A staff engineer's journey with Claude Code

Interesting that this guy uses AI for the initial implementation. I do the opposite. I always build the foundation. That way I know how things work fundamentally. Then I ask agents to do boilerplate tasks. They're really good at following suit, but very bad at architecture.

Yeah, LLMs are pretty bad at planning maintainable architecture. They don’t refactor it when code is evolving and probably can’t do it due to context limitations.