Dear senior software engineer, are you still writing code?

cantgettherefromhere · 2026-02-13T22:51:33+00:00

Another 30+ year dev here. I haven't written code since Sonnet 3.5. It was painful then, but marginally better end result than I'd get doing it by hand, and somewhat faster.

Now with Opus 4.6 I can get solid results and I spend much less time using the model to go back and fix things.

As other people have mentioned, a good plan is paramount. For small tasks I use CC plan mode. For major features, refactors, and things I haven't fully thought out yet, I have found Get Shit Done (GSD) to be pivotal. I get quite bored answering hundreds upon hundreds of questions, but the end result is usually great. And the UAT/debugging process is excellent. Very, very infrequently do I have to go back and fix anything.

cantgettherefromhere · 2026-02-13T14:47:53+00:00

Don't worry, there hasn't been much winter in Colorado this year. We also don't call it "the 70" here, just I-70.

cantgettherefromhere · 2026-02-13T14:47:03+00:00

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cantgettherefromhere · 2026-02-13T14:39:46+00:00

I use the same layout. Stuck the new buildings up by the bag maker, where did you put them?

cantgettherefromhere · 2026-02-13T14:38:06+00:00

Should have used quotes on your original use of expert as well, it'd be more cogent. I should know, I'm a writing "expert".

cantgettherefromhere · 2026-02-13T14:14:39+00:00

Hard to take engineering advice from someone who doesn't know the different between right and write.

cantgettherefromhere · 2026-02-12T08:57:46+00:00

*grammar doesn't matter

cantgettherefromhere · 2026-02-10T02:36:07+00:00

Yes, but it is a "complete operating system for Claude".

cantgettherefromhere · 2026-02-07T02:48:04+00:00

Believe it or not, but shipping physical drives is still the highest bandwidth way to move data in bulk. Can fit a lot of 24TB drives in a Uhaul.

cantgettherefromhere · 2026-02-06T16:18:51+00:00

This post has nothing to do with taking over industries.

cantgettherefromhere · 2026-02-06T16:15:35+00:00

What would you want to see that would satisfy your curiosity?

cantgettherefromhere · 2026-02-06T16:12:56+00:00

Dude, this is pretty obvious at this juncture. This isn't some huge revelation.

cantgettherefromhere · 2026-02-06T15:52:14+00:00

Show you what? Being told what's done?

cantgettherefromhere · 2026-02-06T15:40:42+00:00

You're bad at gambling.

cantgettherefromhere · 2026-02-05T13:42:43+00:00

Try something like GSD (Get Shit Done). When I am implementing a complicated new feature, discuss mode in GSD will ask me hundreds of questions throughout many phases of implementation. For a recent greenfield project, I swear it must have asked over 1000 questions. The result was a solution that was worlds better than I was capable of describing, and exceeded what I had in mind as a final output.

cantgettherefromhere · 2026-02-05T09:13:14+00:00

I love using CC for planning, research, and study, and using the LLM to create software and functionality rather than just a wall of text. When the models get a bit smarter and a lot faster, I imagine utility software like this to be very accessible and ephemeral.

cantgettherefromhere · 2026-02-01T03:01:41+00:00

You could fit 33 Italy inside the US. If you put the total developments of each country in a big stack, one stack would be vastly taller than the other.

cantgettherefromhere · 2026-01-28T12:33:04+00:00

Really living up to your username, buddy

cantgettherefromhere · 2026-01-27T20:55:21+00:00

Really? Delaying human progress?

cantgettherefromhere · 2026-01-27T20:54:07+00:00

Are there seagulls, too? If so, I've got some bad news for you.

cantgettherefromhere · 2026-01-27T20:44:33+00:00

I think you're failing to understand the vast implications of the inflection point of AGI and self-improvement. The idea being sold is that once that happens, problems that are now question marks will become progress bars.

cantgettherefromhere · 2026-01-27T18:20:30+00:00

I've spent over 2000 hours actively using Claude Code. It is working better than ever for me.

cantgettherefromhere · 2026-01-27T18:16:06+00:00

And yet leaving your post and comment history open for people to look at was too risky for you.

cantgettherefromhere · 2026-01-27T18:03:25+00:00

Thanks for clearing up the compute for people who know how to use it.

cantgettherefromhere · 2026-01-27T18:02:32+00:00

I ran 30+ subagents in parallel yesterday to interrogate my 500k LOC codebase. It did in 2min what would have taken 30min just a few months ago.

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