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> A repeated trend is that Claude Code only gets 70-80% of the way, which is fine and something I wish was emphasized more by people pushing agents. I have bee
by preommr 1y ago
> A repeated trend is that Claude Code only gets 70-80% of the way, which is fine and something I wish was emphasized more by people pushing agents.
I have been pretty successful at using llms for code generation.
I have a simple rule that something is either 90%>ai or none at all (exluding inline completions, and very obvious text editing).
The model has an inherent understanding of some problems due to it's training data (e.g. setting up a web server with little to no deps in golang), that it can do with almost 100% certainty, where it's really easy to blaze through in a few minutes, and then I can setup the architecture for some very flat code flows. This can genuinely improve my output by 30%-50%
- randmeerkat 1y ago> I have a simple rule that something is either 90%>ai or none at all… 10% is the time it works 100% of the time.
- MPSimmons 1y agoAgree with your experiences. I've also found that if I build a lightweight skeleton of the structure of the program, it does a much better job. Also, ensuring that it does a full fledged planning/non-executing step before starting to change things leads to good results. I have been using Cline in VSCode, and I've been enjoying it a lot.