Post #994595

2026-04-06 12:59 UTC

There&#39;s been a push to make sure everyone is using AI at work. So I&#39;ve been reluctantly using it now and then. I had to make a handful of UI changes across different areas of the app. Rather than digging in and finding them, I asked Claude where to find those in the code and what change to make. It gave the right answers and I implemented them as it said and it worked. It was faster than if I&#39;d dug through the code myself. Maybe I learned a little bit. This is not a pro-AI post.

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@toddanderson@mstdn.social 2026-04-06 14:02

@bit101 I have not gone full plunge, but yes I use it for tasks similar to these and it is useful and if you stop and read the explanations (if asking for them specifically) they can be quite enlightening. What I am getting frustrated at is bug reports that come in with attachments of what Claude thinks is wrong after analyzing the issue. Often it is way off-base because it can't know of all peculiarities and history and I can immediately (eventually) find the cause...

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@davebauerart@mastodon.social 2026-04-07 00:13

@bit101 Interesting. My whole career was learning all kinds of stuff looking through the code to find the thing. Again, I think I am not necessarily typical but it worked for me!

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@nanjizal@peoplemaking.games 2026-04-07 18:05

@bit101 AI is like a calculator was back in the day - it does not make someone good at abstract maths but it helps with the simple stuff that many of us are bad at. AI is just a tool but if like me you are rubbish at writing your ideas cleanly with grammar then it can fix. You still need the ideas!

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