I don’t think it’s the model, it’s more the process I don’t like. There is some appeal to programming for me in understanding things and creating something with my mind, not dealing with people but solid logic problems which are properly right or wrong and it’ll all come together from a small defined set of very basic things and then I combine them in some craft to achieve arbitrary things. It’ll come together in my mind and then I type everything down and figure out the rest and that’s kind of satisfying to me. AI programming feels more like sitting in endless meetings to discuss details and revise things, then fix stuff and that’s all the tings I don’t like, and in the meantime we’ve brushed over the one thing I did like. I’d rather it did the tedious things for me. Write specifications, documentation, sift through data and convert it, do correspondence and handle finances. Organize the mess on my computer and bring coffee… Idk. I guess I could break up tasks and delegate if it had the “intelligence” for it.
I think I tried most free commercial ones which didn’t need my phone number… Gemini (AIstudio), ChatGPT, Grok. I’ve experimented a bit with local ones like DeepSeek but I don’t really have the hardware for that, so it’s smaller variants and takes ages to ingest the code and write something.
(And btw I think the individual experience also depends on the task and programming language involved. Seems to me AI’s performance varies a lot depending on if it’s currently writing Python, JavaScript or C++ code for an embedded system… And sometimes coding problems are fairly contained and sometimes you need to have some overview of a larger codebase to tackle one single task. So I guess we might get different results depending on the specific project?!)
Got it, yeah I hated all of those too. Claude Max is a game changer if you’re looking for a better experience, since that experience is heavily tied to model choice.
I’ve found that I can spend two hours writing or 30 minutes editing, and so long as I understand every line I commit I’m keeping up my end of the bargain - but often that’s the bit where everyone gets lazy. I am also used to managing a bunch of junior engineers though, so this motion does feel very natural to me.
Thanks, yeah I can understand that. I’ll try to get ahold of an Anthropic account and see what it’s about. It’s not high priority for me, but eventually I’d like to know the truth. I have some random hobby projects with stuff I could throw at it.
What model are you using that caused you to “not fancy it?”
I don’t think it’s the model, it’s more the process I don’t like. There is some appeal to programming for me in understanding things and creating something with my mind, not dealing with people but solid logic problems which are properly right or wrong and it’ll all come together from a small defined set of very basic things and then I combine them in some craft to achieve arbitrary things. It’ll come together in my mind and then I type everything down and figure out the rest and that’s kind of satisfying to me. AI programming feels more like sitting in endless meetings to discuss details and revise things, then fix stuff and that’s all the tings I don’t like, and in the meantime we’ve brushed over the one thing I did like. I’d rather it did the tedious things for me. Write specifications, documentation, sift through data and convert it, do correspondence and handle finances. Organize the mess on my computer and bring coffee… Idk. I guess I could break up tasks and delegate if it had the “intelligence” for it.
I think I tried most free commercial ones which didn’t need my phone number… Gemini (AIstudio), ChatGPT, Grok. I’ve experimented a bit with local ones like DeepSeek but I don’t really have the hardware for that, so it’s smaller variants and takes ages to ingest the code and write something.
(And btw I think the individual experience also depends on the task and programming language involved. Seems to me AI’s performance varies a lot depending on if it’s currently writing Python, JavaScript or C++ code for an embedded system… And sometimes coding problems are fairly contained and sometimes you need to have some overview of a larger codebase to tackle one single task. So I guess we might get different results depending on the specific project?!)
Got it, yeah I hated all of those too. Claude Max is a game changer if you’re looking for a better experience, since that experience is heavily tied to model choice.
I’ve found that I can spend two hours writing or 30 minutes editing, and so long as I understand every line I commit I’m keeping up my end of the bargain - but often that’s the bit where everyone gets lazy. I am also used to managing a bunch of junior engineers though, so this motion does feel very natural to me.
Best of luck
Thanks, yeah I can understand that. I’ll try to get ahold of an Anthropic account and see what it’s about. It’s not high priority for me, but eventually I’d like to know the truth. I have some random hobby projects with stuff I could throw at it.