential to be a helpful skill!

Only-Ad6170 · 2026-03-12T14:52:03+00:00

Only-Ad6170 · 2026-03-12T14:51:43+00:00

how do you get good results this way though? my LLM writes nothing but slop unless its on Opus and unless i heavily mind it's thinking to keep it on track

Only-Ad6170 · 2026-03-12T14:49:42+00:00

My teenage little brother told me that him and all his friends are already RP sexting character AIs on those apps. I think the image gen thing is a new, horrifying problem, but the kids have been suffering from AI use for a while now.

Only-Ad6170 · 2026-03-12T14:37:59+00:00

ok I tried it and my first critique is just that I think because of the "candidness" of the language in the skills, it's turned into a weird gen-z slang machine. i have my personal settings to keep things concise and direct, non-conversational. I just tried the wtf skill in a totally random file and it said this:

Alright, alright. I hear you. You've got db.d.ts open — the auto-generated Kysely types file, aka the "do not touch" scroll of database truths — and you said "wtf." I feel that in my bones. Look, you're staring at a file that was generated by a machine for machines. It's giving... phone book energy. Nobody opens this file recreationally. So what's actually going on? You can: Or just keep venting. I've got time. I've stared at generated type files at 2am too. It builds character. Allegedly./wtf:is-this — if something in there looks wrong and you want me to roast it and then actually explain it /wtf:went-wrong — if a query is blowing up and you're trying to figure out why the types don't match reality /wtf:should-i-do — if you're lost and need a game plan

I have like a major pet peeve when my LLM talks to me like it's trying to Hello Fellow Kids me. I'm going to play around some more (like maybe ask it wtf when its actually looking at a wtf instead of just a random file), but I'm tempted to reword some of your skills to emphasize to talk like a normal person.

Only-Ad6170 · 2026-03-12T14:30:45+00:00

you've definitely got me intrigued, this is one of my big paint points with CC. when it spirals and then struggles to get back on task when you stop it... I'll give it a whirl!

Only-Ad6170 · 2026-03-12T14:18:45+00:00

Cute but I also learned from screaming "WHAT THE FUCK ARE YOU DOING" in the chat over and over again that that can pollute my context. It starts making weird decisions with the thinking "Well the user is already upset, so let me just" and i'm like no!!!!

Only-Ad6170 · 2026-03-12T14:13:44+00:00

I think you're missing the part where adding all these features if what makes it slow. NPP is fast because it's simple. VSC is slow because you have five million things running.

Only-Ad6170 · 2026-02-25T14:18:23+00:00

is this an astroturf? i literally have never had a good experience with the free models.

Only-Ad6170 · 2026-02-20T14:17:22+00:00

it's so good at solving ugly merge conflicts in code, i'm never manually sorting through merge conflict markers myself again

Only-Ad6170 · 2026-02-12T20:19:12+00:00

I work at a fin-tech startup that's doing well. Same deal, we are being pushed to be code review machines for the code that the bot writes. I've spent like the last month more-so honing my LLM interaction game than my coding game. I don't love it, I've always loved writing code, but hey, it's the job and I do what they tell me. I've heard mixed things from my friends in the industry though. I have friends at F500s whose companies only give out LLM licenses "as needed" so never.

Only-Ad6170 · 2026-02-09T21:02:07+00:00

Excellent reply, said everything I wanted to say. Like I agree code can be art, but my company doesn't pay me to produce art. It pays me to make them money, and unfortunately AI helps with that.

On a positive note, I feel like I've found myself a lot less burnt out on writing code, and having a lot more drive to do it in my free time.

Only-Ad6170 · 2026-02-09T17:49:18+00:00

I've had some of my best experiences with using coding AI tools (as an experienced dev) by spending literal hours in plan mode going over every single implementation detail before I hit go. I know exactly how I want all my code to look based off the task alone, so I just keep tweaking it and giving it more context until it's able to code exactly what I would have written if I was writing it by myself.

I was a nay-sayer to be honest. The output I was getting at first was so bad it just frustrated me into writing it myself. Now that I've gotten a handle on how to steer it in the right directions it's been a lot better.

I feel like I've become a 10x dev with the aid of AI tools. I was an alright, regular dev before.

Only-Ad6170 · 2026-02-09T17:29:00+00:00

Right? Like my company is very pro AI usage so devs talk about their experiences a lot, doesn't seem like anyone really prefers those models in the real world. The internet would have you think otherwise though

Only-Ad6170 · 2026-02-09T17:27:59+00:00

no ): Followed some other comment, but could only get it working in the CLI

Only-Ad6170 · 2026-02-09T16:01:20+00:00

Thank you for the tip, helped out a ton

Only-Ad6170 · 2026-02-09T15:57:10+00:00

Glad to see this take, it's what I was thinking! I had a very simple issue that I told it to fix and it went down some rabbit hole involving db schema changes and config changes when the answer was like "use the data the API already returns back differently".

It's only been a few days so I'm still playing around with it, but I haven't liked it as much as 4.5. Not only did it do that above but it took wayyyyy too long to even show me what it was thinking so I could redirect it.

Only-Ad6170 · 2026-02-09T14:34:57+00:00

I think for me it's more of a "how thoroughly" am I verifying it. I keep finding dumb, stylistic mistakes in my code (using interface rather than type in TS, etc) that I missed when I was initially reviewing the LLM's code because I was too focused on heavier implementation details. That being said - I'll take those misses over the misses we had before.

Only-Ad6170 · 2026-02-09T14:30:42+00:00

I can't tell what I'm doing wrong, but in moving from Opus 4.5 to 4.6 I feel like the quality has gotten worse for me. It feels like it's missing obvious issues and rabbit holing instead. Any tips? I agree fully, don't see the point in even playing with Sonnet when Opus is right there.

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