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Nervous about making posts on my project
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this post was submitted on 06 Jul 2026
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What if I do have the chops to quality check and actually do treat Claude like a junior coder?
I often use it for annoying tasks like "transform this data structure into the one which is specified in the new major version of the upstream API" and write a test before.
It basically saves me typing things and I would need to test my own code anyway. That's one of the good use cases: glorified autocomplete 😅
When you have an actual junior coder, they learn over time, including from their mistakes, until they're a senior coder that can do the same for others. When you're "treating Claude like a junior coder", you're just cleaning up after a mostly unchanging system. See also this article by a Zig contributor.
And having AI do annoying tasks (which you then need to double-check if correct anyway) you're missing out on the opportunity to get better at problem solving by skipping the part where you find a programmatic solution, even if it's a one-time thing. (Though when you work on an open source project, it's nice if others can verify how you got to your solution in the first place.)
Says every Dunning-Kruger sufferer who don't and can't 😉 I don't need to doubt your skills and dilligence, just those of every lazy hack who whack out slop projects without a second thought.
Sorry, but I think those outnumber capable, security-minded developers by a large factor.