does that count as self-hosting?
Claude Code creator says Claude wrote all his code for the last month
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Re: Claude Code creator says Claude wrote all his code for the last month
#42Earlier quoted context omitted.
Because companies/users don’t pay for “great code”. They pay for results. Does it work? How fast can we get it? How much does it cost to use it?
> Because companies/users don’t pay for “great code” Unless you work in an industry with standards, like medical or automotive. Setting ISO compliance aside, you could also work for a company which values long term maintainability, uptime etc. I'm glad I do. Not everyone is stuck writing disposable web apps.
Or space, or defense, or some corners of finance and insurance.
> Not everyone is stuck writing disposable web apps.
Exactly. What I've noticed is that the a lot of the conversations on HNs is web devs talking to engineers and one side understands boths sides, and other one doesn't.
Re: Claude Code creator says Claude wrote all his code for the last month
#43I wonder how. Everything I let claude code majorly write, whether Go, F#, C or Python, I end up eventually at a point where I systematically rip it apart and start writing it over. In my study days, we talked of “spikes”. Software or components which functionally addressed some need, but often was badly written and architected. That’s what I think most resembles claude code output. And I ask the llm to write todo-lis…
Because companies/users don’t pay for “great code”. They pay for results. Does it work? How fast can we get it? How much does it cost to use it?
yes, but to achieve those, one often needs great code
Re: Claude Code creator says Claude wrote all his code for the last month
#44I’m one of those people. Used Claude Code until September then Codex exclusively. All my code has been AI generated, nothing by hand. I review the code and if I don’t like something- I let it know how it should be changed. Used to be a lot of back and forth in August, but these days GPT 5.2 Codex one shots everything so far. It worked for 40 hours for me one time to get a big thing in place and I’m happy with the cod…
How long did it take for you to get used to this workflow?
Re: Claude Code creator says Claude wrote all his code for the last month
#45I’m one of those people. Used Claude Code until September then Codex exclusively. All my code has been AI generated, nothing by hand. I review the code and if I don’t like something- I let it know how it should be changed. Used to be a lot of back and forth in August, but these days GPT 5.2 Codex one shots everything so far. It worked for 40 hours for me one time to get a big thing in place and I’m happy with the cod…
Glad to hear. For me, the process does not converge — once code gets big enough (it happens fast, claude hates using existing code and writes duplicate logic every oportunity it gets) it starts dealing more damage every turn. At some point, no forward progress happens, because claude keeps dismantling and breaking existing working code.
Re: Claude Code creator says Claude wrote all his code for the last month
#46Earlier quoted context omitted.
Precisely. AI optimizes for "Accuracy" (minimizing error), but it cannot optimize for "Taste" because Taste is not a variable in its loss function. As code becomes abundant and cheap, "Aesthetics" and "Gestalt" will become the only scarcity left. The Architect's job is not to build, but to choose what is beautiful.
I use the house analogy a lot these days. A colleague vibe-coded an app and it does what it is supposed to, but the code really is an unmaintainable hodgepodge of files. I compare this to a house that looks functional on the surface, but has the toilet in the middle of the living room, an unsafe electrical system, water leaks, etc. I am afraid only the facade of the house will need to be beautiful, only to realize th…
I've been a loan officer for 20 years.
To extend your analogy: AI is effectively mass-producing 'Subprime Housing'. It has amazing curb appeal (glittering paint), but as a banker, I'd rate this as a 'Toxic Asset' with zero collateral value.
The scary part is that the 'interest rate' on this technical debt is variable. Eventually, it becomes cheaper to declare bankruptcy (rewrite from scratch) than to pay off the renovation costs.
Re: Claude Code creator says Claude wrote all his code for the last month
#47Earlier quoted context omitted.
Because companies/users don’t pay for “great code”. They pay for results. Does it work? How fast can we get it? How much does it cost to use it?
> Because companies/users don’t pay for “great code” Unless you work in an industry with standards, like medical or automotive. Setting ISO compliance aside, you could also work for a company which values long term maintainability, uptime etc. I'm glad I do. Not everyone is stuck writing disposable web apps.
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Re: Claude Code creator says Claude wrote all his code for the last month
#48Earlier quoted context omitted.
Because companies/users don’t pay for “great code”. They pay for results. Does it work? How fast can we get it? How much does it cost to use it?
> Because companies/users don’t pay for “great code” Unless you work in an industry with standards, like medical or automotive. Setting ISO compliance aside, you could also work for a company which values long term maintainability, uptime etc. I'm glad I do. Not everyone is stuck writing disposable web apps.
"Does it work?" covers what you said.
Re: Claude Code creator says Claude wrote all his code for the last month
#49Re: Claude Code creator says Claude wrote all his code for the last month
#50The guy who write the typescript/bun cli and probably maintains that?
It would be helpful if people also included what kind of code they are writing (language, domain, module, purpose, etc)
The hallucinations are still there, sometimes worse than others but manageable. This is mostly when I have to do some database management style work. This is off the beaten path and hallucinations are crazy.