2026-01-19 02:36 UTC
Been doing a bit of coding-assistant dev this weekend on a side project that amuses me, and I think I've discovered why I enjoy this kind of work, whether it's actually "more productive" or not.
I am a pedantic, verbose person. Everyone who works with me knows this. Why they still ask me questions is a mystery.
A coding assistant never tires of my "but you should also consider…" And so I am allowed to pontificate, and no person must suffer through my soliloquy. The world is a better place.
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@cocoaphony@mastodon.social 2026-01-19 02:47
But to be a bit serious about what a coding assistant has unlocked. I've been poking around with Opus 4.5, while mostly cleaning the basement, on this project to grab CI "flaky test" logs and work out exactly what test is causing the problem and then fix it. And it just works. I mean, let it grind for 15 minutes, and it spits out "right there's your problem; here's the fix." And yeah, I could have done it by hand, sure. But I've put it off for months because it's so tedious.