alt Hacker NewsYes, I’m a senior engineer at a 3-engineer startup, and there isn’t “junior-level” or “senior-level” work here. It’s all just work. Claude allows me to tear through the kind of gruntwork I’ve been doing ad nauseam for the last 15 years.
If my tasks were things like squeezing 3% more efficiency out of an algorithm, that might be different. Although, even then, my PM (!) used Claude to boost the efficiency of one of our more complex Postgres queries by up to 5x, in ways I honestly would not thought of doing. It was quite humbling. A former engineer here used pgMustard on the same query a couple years ago and claimed it was as fast as it could get.
I can’t speak for the kind of work done in the higher echelons of big tech, but for us, there isn’t much that Claude can’t help with.
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> Although, even then, my PM (!) used Claude to boost the efficiency of one of our more complex Postgres queries by up to 5x
Would you be kind to describe what test set-up do you have that a PM felt safe enough to deploy the changed query without the fear they'll break something?
Yeah those single points of failure/bottlenecks are prefect focal points for people with floating responsibilities and a good understanding of how to use claude.
The system-sweeping features I still would ask to review, but you can't argue with a DB query just getting faster.