Comment by unshavedyak

> I just don't like reading other people's code lol.

I agree entirely and generally avoided LLMs because they couldn't be trusted. However a few days ago i said screw it and purchased Claude Max just to try and learn how i can use LLMs to my advantage.

So far i avoid it for things where they're vague, complex, etc. The effort i have to go through to explain it exceeds my own in writing it.

However for a bunch of things that are small, stupid, wastes of time - i find it has been very helpful. Old projects that need to migrate API versions, helper tools i've wanted but have been too lazy to write, etc. Low risk things that i'm too tired to do at the end of the day.

I have also found it a nice way to get movement on projects where i'm too tired to progress on after work. Eg mostly decision fatigue, but blank spaces seem to be the most difficult for me when i'm already tired. Planning through the work with the LLM has been a pretty interesting way to work around my mental blocks, even if i don't let it do the work.

This planning model is something i had already done with other LLMs, but Claude Code specifically has helped a lot in making it easier to just talk about my code, rather than having to supply details to the LLM/etc.

It's been far from perfect of course, but i'm using this mostly to learn the bounds and try to find ways to have it be useful. Tricks and tools especially, eg for Claude adding the right "memory" adjustments to my preferred style, behaviors (testing, formatting, etc) has helped a lot.

I'm a skeptic here, but so far i've been quite happy. Though i'm mostly going through low level fruit atm, i'm curious if 20 days from now i'll still want to renew the $100/m subscription.