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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

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I'm sure it's unrelated(right guys? right?) but they had to revert a big update to CC this month. https://x.com/trq212/status/2001848726395269619

Not sure why you are getting downvoted, but this IS the key worry: That people lose contact with the code and really don’t understand what is going on, increasing “errors” in production (for some definition of error), that result in much more production firefighting that, then, reduce the amount of time to write code.

Re: Claude Code creator says Claude wrote all his code for the last month

#12

honestly i've been becoming too lazy, I know exactly what I want and AI is at a point where it can turn that into code. It's good enough to a point where I start to design code around AI where it's easier for AI to understand (less DRY, less abtractions, closer to C) And it's probably a bad thing? Not sure yet.

I just let myself use AI on non-critical software. Personal projects and projects without deadline or high quality standards.

If it uses anything I don't know, some tech I hadn't grasped yet, I do a markdown conversation summary and make sure to include technical solutions overview. I then shove that into note software for later and, at a convenient time, use that in study mode to make sure I understand implications of whatever AI chose. I'm mostly a backend developer and this has been a great html+css primer for me.

Re: Claude Code creator says Claude wrote all his code for the last month

#14

I'm sure it's unrelated(right guys? right?) but they had to revert a big update to CC this month. https://x.com/trq212/status/2001848726395269619

Not sure why you are getting downvoted, but this IS the key worry: That people lose contact with the code and really don’t understand what is going on, increasing “errors” in production (for some definition of error), that result in much more production firefighting that, then, reduce the amount of time to write code.

> Not sure why you are getting downvoted

A: The comment is bad for business.

Re: Claude Code creator says Claude wrote all his code for the last month

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post #9

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Is a human engineer not the same way?

No. LLMs can only reorder what they've seen in training data in novel ways. Humans can have original ideas that aren't in their training data. As a trivial example, John Carmack invented raycasting for Wolfenstein 3D. No matter how much prompting you could have given an LLM it could never have done that because there was no prior art for it to have been trained on. In pragmatic terms though, innovation like that does…

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Re: Claude Code creator says Claude wrote all his code for the last month

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"If the AI builds the house, the human must become the Architect who understands why the house exists."

In Japanese traditional carpentry (Miya-daiku), the master doesn't just cut wood. He reads the "heart of the tree" and decides the orientation based on the environment.

The author just proved that "cutting wood" (coding) is now automated. This is not the end of engineers, but the beginning of the "Age of Architects."

We must stop competing on syntax speed and start competing on Vision and Context.

Re: Claude Code creator says Claude wrote all his code for the last month

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> I landed 259 PRs -- 497 commits, 40k lines added, 38k lines removed

I wonder how much of these 40k lines added/38k lines removed were just replacing the complete code of a previous PR created by Claude Code.

I'm happy that it's working for them (whatever that means), but shouldn't we see an exponential improvement in Claude Code in this case?

Re: Claude Code creator says Claude wrote all his code for the last month

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post #8

Cool, the person who financially benefits from hyping AI is hyping AI. What's with the ad here though?

The tweet from Dec 24 was interesting, why is Boris only now deciding to engage?

I refuse to believe real AI conversations of any value are happening on X.

Hi I'm Boris and I work on Claude Code. I am going to start being more active here on X, since there are a lot of AI and coding related convos happening here.

https://xcancel.com/bcherny/status/2003916001851686951

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