Google Engineer Credits Claude Code for Converting AI Coding Skeptic
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A former Google engineer who spent most of 2025 skeptical of AI coding says his view changed after a year of hands-on testing with Claude Code, which he now calls "works astonishingly well." In his account, Claude reviewed pull requests for his Ruby CLI framework Toys, grasped the project's own terminology and DSL, and caught subtle issues at what he describes as a mid-to-senior engineer level. He also says Claude migrated a 1990s-era PHP site to Jekyll in nearly an hour, and corrected a hallucination on its own when asked to check its work. These are the engineer's own reports of his testing, not independently verified results.
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A former Google engineer who spent most of 2025 as an AI coding skeptic now says AI coding "works astonishingly well" after a year of hands-on testing with Claude Code. Reviewing pull requests for his Ruby CLI framework Toys, Claude grasped the project's own terminology and DSL and caught subtle issues at a mid-to-senior engineer level. It also migrated a 90s-era PHP site to Jekyll in nearly an hour, self-correcting a hallucination when asked to check its work.
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