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Agreed, it's actually fun again. The evening hours I used to burn with video games and weed are now spent with claude code, rewriting and finishing up all my c

Agreed, it's actually fun again. The evening hours I used to burn with video games and weed are now spent with claude code, rewriting and finishing up all my custom desktop tools and utilities I started years ago.

ojr 1y ago
I still spend my evening hours like that and do ai-assisted coding in the background
- lupusreal 1y ago
  Depends on the game tbh, having claude ping me for attention every few minutes disrupts most games too much, but with turn-based or casual games it works out well. OpenTTD and Endless Sky are fun to play while claude churns.
  - epiccoleman 1y ago
    I really didn't need the cognitohazard thought that I could play Factorio and still somehow get things done
    - lupusreal 1y ago
      I'm 10 months clean on factorio, been doing the 12 step program for it. Feeling real tempted to relapse now...
cevn 1y ago
I had a lot of fun making 'tools' like this, but once I settled into a complicated problem (networking in a multiplayer game), it has become frustrating to watch Claude give back control to me without accomplishing anything, over and over again. I think I need to start using the SDK in order to force it to its job.
- lupusreal 1y ago
  I've got it using dbus, doing funky stuff with Xlib, working with pipewire using the pulseaudio protocol which it implemented itself (after I told it to quit using libraries for it.) You can't one-shot complicated problems, at least not without extensive careful prompting, but at this point I believe I can walk it through pretty much anything I can imagine wanting done.
- bcrosby95 1y ago
  I mean, yes. This is what Claude is good for: helping solve problems that aren't difficult or complex, just time consuming. The thing is a lot of software jobs boil down to not difficult but time consuming.
- jliptzin 1y ago
  It’s still better letting Claude slog through all that boilerplate and skeletal code for you so that you can take the wheel when things start getting interesting. I’ve avoided working on stuff in the past just because I knew I wouldn’t be motivated enough to write the foundation and all the uninteresting stuff that has to come first.
  - RobCat27 1y ago
    I've enjoyed using it for coming up with the structure of a project. I'll ask in search mode for structures of other similar projects if I'm not sure. I also enjoy making human-readable .md or .txt documentation files for myself very quickly with it.
- robotswantdata 1y ago
  Try giving codex IDE a go, now included with ChatGPT. Had equal frustrations with Claude making bad decisions, in contrast gpt5 codex high is extremely good!
- ajmurmann 1y ago
  I've found that in those cases, I likely am better off doing it myself. The LLMs I've used will frequently overfit the code when it gets complicated. I am working on a language learning app and it so often will add special-casing for words occurring in the tests. In general, as soon as you leave boiler-plate territory, I found it will start writing dirtier and dirtier code.
protocolture 1y ago
I had ChatGPT write from spec an assignment I failed to complete during university, that has always stuck with me as something I would like to finish.

ojr 1y ago

I still spend my evening hours like that and do ai-assisted coding in the background

lupusreal 1y ago
Depends on the game tbh, having claude ping me for attention every few minutes disrupts most games too much, but with turn-based or casual games it works out well. OpenTTD and Endless Sky are fun to play while claude churns.
- epiccoleman 1y ago
  I really didn't need the cognitohazard thought that I could play Factorio and still somehow get things done
  - lupusreal 1y ago
    I'm 10 months clean on factorio, been doing the 12 step program for it. Feeling real tempted to relapse now...

cevn 1y ago

I had a lot of fun making 'tools' like this, but once I settled into a complicated problem (networking in a multiplayer game), it has become frustrating to watch Claude give back control to me without accomplishing anything, over and over again. I think I need to start using the SDK in order to force it to its job.

lupusreal 1y ago
I've got it using dbus, doing funky stuff with Xlib, working with pipewire using the pulseaudio protocol which it implemented itself (after I told it to quit using libraries for it.) You can't one-shot complicated problems, at least not without extensive careful prompting, but at this point I believe I can walk it through pretty much anything I can imagine wanting done.
bcrosby95 1y ago
I mean, yes. This is what Claude is good for: helping solve problems that aren't difficult or complex, just time consuming. The thing is a lot of software jobs boil down to not difficult but time consuming.
jliptzin 1y ago
It’s still better letting Claude slog through all that boilerplate and skeletal code for you so that you can take the wheel when things start getting interesting. I’ve avoided working on stuff in the past just because I knew I wouldn’t be motivated enough to write the foundation and all the uninteresting stuff that has to come first.
- RobCat27 1y ago
  I've enjoyed using it for coming up with the structure of a project. I'll ask in search mode for structures of other similar projects if I'm not sure. I also enjoy making human-readable .md or .txt documentation files for myself very quickly with it.
robotswantdata 1y ago
Try giving codex IDE a go, now included with ChatGPT. Had equal frustrations with Claude making bad decisions, in contrast gpt5 codex high is extremely good!
ajmurmann 1y ago
I've found that in those cases, I likely am better off doing it myself. The LLMs I've used will frequently overfit the code when it gets complicated. I am working on a language learning app and it so often will add special-casing for words occurring in the tests. In general, as soon as you leave boiler-plate territory, I found it will start writing dirtier and dirtier code.

protocolture 1y ago

I had ChatGPT write from spec an assignment I failed to complete during university, that has always stuck with me as something I would like to finish.