I've also been toying with Claude Code recently and i (as en eng, ~10yr) think they are useful for pair programming the dumb work.
Eg as i've been trying Claude Code i still feel the need to babysit it with my primary work, and so i'd rather do it myself. However while i'm working if it could sit there and monitor it, note fixes, tests and documentation and then stub them in during breaks i think there's a lot of time savings to be gained.
Ie keep the doing simple tasks that it can get right 99% of the time and get it out of the way.
I also suspect there's context to be gained in watching the human work. Not learning per say, but understanding the areas being worked on, improving intuition on things the human needs or cares about, etc.
A `cargo lint --fix` on steroids is "simple" but still really sexy imo.
Eg as i've been trying Claude Code i still feel the need to babysit it with my primary work, and so i'd rather do it myself. However while i'm working if it could sit there and monitor it, note fixes, tests and documentation and then stub them in during breaks i think there's a lot of time savings to be gained.
Ie keep the doing simple tasks that it can get right 99% of the time and get it out of the way.
I also suspect there's context to be gained in watching the human work. Not learning per say, but understanding the areas being worked on, improving intuition on things the human needs or cares about, etc.
A `cargo lint --fix` on steroids is "simple" but still really sexy imo.