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Re: Claude AI built me a React app to compare maps side by side

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Post by lostemptations5 »

fragmede wrote: post #64
lostemptations5 wrote: post #63

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I'm not saying you're wrong at all or in disbelief -- but I've spent lots of time with Claude 3.5 trying to prototype React apps and not even full fledged prototypes -- and I can't get it to make anything bug free somehow. Maybe I'm "holding it wrong" -- I mean using it incorrectly. True it renders quite interesting mockups and has React code behind it -- but then try and get this into even a demoable state for your…

would you be willing to share any of your chats? Like say the docker one?

That one was for work - but let me try again on an example project and I'll share it sure.

Re: Claude AI built me a React app to compare maps side by side

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Post by spaceman_2020 »

an_guy wrote: post #75
spaceman_2020 wrote: post #65

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Not as much as I would have if I was writing everything from scratch. But then again, my goal isn’t to be a coder or get a job as a coder - I’m primarily a marketer and got into coding simply because I had a stack of ideas I wanted to experiment with Most of the things I’ve built are fun things See: GoUnfaked.com and PlaybookFM.com as examples PlaybookFM.com is interesting because everything from the code to the podc…

How much time did you spend on getting it working especially for playbookfm?

Less than a week, tops. The hard part was the content - curating the resources for creating the podcasts

Re: Claude AI built me a React app to compare maps side by side

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Post by spaceman_2020 »

rlty_chck wrote: post #96
spaceman_2020 wrote: post #25

I have about 6 months of coding experience. All I really knew was how to build a basic MERN app I’ve been using Sonnet 3.5 to code and I’ve managed to build multiple full fledged apps, including paid ones Maybe they’re not perfect, but they work and I’ve had no complaints yet. They might not scale to become the next Facebook, but not everything has to scale

Every time I see claims like this, I instinctively click on the user's profile and try to verify if their story checks out. >I played around a lot with code when I was younger. I built my first site when I was 13 and had a good handle on Javascript back when jQuery was still a pipe dream. >Started with the Codecademy Ruby track which was pretty easy. Working through RailsTutorial right now. posted on April 15, 2015,…

you do know that there are other kinds of freelancing apart from coding, right?

Re: Claude AI built me a React app to compare maps side by side

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Post by spaceman_2020 »

imiric wrote: post #71
spaceman_2020 wrote: post #61

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ThumbnailGenius.com (has a ton of new features I haven’t pushed yet as I wait for approval from a payment processor) MetHacker.io (has a lot of features I had to remove because of X API’s new pricing - see /projects on it) GoUnfaked.com PlaybookFM.com TokenAI.dev (working with blowfish to remove the warning flag)

Good job, I suppose, but the existence of all of these, and the fact you're able to pump them out so quickly, is genuinely depressing.

Why is it depressing? I find it exhilarating

I’m able to bring ideas to life that I could only think about before

Re: Claude AI built me a React app to compare maps side by side

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Post by imiric »

1024core wrote: post #85
imiric wrote: post #71

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Good job, I suppose, but the existence of all of these, and the fact you're able to pump them out so quickly, is genuinely depressing.

There was a time when mathematicians wrote LISP programs and other humans translated them into machine instructions. Then one day someone wrote a LISP program to do this, and had one of the translators translate it. A compiler was born. Think of Claude as a compiler which compiles NLP text instructions into functional code.

I don't mind tools that empower programmers or even less technical people to build products. I use these tools myself in minor ways, even though I find them to be more of a nuisance than actually helpful.

What I find depressing is how quickly someone with minimal experience can flood the web with low quality services, in search for a quick buck. It's like all the SEO spam we've been seeing for decades, but exponentially worse. The web will become even more of a nightmare to navigate than it already is.

Re: Claude AI built me a React app to compare maps side by side

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mgkimsal wrote: post #50
cj wrote: post #19

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When I was in college (10+ years ago) there was a system that allowed you to select your classes. During the selection period, certain people had priority (people a year above you got to select first). Once a class was full, you could still get in if someone who was selected for the classes changed their mind, which (at an unpredictable time) would result in a seat becoming available in that class until another stude…

This sort of thing needs to be built to be in-OS or in-device or whatever term we want to use to signify that the agent has to be me to do it. Scripting a browser that already has my saved credentials to do something for me, running in device, is where more things have to go, vs external third party services where we need to continually handle external auth protocols.

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Re: Claude AI built me a React app to compare maps side by side

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Post by lxgr »

hipadev23 wrote: post #59
spaceman_2020 wrote: post #25

I have about 6 months of coding experience. All I really knew was how to build a basic MERN app I’ve been using Sonnet 3.5 to code and I’ve managed to build multiple full fledged apps, including paid ones Maybe they’re not perfect, but they work and I’ve had no complaints yet. They might not scale to become the next Facebook, but not everything has to scale

Genuine question: Do you feel like you're learning the language/frameworks/techniques well? Or do you feel like you're just getting more adept at leveraging the LLM? Do you think you could you maintain and/or debug someone else's application?

There are so many frameworks, especially on the web and in Javascript, that I have absolutely zero interest in learning.

In fact, my main reason for not doing any web development is that I find the amount of layers of abstraction and needless complexity for something that should really be simple quite deterring.

I'm sure e.g. React and GraphQL allow people to think about web apps in really elegant and scalable ways, but the learning curve is just way more than I can justify for a side project or a one-off thing at work that will never have more than two or three users opening it once every few months.

Re: Claude AI built me a React app to compare maps side by side

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Post by spaceman_2020 »

tchock23 wrote: post #82
spaceman_2020 wrote: post #61

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ThumbnailGenius.com (has a ton of new features I haven’t pushed yet as I wait for approval from a payment processor) MetHacker.io (has a lot of features I had to remove because of X API’s new pricing - see /projects on it) GoUnfaked.com PlaybookFM.com TokenAI.dev (working with blowfish to remove the warning flag)

Are you sharing your process anywhere (like on YouTube)? I’d be really curious to see behind the scenes of how you’re building these types of products. For example, are you just using Claude or Claude with Cursor (or something else)?

I think I should create a video showing it

Usually its v0.dev for the basic UI and then just prompting cursor

Re: Claude AI built me a React app to compare maps side by side

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Post by lxgr »

quantum_state wrote: post #97
poslathian wrote: post #87

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We’ll see what the future holds but as an old timer, using LLMs to creat applications seems exactly the same as: Python/JS and their ecosystem replacing OS hosted C/C++ which replaced bare metal Assembly which replaced digital logic which replaced analog circuits which replaced mechanical design as the “standard goto tool” for how to create programs. Starting with punchcard looms and Ada Lovelace maybe. In every case…

Well said .. Hope the pile of complexity accumulated would not be a time bomb ...

To be fair, that ship has sailed years ago in many areas of programming, even without LLMs...

Re: Claude AI built me a React app to compare maps side by side

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Post by Sakos »

lxgr wrote: post #100
thefourthchime wrote: post #93

For years I've kept a list of apps / ideas / products I may do someday. I never made the time, with Cursor AI I have already built one, and am working on another. It's enabling me to use frameworks I barely know, like React Native, Swift, etc.. The first prompt (with o1) will get you 60% there, but then you have a different workflow. The prompts can get to a local minimum, where claude/gpt4/etc.. just can't do any be…

> For years I've kept a list of apps / ideas / products I may do someday. I never made the time, with Cursor AI I have already built one, and am working on another. This is one fact that people seem to severely under-appreciate about LLMs. They're significantly worse at coding in many aspects than even a moderately skilled and motivated intern, but for my hobby projects, until now I haven't had any intern that would…

It also reduces the knowledge needed. I don't particularly care about learning how to setup and configure a web extension from scratch. With LLM, I can get 90% of that working in minutes, then focus on the parts that I am interested in. As somebody with ADHD, it was primarily all that supplementary, tangential knowledge which felt like an insurmountable mountain to me and made it impossible to actually try all the ideas I'd had over the years. I'm so much more productive now that I don't have to always get into the weeds for every little thing, which could easily delay progress for hours or even days. I can pick and choose the parts I feel are important to me.
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