A staff engineer's journey with Claude Code

Does anyone have a link to a video that uses Claude Code to produce clean robust code that solves a non trivial problem (ie not tic tac toe or a landing page) more quickly than a human programmer can write? I don’t want a “demo”, I want a livestream from an independent programmer unaffiliated with any AI company and thus not incentivised to hype.

I want the code to have subsequently been deployed in production and demonstrably robust, without additional work outside of the livestream.

The livestream should include code review, test creation, testing, PR creation.

It should not be on a greenfield project, because nearly all coding is not.

I want to use Claude and I want to be more productive, but my experience to date is that for writing code beyond autocomplete AI is not good enough and leads to low quality code that can’t be maintained, or else requires so much hand holding that it is actually less efficient than a good programmer.

There are lots of incentives for marketing at the grassroots level. I am totally open to changing my mind but I need evidence.

I agree. Based on my very subjective and limited experience (plus friends/colleagues), when it comes to producing solutions, what you get from AI is what you get from your 2-day hackathon—then you spend months making it production-ready.

And your starry-eyed CEO is asking the same old question: How come everything takes so long when a 2-person team over two days was able to produce a shiny new thing?!. sigh

Could be used for early prototyping, though, before you hire your first engineers just to fire them 6 months later.

Yeah but you get the two days of hacking in 15 minutes.

And I highly doubt you spend months, as in 5+ weeks at the least making it production ready.

What even is "production readiness?" 100% fully unit tested and ready for planetary hyper scale or something? 95% of the human generated software I work on is awful but somehow makes people money.