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  • I’m enjoying it, mostly. It’s definitely great at some tasks and terrible at orhers. You get a feel for what those are after a while:

    1. Throwaway projects - proof of concepts, one-off static websites, that kind of thing: absolutely ideal. Weeks of dev becomes hours, and you barely need to bother reviewing it if it works.

    2. Research (find a tool for doing XYZ) where you barely know the right search terms: ideal. The research mode on claude.ai is especially amazing at this.

    3. Anything where the language is unfamiliar. AI bootstraps past most of the learning curve. Doesn’t help you learn much, but sometimes you don’t care about learning the codebase layout and you just need to fix something.

    4. Any medium sized project with a detailed up front description.

    What it’s not good for:

    1. Debugging in a complex system
    2. Tiny projects (one line change), faster to do it yourself
    3. Large projects (500+ line change) - the diff becomes unreviewable fairly quickly and can’t be trusted (much worse than the same problem with a human where you can at least trust the intent)





  • We have a Nissan Leaf (30kWh) which has been great. No regrets.

    The things you worry about before buying (range, battery life) are absolute non-issues. For optimal battery longevity you don’t want to use a fast charger very often, so just charge it at home which is generally more convenient anyway. You can make exceptions occasionally when you need to.

    We use it for city driving, for which the range is more than adequate and we mostly only charge it every few days. We haven’t yet attempted to take it on a proper road trip; so far we just borrow a friend’s hybrid if we need to do that, basically to avoid having to think about charging.