← All IntelClip / EntertainmentLetting the model overrule personal code taste
From Boris Cherny: Claude Code & the Future of Engineering | Acquired Unplugged · ≈27:15
“We have no classes in the codebase. We only have functions in the codebase because that's the way that I write my code.”
“And then at some point the model started writing all the code and it just started writing classes and I was like okay well maybe the model's right like maybe this opinion is kind of stupid”
“something that people talk a lot about is like the alpha is product taste. And I think this is also going to go away.”
“right now most of the ideas are bad, but maybe 20% are good.”
What’s in it
- Why a founder abandoned his no-classes rule when AI won
- How 'product taste as alpha' may soon disappear too
- Running hundreds of agents to mine feedback and pick features
Clip transcript
I I feel like every time I think there's, you know, something kind of special about the way that I do coding, I'm wrong. I I used to have all these opinions about the way that we write the code. like um you know I I I really like functional programming and so you know I'm a big like I like like Haskell and Scull and these kind of weird functional languages and at the very beginning I had this rule for our codebase. We have no classes in the codebase. We only have functions in the codebase because that's the way that I write my code. That's the way that I like it. And um on the weekends engineers just started sneaking in changes that had classes. And uh I would find that on Monday and then I would like pull out the pull requests and I would be like no no no don't do that. And then at some point the model started writing all the code and it just started writing classes and I was like okay well maybe the model's right like maybe this opinion is kind of stupid and it's just like this particular thing that I have but in it doesn't matter because the business outcome is met and it's met faster as a result and the code actually is not bad. Um and obviously the code's been getting better over time. And so I I feel like every time that I have this kind of like sense that like I'm special in in some way I'm often proven wrong. And and I think right now kind of with the current model capability, something that people talk a lot about is like the alpha is product taste. And I think this is also going to go away. Like this is the alpha today. But also, you know, right now I have, you know, like a couple hundred quads running doing stuff and a bunch of them are looking at like Twitter feedback and they're looking at like GitHub issues and they're looking at Slack and they're figuring out what to build next. And right now most of the ideas are bad, but maybe 20% are good. if you wait for the next model and you know if you project out maybe three months six months most ideas will probably be good um and you know there's gonna be some new there's gonna be some new thing there's gonna be something else that we're really grate
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