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I've been using Claude Code for a couple of days

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Re: I've been using Claude Code for a couple of days

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I have the same thought. I also want all politicians to stop using it. It might have been useful in the past but I’m now convinced it’s largely useless. A large part of the population actively shuns the website and the remainder is mostly people who love rage bait.

Re: I've been using Claude Code for a couple of days

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I must be the dumbest "prompt engineer" ever, each time I ask an AI to fix or even worse, create something from scratch it rarely returns the right answer and when asked for modification it will struggle even more. All the incredible performance and success stories always come from these Twitter posts, I do find value in asking simple but tedious task like a small refactor or generate commands, but this "AI takes the…

Can you clarify what tools and programming language you use? If find that the issue often is wrong tooling, exotic programming languages or frameworks.

Re: I've been using Claude Code for a couple of days

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I tried it too and tasked it to do a bigger migration (one web framework to another). It failed pretty bad where I stopped the experiment. It still gave me a headstart where I can take parts and continue the migration manually. But the worst thing was that it did things I didn't asked for like changing the HTML structure and CSS of pages and changing hand picked HEX color codes...

More about my experience on my blog: https://hartenfeller.dev/blog/testing-claude-code

Re: I've been using Claude Code for a couple of days

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The second paragraph is clearly sarcastic, but the rest seems genuine, so Im a bit confused.

I was confused untill I watched a video of it in use, nope it wasn't that sarcastic. https://youtu.be/W13MloZg03Y

That guy leads in with stating that he is missing "autocomplete" in claude code. Cleary a misunderstanding of the scope.

Re: I've been using Claude Code for a couple of days

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I must be the dumbest "prompt engineer" ever, each time I ask an AI to fix or even worse, create something from scratch it rarely returns the right answer and when asked for modification it will struggle even more. All the incredible performance and success stories always come from these Twitter posts, I do find value in asking simple but tedious task like a small refactor or generate commands, but this "AI takes the…

Can you clarify what tools and programming language you use? If find that the issue often is wrong tooling, exotic programming languages or frameworks.

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Re: I've been using Claude Code for a couple of days

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I must be the dumbest "prompt engineer" ever, each time I ask an AI to fix or even worse, create something from scratch it rarely returns the right answer and when asked for modification it will struggle even more. All the incredible performance and success stories always come from these Twitter posts, I do find value in asking simple but tedious task like a small refactor or generate commands, but this "AI takes the…

I have the same experience.

Where AI shines for me is as a form of a semantic search engine or even a tutor of sorts. I can ask for the information that I need in a relatively complex way, and more often than not it will give me a decent summary and a list of "directions" to follow-up on. If anything, it'll give me proper technical terms, that I can feed into a traditional search engine for more info. But that's never the end of my investigation and I always try to confirm the information that it gives me by consulting other sources.

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