Field Notes from Shipping Real Code with Claude

One of the exciting things to me about the ai agents is how they push and allow you to build processes that we’ve always known were important but were frequently not prioritized in the face of shipping the system.

You can use how uncomfortable you are with the ai doing something as a signal that you need to invest in systematic verification of that something. As a for instance in the link, the team could build a system for verifying and validating their data migrations. That would move a whole class of changes into the ai relm.

This is usually much easier to quantify and explain externally than nebulous talk about tech debt in that system.

Coming up next on Hackernews: Field Notes from Eating Real Pizza Made with Claude:

"The glue adds a flavor and texture profile that traditionalists may not be used to on their cheese pizza. But I've had Michelin-star quality pizzas without glue in them that weren't half as delicious as this one was with. AI-mediated glue-za is the future of pizza, no doubt about it."