I've found it really valuable to pair with people, sit at a computer together while they're driving and using AI. It's really interesting to see how other people prompt & use AI to explore the problem.
Ask HN: Why is my Claude experience so bad? What am I doing wrong?
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#12Claude is a programming assistant not a programmer.
You still need knowledge of what you are building so you can drive it, guide it, fix things.
This is the core of the question about LLM assisted programming - what happens when non programmers use it?
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#13it's a tool, not an oracle. you build with it, you aren't its customer, you're its wielder.
for now, anyway.
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#14could you share an md of your prompts? I find with those tools I still have to break the problem down into verifiable pieces, and only move on to the next step once the previous steps are as expected.
syntax error is nothing, I just paste the error into the tui and it fixes it usually.
Re: Ask HN: Why is my Claude experience so bad? What am I doing wrong?
#15Add https://github.com/obra/superpowers
and then try again.
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#16Try this:
* have Claude produce wireframes of the screens you want. Iterate on those and save them as images.
* then develop. Make sure Claude has the ability to run the app, interact with controls, and take screenshots.
* loop autonomously until the app looks like the wireframes.
Feedback loops are required. Only very simple problems get one-shot.
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#17You need to be very specific about what to build and how to build it, what tools to use, what architecture it should do, what libraries, frameworks it should include. You need to be a programmer to be able to do this properly and it still takes a lot of practice to get it right.
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#18skill issue
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#19Can you give some history of what you did? We can't answer "what am I doing wrong?" if you don't tell us… what you did.
Re: Ask HN: Why is my Claude experience so bad? What am I doing wrong?
#20Try this: * have Claude produce wireframes of the screens you want. Iterate on those and save them as images. * then develop. Make sure Claude has the ability to run the app, interact with controls, and take screenshots. * loop autonomously until the app looks like the wireframes. Feedback loops are required. Only very simple problems get one-shot.
hmm but wouldn't that rapidly spend my tokens?