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I follow at least one GitHub repo (a well respected one that's made the HN front page), and where everything is now Claude coded. Things do move fast, but I'm s
by ncruces 9mo ago
I follow at least one GitHub repo (a well respected one that's made the HN front page), and where everything is now Claude coded. Things do move fast, but I'm seriously under impressed with the quality. I've raised a few concerns, some were taken in, others seem to have been shut down with an explanation Claude produced that IMO makes no sense, but which is taken at face value.
This matches my personal experience. I was asked to help with a large Swift iOS app without knowing Swift. Had access to a frontier agent. I was able to consistently knock a couple of tickets per week for about a month until the fire was out and the actual team could take over. Code review by the owners means the result isn't terrible, but it's not great either. I leave the experience none the wiser: gained very little knowledge of Swift, iOS development or the project. Management was happy with the productivity boost.
I think it's fleeting and dread a time where most code is produced that way, with the humans accumulating very little institutional knowledge and not knowing enough to properly review things.
- piker 9mo agoAny reason not to link to the repo in question?
- ncruces 9mo agoI'm just one data point. Me being unimpressed should not be used to judge their entire work. I feel like I have a pretty decent understanding of a few small corners of what they're doing, and find it a bad omen that they've brushed aside some of my concerns. But I'm definitely not knowledgeable enough about the rest of it all. What concerns me is, generally, if the experts (and I do consider them experts) can use frontier AI to look very productive, but upon close inspection of something you (in this case I) happen to be knowledgeable about, it's not that great (built on shaky foundations), what about all the vibe coded stuff built by non-experts?