I’m an experienced programmer. I’ve used Claude Code and though it’s initially impressive the results are still hit and miss. If the job is very simple and/or you’re starting from scratch it can do OK but it takes a bit of time to review what it did. If it isn’t simple or you’re working on a large and complex code base the chances of it getting it right get low enough that you’re on balance better off doing it yourself. You’re going to have to review all the changes carefully anyway, and if they’re not right you’ll be backing them out and retrying different prompts repeatedly when you could just be writing the code.

I work in IT, I’m not a coder. I’ve seen this stuff used for office things and the output from all that is basically trash.

It’s like having a child for an assistant who is high on LSD all the time but has a remarkable grasp on the English language despite all of that, and they speak incredibly confidently regardless of the topic.

The work basically needs to be double checked at every step and often needs to be rewritten. It doesn’t really save time, just moves your workload from producing the text to being a copy editor.