Me working at Jimmy Johns - slicing meat like a boss
Ms Thunder-Thighs Crack McPipe skips the line and goes straight to bathroom.
Boss comes out an hour later “Hey meat slicer. I need you to clean the bathroom.”
SHIT EVERYWHERE. On the floor, on the toilet, on the walls, ON THE 15 foot ceiling.
I quit in the spot.
Let me help you:
AI does create a lot of slop - but at the same time, a lot of people don’t know what capabilities exist and what’s just marketing/hyperbole.
They read “AI will replace software engineers” and think that they can just talk to an AI and spit out working production level code.
Not saying that’s you. I don’t know your work.
You don’t sit down and write 8,000 lines of code just one line after another. Shit - it could take me 3 days to figure WHERE to put 2 lines of code.
This allows specific contextual awareness. The more work you do in a project the more you can build off of it.
Organizing into context aware containers allows you to massively improve your code base because it actually accesses the code itself. Less guess - less slop. Not “no slop” just less.
It doesn’t replace everything, but recently I had Claude code evaluate ~43,000 lines of code. I verified its audits manually, and let it do its thing. I still had to make corrections on some assumptions it made but I fixed 110 critical bugs in an afternoon because of this system I’ve described.
If you’re expecting to say “build me x” it isn’t going to be successful.
Treat it like it’s a tool in the toolbox, not a replacement for good practices.
To your other note - the first time I tested Claude code I was blown away. Then the 2nd or 3rd time it took over… I felt like I lost my purpose. I need to be involved, not replaced.