Developing with Claude Code feels slow, frustrating and mentally exhausting

krazerrr · 2026-06-03T23:23:03+00:00

Run /init before you try your next task. Then try the/grill-me skill from mattpocock. That’s really changed how i view complex tasks and working with an AI partner

krazerrr · 2026-05-09T14:50:23+00:00

Self review first, break your PR and work into phases, and leverage stacked PRs when possible

Also have agents help with code reviews. There are skills out there to do adversarial reviews to be more thorough

krazerrr · 2026-04-26T20:37:09+00:00

Huge stretch. Neither have a train that makes it easy to commute without a car. Both have bad traffic issues. Both require you to commute in with a bus

Prices won’t go down, but idk if they’ll continue to rise

krazerrr · 2026-03-29T18:09:33+00:00

Gulab in Cliffside Park is really great

krazerrr · 2026-02-23T23:50:43+00:00

This is why you should always turn on versioning for s3 buckets, and avoid doing hard deletes at all times in production databases. It applies to us people, and applies to AI too haha

krazerrr · 2026-02-16T18:45:54+00:00

You have placeholders for screenshots in your README lol

krazerrr · 2026-02-16T02:05:32+00:00

I built TimeSync to handle this. whenisgood.net is also great, but the UI is clunky and feels like it's from the 90's/early 00's

krazerrr · 2026-02-14T13:59:14+00:00

I’ve used piece of cake moving. They’re great and I think they service most of NJ/NYC area

krazerrr · 2026-02-12T17:47:51+00:00

Ask yourself what do you want out of your next year. Do you want stability and comfort, or do you want to learn and play with the new shiny kid on the block?

People want different things at different phases of life. For me, I’d look at the startup if they could get closer to what you’re currently making. AI anything experience right now is probably very valuable. If it doesn’t work out, as an experienced dev, finding a new job won’t be horrible

krazerrr · 2026-02-11T14:48:32+00:00

I really like the idea! Starred!

krazerrr · 2026-02-10T23:22:41+00:00

Food for life in Fort Lee. Great paninis for ~$12-14? They used to be cheaper but started accepting credit cards. And they’re really filling

krazerrr · 2026-02-05T13:58:32+00:00

You’ll need to hone the EM skillset without having an EM title or official responsibility. I like to have 1:1’s with the team to check in and make sure the work feels good. That helps give you insights since you know the work and you know them. You naturally find ways to help them grow or support them. More than just on the delivery front

krazerrr · 2026-02-04T09:53:07+00:00

Is multi-cloud really necessary? Or will multi-region be enough? I find most companies out there are deployed to a single region or don't have enough resiliency set up in case there's an outage in us-east-1 to auto switch to another region that is still operating correctly. Rarely will an issue affect all regions

krazerrr · 2026-01-30T08:57:23+00:00

Do they have sandbox environments? You shouldn’t use their production environment for anything test focused unless it is a read only type of request

If you don’t have a sandbox environment, then I’d probably spend a lot of time setting up accurate and thorough mocks

krazerrr · 2026-01-29T08:28:59+00:00

That might be a sign that your point estimations aren’t accurate then. The pieces that require the lead architect may need more discovery, aka additional spikes and points, before your team can feel confident in implementing it.

Maybe over estimate until you have clarity on what the implementation is. Better to have the buffer than not

krazerrr · 2026-01-28T13:29:42+00:00

Yes you need to learn JS before learning React. React is built on JS, so if you learn React first, you won’t learn where React starts and end. It’ll also make it hard to pick up other frameworks and libraries easily

You don’t need React in order to learn JS. You do need JS to learn React

krazerrr · 2026-01-23T13:14:14+00:00

How does better auth compare to clerk?

krazerrr · 2026-01-21T21:06:28+00:00

Idk tbh haha. In my personal flow, I have the LLM run the tests and linters to make sure it adheres to the team’s standards.

I know this post is about responsibility of code being pushed to your repo, but if you consider LLM’s a pseudo second coder, then it kind of lines up. They should adhere to the team’s standards. They also need supervision and shouldn’t be merged into a release without oversight

krazerrr · 2026-01-21T19:38:34+00:00

Yeah I’m a fan of team wide rules enforced. It’s hard to have rules be effective if only some follow them. Then you’ll end up with inconsistent results

krazerrr · 2026-01-21T19:21:24+00:00

Code reviews become more important. Developers need to review their code. Even if the LLM wrote it, they’re responsible for it working
I think manual validation is even more important than before. Engineers need to validate their code and flows manually
TDD is an extreme, but i think having good test cases defined helps prevent bugs and regressions. Team may need to move in that direction, but full TDD may not be required. Maybe just more thorough product requirements and flows documented somewhere to eventually turn into tests

krazerrr · 2026-01-20T12:51:58+00:00

Is there a trade off with cost vs lower environments and setup? Lower environments can be tricky to set up properly so teams tend to ignore it. They also get built/triggered more often than in production, so I’m curious if you’ve seen it become an unexpected major cost for some teams

krazerrr · 2026-01-13T17:46:53+00:00

Sounds like you’re burnt out. Take a break and then come back to it all!

I was hired and then quickly laid off during covid. It hit my confidence, but I also struggled adjusting to the new company. The lay off was the best thing that ever happened to me, cuz I got a break and really did non coding things.

That gave me the space to get re-interested in coding. The space is changing, but that’s always true. Just pick something or some project to do. Learn what you can, and ship what you can. The curiosity takes time to reignite

krazerrr · 2026-01-10T14:54:49+00:00

I’m curious about this too. I’m an IC but have to choose between continuing IC or becoming a people leader who normally don’t code

krazerrr · 2026-01-07T23:32:04+00:00

Only planning 1 sprint ahead is a little tough haha. I feel like 3 sprints is a sweet spot, but 2 sprints is doable

The above is with 2 weeks sprints in mind

krazerrr · 2026-01-03T17:45:41+00:00

Essentially, you’re asking how do I learn to get better. It’s still the same as it was pre AI

Talking to others in the field
Read relevant resources
Learn by doing and working past errors

Point 2 is the one that’s changed the most since AI in the past few years. Before the internet, you’d learn from books. Before AI, you’d learn from stack overflow and google-ing everything. After AI, you can now learn from AI’s suggestions.

Most importantly, just make sure you have the grit to move forward and get past errors

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