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This sounds really simple to me - Claude doesn't produce code that meets your standards. So stop running under the assumption that it should. Use it for whippin
by codingdave 2y ago
This sounds really simple to me - Claude doesn't produce code that meets your standards. So stop running under the assumption that it should. Use it for whipping up simple code where it does a decent job, and do it yourself in areas where AI does not suffice.
- stuartjohnson12 2y agoI also don't produce code that meets my standards by default. I learned to code by competing in programming competitions, so I had a tendency to test by pushing and to write incomprehensible one-liners. Reading books helped me learn to write code worthy of a software engineer, it didn't come automatically. Similarly, Claude is capable of doing what I want it to in times when I'm specific enough about what I ask it for much faster than if I did it by hand. That said, Claude definitely does accelerate turning your codebase into mud if you let it handle all of its own thinking. I see this sentiment a lot on Hacker News and I really think it is similar to when new high level programming languages dropped and people were concerned about how un-optimized the compiled code was going to be.