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What exactly have you written with Claude Code? I have not tried it, for a variety of reasons, but my (quite limited, anecdotal, and gratis) experience with ot

What exactly have you written with Claude Code? I have not tried it, for a variety of reasons, but my (quite limited, anecdotal, and gratis) experience with other such tools is, that I can get them to write something I could perhaps get as an answer on StackOverflow: Limited scope, limited length, address at most one significant issue; and perhaps that has to do with what they are trained on. But that once things get complicated, it's hopeless. You said Claude Code was significantly better than some alternatives, so better than what I describe, but - we need to know _on what_.

M4v3R 1y ago
Not with Claude Code but with Cursor using Claude Sonnet 4 I coded an entire tower defense game, title, tutorial, gameplay with several waves of enemies, and a “rewind time” mechanic. The whole thing was basically vibe coded, I touched maybe a couple dozen lines of code. Apparently it wasn’t terrible [0] [0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44463967 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44463967
UncleEntity 1y ago
I've been working on the design of a fairly complicated system using the daffy robots to iterate over a bunch of different ideas. Trying things out (conceptually) to explore the pros and cons of each decision before even writing a single line of code. The code is really a formality at this point as each and every piece is laid out and documented. Contrast this with the peg parser VM it basically one-shotted but needed a bunch of debug work. A fuzzy spec (basically just the lpeg paper) and a few iterations and it produced a fully tested VM. After that the AST -> Opcode compiler was super easy as it just had to do some simple (fully defined by this point) transforms and Bob's your uncle. Not the best code ever but a working and tested system. Then my predilection for yak shaving took over as the AST needed to be rewritten to make integration as a python C extension module viable (and generated). And why have separate AST and opcode optimization passes when they can be integrated? Oh, and why even have opcodes in the first place when you can rewrite the VM to use Continuation Passing Style and make the entire machine AST-> CPS Transform -> Optimizer -> Execute with a minimum of fuss? So, yeah, I think it's fair to say the daffy robots are a little more than a StackOverflow chatbot. Plus, what I'm really working on is a lot more complicated than this, needing to redo the AST was just the gateway drug.

M4v3R 1y ago

Not with Claude Code but with Cursor using Claude Sonnet 4 I coded an entire tower defense game, title, tutorial, gameplay with several waves of enemies, and a “rewind time” mechanic. The whole thing was basically vibe coded, I touched maybe a couple dozen lines of code. Apparently it wasn’t terrible [0] [0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44463967 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44463967

UncleEntity 1y ago

I've been working on the design of a fairly complicated system using the daffy robots to iterate over a bunch of different ideas. Trying things out (conceptually) to explore the pros and cons of each decision before even writing a single line of code. The code is really a formality at this point as each and every piece is laid out and documented. Contrast this with the peg parser VM it basically one-shotted but needed a bunch of debug work. A fuzzy spec (basically just the lpeg paper) and a few iterations and it produced a fully tested VM. After that the AST -> Opcode compiler was super easy as it just had to do some simple (fully defined by this point) transforms and Bob's your uncle. Not the best code ever but a working and tested system. Then my predilection for yak shaving took over as the AST needed to be rewritten to make integration as a python C extension module viable (and generated). And why have separate AST and opcode optimization passes when they can be integrated? Oh, and why even have opcodes in the first place when you can rewrite the VM to use Continuation Passing Style and make the entire machine AST-> CPS Transform -> Optimizer -> Execute with a minimum of fuss? So, yeah, I think it's fair to say the daffy robots are a little more than a StackOverflow chatbot. Plus, what I'm really working on is a lot more complicated than this, needing to redo the AST was just the gateway drug.