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What if I do have the chops to quality check and actually do treat Claude like a junior coder?

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.)