Often I am 80% confident that something is wrong, to me the appeal of Claude is that I can quickly check, and be certain that it is wrong and how it is wrong.
I find that this is most appealing when it’s my own idea that might be wrong. My local LLM is a surprisingly capable critic of my ideas. And it is very good at finding the one nasty corner case that will send my entire design back the drawing board. Of course, I’d find that corner case eventually, but it might be 12 hours of work later, or perhaps when I’m working on version 2 and I find out I committed to a bad API. Like any outside technical criticism, I’ll decide that half of it is probably wrong, and filter the other half through my own knowledge.
But none of this excuses either outsourcing my own thinking, or just parroting Claude at my coworkers.
I find that this is most appealing when it’s my own idea that might be wrong. My local LLM is a surprisingly capable critic of my ideas. And it is very good at finding the one nasty corner case that will send my entire design back the drawing board. Of course, I’d find that corner case eventually, but it might be 12 hours of work later, or perhaps when I’m working on version 2 and I find out I committed to a bad API. Like any outside technical criticism, I’ll decide that half of it is probably wrong, and filter the other half through my own knowledge.
But none of this excuses either outsourcing my own thinking, or just parroting Claude at my coworkers.
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