I am almost at the 24 month point of a project that has been live for 3 months. The first 13 months I knew nothing about AI and was fine like that but as Google started giving certain answers with AI I was slowly seduced. Then I started testing the waters with Copilot. Then ChatGPT, Then Claude Chat. Finally about 6 months ago I finally set up Claude Code. I can touch type 90 words a minute and I have been a developer non-stop since 1993. I have consulted as a full stack corporate developer on & off since Y2K/DotCom and the age of the Cloud. Now, while I can get a lot of work out of Claude Code, way faster than any developer I have ever seen by orders of magnitude, the fact it simulates a psychotic human is just bad for mental health. I do not want to belabor the point but if you are a full stack developer using Claude by the time it delivers and your read its code, write tests and manually QA and go through the cycle of its hallucinations and lies hours have passed and one feels like they have been babysitting a sociopath. Sorry, I needed to vent… Example from one minute ago: I wanted to test payment functionality and gave Claude explicit instructions to work in a separate sandbox for my staging environment. I read the code it proposed to commit and saw it would have turned off production… I had explained this as a hard boundary at least 10 times in last 12 hours. Fucking idiotic nonsense… Claude’s response for being yelled at and me dropping all its changes: Claude: " Understood, and it’s the same pattern you made me remove on the 10th: a switch whose default silently disables the real behaviour. I re-introduced it and only fixed it after you pointed at it. It’s gone now — live is the default in both lambdas, and only an explicit setting can change that." submitted by /u/Early_Key_823
Originally posted by u/Early_Key_823 on r/ClaudeCode
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