Using Claude Code to modernize a 25-year-old kernel driver

A good case study. I have found these two to be good categories of win:

> Use these tools as a massive force multiplier of your own skills.

Claude definitely makes me more productive in frameworks I know well, where I can scan and pattern-match quickly on the boilerplate parts.

> Use these tools for rapid onboarding onto new frameworks.

I’m also more productive here, this is an enabler to explore new areas, and is also a boon at big tech companies where there are just lots of tech stacks and frameworks in use.

I feel there is an interesting split forming in ability to gauge AI capabilities - it kinda requires you to be on top of a rapidly-changing firehose of techniques and frameworks. If you haven’t spent 100 hours with Claude Code / Claude 4.0 you likely don’t have an accurate picture of its capabilities.

“Enables non-coders to vibe code their way into trouble” might be the median scenario on X, but it’s not so relevant to what expert coders will experience if they put the time in.

this is a fantastic summary of how LLMs can be used in general. I have found chatgpt/gemini to be useful in following scenarios 1. ELI5 with examples on any technical paper. This summarises papers and explains to me in a way i can understand. 2. At my work, we have to make a lot of proposals, so I have a project created where I put public documents that I can share for proposals and then share the Statement of Work, and it creates a technical document in my format which is about 70% right. I can add/modify the remaining 30% 3. > Use these tools as a massive force multiplier of your own skills. - This is massive when I want to start a new code base. I spend so much time in my head architecting that tools like these help create a boiler plate and structure. 4. Many times, I have stupid ideas but not enough time to waste coding those stupid ideas. The tools help me right terrible codes for my stupid ideas!! :)