Try Claude Code, especially with plugins and max plans.
All these AI coding tools make me feel like I have superpowers. It’s addictive.
If I had problems finding time and the mental power or motivation to work on projects a few years ago—projects I deemed too large a commitment of time and effort—today with Claude and Cursor I almost have too much time and bandwidth to take on new projects.
When I step back and realize this is the world we’re living in as programmers, I can barely believe it. I want to shout and laugh from joy.
It’s been months since I’ve manually written more than a few lines of syntax, and I can’t imagine ever going back.
If AI coding tools disappeared from the world today, tomorrow I would stop being a programmer—something I’ve done for over 20 years.
What is health of your enterprise code base? If it’s anything like ones I’ve experienced it’s a legacy mess then it’s absolutely understandable that an LLMs output is subpar when taking on larger tasks.
Also depends on the models and plan you’re on. There is a significant increase in quality when comparing Cursors default model on a free plan vs Opus 4.5 on a maximum Claude plan.
I think a good exercise is to prohibit yourself from writing any code manually and force yourself to do LLM only, might sound silly but it will develop that skill-set.
Try Claude code in thinking mode with the some super powers - https://github.com/obra/superpowers
I routinely make an implementation plan with Claude and then step away for 15 mins while it spins - the results aren’t perfect but fixing that remaining 10% is better than writing 100% of it myself.