> Traditionally, coding involves three distinct “time buckets”:

> Why am I doing this? Understanding the business problem and value

> What do I need to do? Designing the solution conceptually

> How am I going to do it? Actually writing the code

> For decades, that last bucket consumed enormous amounts of our time. We’d spend hours, days or weeks writing, debugging, and refining. With Claude, that time cost has plummeted to nearly zero.

That last part is actually the easiest, and if you're spending inordinate amount of time there, that usually means the first two were not done well or you're not familiar with the tooling (language, library, IDE, test runner,...).

There's some drudgery involved in manual code editing (renaming variable, extracting functions,...) but those are already solved in many languages with IDEs and indexers that automate them. And so many editors have programmable snippets support. I can genuinely say in all of my programming projects, I spent more time understanding the problem than writing code. I even spent more time reading libraries code than writing my own.

The few roadblocks I have when writing code was solved by configuring my editor.

If we go with this analogy, we don't have advanced mech suits yet for this. To think an IDE is going to be the "visor", and to think copy-and-pasting is going to be jury-rigged weapons on the Mech is probably not it. The future really needs to be Jarvis and that Iron Man suit, whatever the programming equivalent is.

"Hey I need a quick UI for a storefront", can be done with voice. I got pretty far with just doing this, but given my experience I don't feel fully comfortable in building the mech-suit yet because I still want to do things by hand. Going to need a leap of faith here to trust the Mech. We've already started attacking the future by mocking it as "vibe coding". Calling it a "Mech" is so much more inspiring, and probably the truth.