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Ask HN: How do you get comfortable with shipping code you haven't reviewed?

7 points fnimick | 5 comments | 15 Dec 25 15:01 UTC | HN request time: 0.918s | source

This is the advice I've gotten on how to adapt to AI driven development at breakneck speed - to the point of having AI tooling write and ship projects in languages the 'operator' doesn't even know. How do you get confidence in a workflow where e.g. a team of agents does development, another team of agents does code review and testing, and then it is shipped without a human ever verifying the implementation?

I hear stories of startup devs deploying 10-30k+ lines of code per day and that a single dev should now be able to build complete products that would ordinarily take engineer-years in under a month. Is this realistic? How do you learn to operate like this?

1. Sevii ◴[15 Dec 25 15:30 UTC] No.46275745[source]▶
You get confidence in things by doing them. If you don't have experience doing something, you aren't going to be confident at it. Try vibe coding a few small projects. See how it works out. Try different ways of structuring your instructions to the 'agents'.
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2. fnimick ◴[15 Dec 25 15:34 UTC] No.46275803[source]▶
Are there public examples of "good instruction" and an iteration process? I have tried and have not been very successful at getting Claude Code to generate correct code for medium sized projects or features.
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3. Sevii ◴[15 Dec 25 18:35 UTC] No.46278447[source]▶
Anthropic has a short training course https://www.coursera.org/learn/claude-code-in-action. There isn't really a lot of best practices at this point because the technology has improved significantly in 2025.
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4. Jeremy1026 ◴[15 Dec 25 18:55 UTC] No.46278693[source]▶
I had Claude write a piano webapp (https://webpiano.jcurcioconsulting.com) as a "let's see how this thing works" project. I was pleasantly surprised by the ease of it.

I actually just put together a write up showing my prompts and explaining what was generated after each, if you're interested at all https://jcurcioconsulting.com/posts/how-i-used-claude-code-t...

5. mkranjec ◴[15 Dec 25 19:51 UTC] No.46279529{3}[source]▶
Heads up, this is a paid course.