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Head of development @ retino.com
I'm seeing legitimate 10x gains because I'm not writing code anymore – I'm thinking about code and reading code. The AI facilitates both. For context: I'm maintaining a well-structured enterprise codebase (100k+ lines Django). The reality is my input is still critically valuable. My insights guide the LLM, my code review is the guardrail. The AI doesn't replace the engineer, it amplifies the intent.
Using Claude Code Opus 4.5 right now and it's insane. I love it. It's like being a writer after Gutenberg invented the printing press rather than the monk copying books by hand before it.
If my app crashes and blasts hundreds of errors in seconds, does Telebugs have built-in rate limiting or backpressure? Or do I need to overprovision hardware/implement throttling myself?
With SaaS tools, spike protection is their problem. With self-hosted, I’m worried about overwhelming my own infrastructure without adding complexity.
Anyone running this in production?
However, the challenge has shifted to code review. I now spend the vast majority of my time reading code rather than writing it. You really need to build strong code-reading muscles. My process has become: read, scrap it, rewrite it, read again… and repeat until it’s done. This approach produces good results for me.
The issue is that not everyone has the same discipline to produce well-crafted code when using AI assistance. Many developers are satisfied once the code simply works. Since I review everything manually, I often discover issues that weren’t even mentioned. During reviews, I try to visualize the entire codebase and internalize everything to maintain a comprehensive understanding of the system’s scope.
My problem with it is when its editing large files (1000+ LOC), because requests consume very many tokens AND it has problems editing the code so that sometimes its cycling infinitely trying to modify two lines in some function.
Anyway, I like it more then Cursor, because of the controll I have over the model and in some subjective ways its more pleasing to me seeing it "work".
Lets say, I want some outcome and it will autonomousl handle the process prompt me and the other side for additional requirements if necessary and then based on that handle the process and reach the outcome?
Ive experimented with automated code generating agent systems on localhost multiple times. Ive got some ok results when it was a project spanning over multiple files without any dependencies. But when I tried to cross a milestone of creating a web apps with lets say flask and some db, ive hit a wall. The problem were the dependencies and api hallucinations and the version/api inconsistencies of dependencies in genereated code. The system had a feedback loop with self-written tests, but even the output of the tests fell into neverending loop. Maybe the problem was python? Maybe annotations would help, maybe should use go?