Erik Schluntz · Anthropic · 2024-07-30
Schluntz broke his hand and was forced to do all his coding through an AI. Two months later he doesn't want to go back. The piece is half memoir, half practitioner's manual: how to delegate, when to verify, what kinds of tasks AI handles well, and where it still fails badly. The constraint is what makes it credible — he had no choice but to find what works.
Worth a learner's time because it cuts through the abstract "AI will change software engineering" discourse with one engineer's actual workflow. The compiler analogy at the end is the kind of frame that reorients how you think about the entire tooling stack.
> Going back to non-AI tools would feel like giving up compilers and writing Assembly by hand.