I realized that the software he had made was actually better than what I would have made, because he understood the problem better than I ever will, Because it was his job to understand the problem, not to write code.
It was the first time I realized that AI can totally replace me in my traditional job of trying to understand client’s wants and needs and convert them into an application by writing some code.
I knew Claude was powerful and spent months creating skills prompts etc but this guy did it from scratch.
However, it is totally viable for internal tools, rapid prototyping, experiments, etc.
Frankly, there’s no faster or cheaper way to get such feature rich apps, and it was certainly better then what a cheap agency from far-away would produce.
Not only was the code better, the whole product was better than what I would have made (before coding LLMs), because he understood the domain, and AI filled in many details that I wouldn’t spent time on. (Again, pre-LLM)
I’m just… multiple times a week I’m sitting at my screen like, wtf will I do? What will my job be? I have plenty of time to think about it while Claude basically handles everything I throw at it.
Good thing I spent months learning to apply skills and such so my value is “experience with using LLM tools” (: