alt Hacker NewsHow do you justify your salary given that you're just using OSS compiler/editor any of us could use for free in your role ?
AI just changed how I edit code - I still see coworkers (senior developers) failing with Claude/Codex and get stuck when there are trivial solutions if you understand the full problem space. Right now AI is just a productivity tool.
Can you share how you use it to edit code? I‘ve seen a couple approaches, curious what you are doing:
1. Spec -> plan -> code (all agent driven, maybe with grill-me or ultraplan)
2. Handwritten spec -> agent driven plan -> agent driven code
3. Agent driven spec -> vibed code -> Fix by handholding until ok-ish
4. Vibed throwaway prototypes -> extract useful patterns -> rewrite with handholding
5. Generate file structure with handholding -> manual TODO comments -> Fill in blanks with handholding