In the middle term, I almost feel less productive using modern GPT-5/Claude Sonnet 4 for software dev than prior models, precisely because they are more hands off and less supervised.
Because they generate so much code, that often passes initial tests, looks reasonable, and fails in nonhuman ways, in a pretty opinionated style tbh.
I have less context (and need to spend much more effort and supervision time to get up to speed to learn) to fix, refactor, and integrate the solutions, than if I was only trusting short few line windows at a time.
Because they generate so much code, that often passes initial tests, looks reasonable, and fails in nonhuman ways, in a pretty opinionated style tbh.
I have less context (and need to spend much more effort and supervision time to get up to speed to learn) to fix, refactor, and integrate the solutions, than if I was only trusting short few line windows at a time.