~2 yoe SWE here. for around a year i was an llm boomer. I took the approach that even stuff like cursor was harmful for programming, and that every aspect of coding was a slow march that had to be practiced. TBF i worked with niche languages like template-heavy C++. obviously coding has now largely been automated away, and mostly the engineering is left to the human, especially for greenfield development. maybe not for refactoring / optimization. so, now I’m the bottleneck. how do I adapt to this? what I have found:
- llm’s onboard me to codebases much more quickly, i ask it to explain things in a for dummies way, then i dive deeper if necessary
- iterating on md files is hugely helpful, around 50% context window i dump progress and make the agent iterate on that my questions:
- how do i leverage llm better as an engineer, not a coder?
- where do i draw the line and do stuff myself? submitted by /u/Dramatic_Mixture231
Originally posted by u/Dramatic_Mixture231 on r/ClaudeCode
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