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Actual title: I had Claude code up a diff tool in Rust over the weekend My guess is this made it to the front page solely from the Rust boost.
> I had Claude code up What's the difference?
I like how it looks. But the terminal already has excellent diff and commit tools.
Why would you choose to have the ai use a language you don't understand? Isn't this basically admitting you had nothing to do with this project and anyone else could pay an ai to make the same thing easily? Is this something you expect other people to use? Are you planning to maintain this? Are you making a point about ai capabilities? Is this just a joke? I guess I don't really understand the point of posts like thi…
No. They had nothing to do with the code. The project is not only the code.
> and anyone else could pay an ai to make the same thing easily?
This assumes that the difficult part is typing code, but in reality the most difficult part is to know what to build, specify it, evaluate and iterate on it.
If it were truly as easy as asking an AI once, then everyone would already be shipping successful products daily.
AI just lowers the bar to entry.
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> I had Claude code up What's the difference?
You don't know the difference between "I painted a picture" and "I asked Samantha to paint this picture"?
How is this different than X company saying we build Y, when they literally paid people to do it for them?
Why would you choose to have the ai use a language you don't understand? Isn't this basically admitting you had nothing to do with this project and anyone else could pay an ai to make the same thing easily? Is this something you expect other people to use? Are you planning to maintain this? Are you making a point about ai capabilities? Is this just a joke? I guess I don't really understand the point of posts like thi…
> Isn't this basically admitting you had nothing to do with this project No. They had nothing to do with the code. The project is not only the code. > and anyone else could pay an ai to make the same thing easily? This assumes that the difficult part is typing code, but in reality the most difficult part is to know what to build, specify it, evaluate and iterate on it. If it were truly as easy as asking an AI once, t…
I could not agree more! I think there's a finite group of people who have a strong software engineering background who really know the rewarding pain and are able to embrace AI in an optimistic way.
Forced dark theme -- please don't punish me for having astigmatism--can't do dark mode
What might you build when you let Claude take care of commits? :-)
bro rly could have just made a custom nvim setup
Also it's just quite fun.
The primary value of IDEs in the agentic era are: debugging, code review (with good diffing), and management of the agent’s context. I also use mine for browsing databases, but not everyone does that. You seem to have one of those three. I’m not sure what your coding background is, but debuggers/profilers are incredibly useful and important, and it’s essentially malpractice for a developer never to use them.
>but debuggers/profilers are incredibly useful and important, and it’s essentially malpractice for a developer never to use them. Just wait for the moment you need to write code for an embedded platform that doesn't have a debugging mechanism. I've been programming for more than 30 years. Funnily, I used to use debuggers A LOT (in Borland Turbo C++ DOS "IDE" times, Visual Basic, Eclipse, Netbeans, Adobe Flash Builder…