Claude Code has killed my ADHD and turned me into an always-on hyper-focused machine.
I am getting 20x done. This is a literal superpower.
I am not using it in agentic mode yet. I am telling it everything I want it to do. I will tell it where I want the files, what I want structs to be named, how I want the SQL queries to join, etc. I then review every line and make edits (typically with Claude first).
I haven't tried the agentic stuff yet, but I probably will at some point soon. I'm anxious about losing control over the architecture and data model, which is something I feel gives me my speed with Claude Code and that I know is important for my engineering work and quality.
I won't be writing code by hand ever again. This is the future. We'll look back at the old way as horse carriages.
Claude is also really freaking good at Rust, and the fact that it emits proper Rust with tests makes me even more confident of my changes.
We are literally living in the future now. Twenty years of SaaS and smartphone incrementalism and now we have jet packs.
Instead of engineers inventing 50 different frameworks and conventions for any given language or platform, maybe that energy will be directed to creating better AI tools.
Edit: I'll also reiterate what others are saying in that I think this is a tool best leveraged by engineers who know what they're doing and that care about code quality. The results you get back will also depend on your repo/project's code quality. If your project is poorly structured or has a lot of cruft, Claude will see that and spit it right back out. Keeping your code clean and low on tech debt is going to matter tremendously.
Careful though: a lot of people are getting the feeling of getting 20x done. Do you have objective measurements?
> Claude Code has killed my ADHD and turned me into an always-on hyper-focused machine.
> I am getting 20x done. This is a literal superpower.
Adding this comment to favourites to revisit in half a decade.
I've already "made fun" of your exaggerated hype comments, so I'll use this opportunity to say that I hope you remain sane and grounded in your discoveries. You wouldn't be the first to go psychotic after interacting with these stochastic parrots.
100% feel the same way, and had the same starting point lol
>Instead of engineers inventing 50 different frameworks and conventions for any given language or platform, maybe that energy will be directed to creating better AI tools.
I think this will happen since one of the reason for new frameworks and languages was improving the human experience of coding, but now that friction goes away and AI doesn't feel that.
Although we might need to study which language AI is best at, and possibly invent new ones to maximize that.