Interacting with Claude Code felt like an actual collaboration with a fellow engineer
… Interacting with Claude Code felt like an actual collaboration with a fellow engineer. People like to compare it to working with a “junior” engineer, and I think that’s broadly accurate: it will do whatever you tell it to do, it’s eager to please, it’s overconfident, it’s quick to apologize and praise you for being “absolutely right” when you point out a mistake it made, and so on. I don't know what "fellow engineers" the author is accustomed to collaborating with, junior or otherwise, but the attributes enumerated above are those of a sycophant and not any engineer I have worked with. Finally, the author asserts: I’m sure that if I really wanted to, I could have done this modernization effort on my own. But that would have required me to learn kernel development as it was done 25 years ago. This could also be described as "understanding the legacy solution and what needs to be done" when the expressed goal identified in the article title is: ... modernize a 25-year-old kernel driver Another key activity identified as a benefit to avoid in the above quote is: ... …
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