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Absolutely. Effective LLM-driven development means you need to adopt the persona of an intern manager with a big corpus of dev experience. Your job is to enforce effective work-plan design, call out corner cases, proactively resolve ambiguity, demand written specs and call out when they're not followed, understand what is and is not within the agent's ability for a single turn (which is evolving fast!), etc.

The use case that Anthropic pitches to its enterprise customers (my workplace is one) is that you pretty much tell CC what you want to do, then tell it generate a plan, then send it away to execute it. Legitimized vibe-coding, basically.

Of course they do say that you should review/test everything the tool creates, but in most contexts, it's sort of added as an afterthought.

I had to fall back to that to deliver anything recently - but the last two months were really comfy with me just saying "do x" and just going on a walk and coming back to a working project.

Claude is still useful now, but it feels more like a replacement for bashing on a keyboard, rather than a thinking machine now.