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Claude Code Unpacked : A visual guide

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Re: Claude Code Unpacked : A visual guide

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post #38

I guess they really do eat their own dogfood and vibe code their way through it without care for technical debt? In a way, it’s a good challenge, but it’s fairly painful to watch the current state of the project (which is about a year old now, so it should be in prime shape).

> is about a year old now, so it should be in prime shape A 1yo project may be in good shape if written by just one dev, maybe a few. But if you have many devs, I can guarantee it will be messy and buggy. If anything, at 1yo it is probably still full of bugs because not enough time has elapsed for people to run into them.

It's only 510k LoC, at ~100 lines of code a day for a year, this code base would take 23 engineers a year to write. That's for 220 working days in somewhere civilized.

And I'm sure we all know that when working on a greenfield project you can produce a lot more LoC per day than maintaining a legacy one.

Given that vibe code is significantly more verbose, you're probably talking about ~15 engineers worth of code?

I know that's all silly numbers, but this is just attempting to give people some context here, this isn't a massive code base. I've not read a lot of it, so maybe it's better than the verbose code I see Claude put out sometimes.

Re: Claude Code Unpacked : A visual guide

#62
post #51

If it was 2020, it would be hard to imagine that after some hours/days you getting a visual representation of the leak with such detailed stats lol

How was this generated ? I'm quite sure "with ai/claude code" but what are the actual steps ?

For the animations specifically, it's using Motion (fka Framer Motion) Javascript library. If you describe some animations from the site to an LLM and ask it to use Framer motion, you get very similar results. The creator likely just prompted for a while until they were happy with the outcome.

Re: Claude Code Unpacked : A visual guide

#65

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yes but my point was that they seem to explicitly not care about code quality and/or the insane amount of bloat, and seem to just want the LLM to be able to deal with it.

I've heard somewhere that they have roughly 100% code churn every few months, so yes, they unfortunately don't care about code quality. It's a shame, because it's still the best coding agent, in my experience.

Yes, but as I said, it’s in a way the ultimate form of dogfooding: ideally they’ll be able to get the LLM smart enough to keep the codebase working well long-term.

Now whether that’s actually possible is a second topic.

Re: Claude Code Unpacked : A visual guide

#67
post #31

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Please don’t use AI to write comments on HN.

huh?

You edited your comment. It very much first said something about using regexes as being the most important takeaway and whatnot.

Re: Claude Code Unpacked : A visual guide

#69
post #11

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Also it's just randomly incorrect in places. For instance, it lists "fox" as one of the "Buddy" species, but that's not in the code.

That's been corrected, I did another fact checking pass!

Another? Why weren't all the facts checked on the first pass?
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