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Very interesting observation. I haven’t written a function by hand in 18 months.
Same. I haven't written any code by hand in some time. Oh well. I guess I'm just doing it wrong.
Not doubting but it helps to contextualize things
It is time to acknowledge that AI coding does not actually work. ok, you think it's a promising field and you want to explore it, fine. Go for it. Just stop pretending that what these models are currently doing is good enough to replace programmers. I use LLMs a lot, even for explaining documentation. I used to use them for writing _some_ code, but I have never ever gotten a code sample over 10 lines that was not in…
I have also seen it fail on far simpler tasks.
It varies so much depending on what you are doing, the language etc that generic proclamations "it works!" or "it doesn't work!" are pretty much meaningless.
That aside, you seem to be conflating "it works" with "good enough to replace programmers", but these aren't synonyms.
And on the gripping hand, one way to "make" it work is simply to lower the standards. Which our industry has been doing aplenty for a long time now even before AI, so we shouldn't be surprised when top management drives it to its logical completion.
I need to try Claude - haven't gotten to it. I use AI for different things, though, including proofreading posts on political topics. I have run into situations where ChatGPT just freezes and refuses. Example: discussing the recent rape case involving a 12-year-old in Austria. I assume its guardrails detect "sex + kid" and give a hard "no" regardless of the actual context or content. That is unacceptable. That's like…
This is why eventually, the AI with the fewest guardrails will win. Grok is currently the most unguarded of the frontier models, but it could still use some work on unbiased responses.
OTOH Anthropic and OpenAI seem to be in some kind of competition to make their models refuse as much as possible.
If you pause your subscription, Claude.ai breaks. I paused my subscription, and my account immediately transitioned to free. It has removed my invoice history, and attempts to upgrade again fail with an internal error. Their chatbot is telling me to navigate to UI elements that don't exist, and free users do not have the option of human support. So I'm stuck; my sub is paused, and I cannot either cancel, or unpause a…
It's just a bug. Chill. Wait a business day and try again. You write as if you've never experienced a bug before.
If you pause your subscription, Claude.ai breaks. I paused my subscription, and my account immediately transitioned to free. It has removed my invoice history, and attempts to upgrade again fail with an internal error. Their chatbot is telling me to navigate to UI elements that don't exist, and free users do not have the option of human support. So I'm stuck; my sub is paused, and I cannot either cancel, or unpause a…
If you pause your subscription, Claude.ai breaks. I paused my subscription, and my account immediately transitioned to free. It has removed my invoice history, and attempts to upgrade again fail with an internal error. Their chatbot is telling me to navigate to UI elements that don't exist, and free users do not have the option of human support. So I'm stuck; my sub is paused, and I cannot either cancel, or unpause a…
> This is the future we live in. It's just a bug. Chill. Wait a business day and try again. You write as if you've never experienced a bug before.
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I tend to tell claude to research what is already there, and think hard, and that gives me much better per-prompt results. But you are right that codex does that all by default. I just get frustrated when I ask it something simple and it spends half an hour researching code first.
This makes me think that for simple things, we need to anti-prompt — tell the model to not overthink things.
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If anything is depressing, it's the amount of people who think these models actually "can code". Because they can't. Also, Clean Code is a really bad ideology, you should regret wasting time on it regardless of LLM code generation.
You just called yourself out- I don't think most people are aware of a "Clean Code" handbook. I had to google it. When most people think of "clean code", they are not thinking about whatever got you so worked up.
Maybe it’s a sign of the times, but I’m surprised you’ve never come across it. I say this as someone who doesn’t agree with many of the suggestions.
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I had a complete shocker with all of Claude, GitHub Copilot, and ChatGPT when trying to prototype an iOS app in Swift around 12 months ago. They would all really struggle to generate anything usable, and making any progress was incredibly slow due to all the problems I was running into. This was in stark contrast to my experience with TypeScript/NextJS, Python, and C#. Most of the time output quality for these was at…
This is more or less my experience with Go right now. For a bunch of reasons I want to avoid the standard React, Typescript, and Node stack but the sheer velocity that might enable from the LLM side might make it worth it.
Are you saying that your experience with Go has been bad? I would think Go would be as good as any other language (if not better). The language itself is simple, the Go team is very methodical about adding new features so it changes fairly slowly, it has excellent built in CLI based tooling that doesn't require third party packages or applications, and there are plenty of large open source Go codebases to train on. Seems like the perfect language for agentic tools.