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Not always the case. It’ll just go and “fix” the tests to pass instead of fixing the core issue.
That used to happen a whole lot more. Recent Claudes (3.7, 4) are less likely to do that in my experience. If they DO do that, it's on us to tell them to undo that and fix things properly.
There must at this point be lots and lots of actual walkthroughs of people coding using Claude Code, or whatever, and producing real world apps or libraries with them right? Would be neat to have a list because this is what I want to read (or watch), rather than people just continuously telling me all this is amazing but not showing me it’s amazing.
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It’s telling that they didn’t specifically address it at the negative experience and you filled that in yourself
It was the comment they replied to. If it was a general critique of the state of discourse around agentic tools and Claude Code in particular why not make it a top level comment?
Sometimes, you'll just have a really productive session with Claude Code doing a specific thing that maybe you need to do a lot of. One trick I have gotten some milage out of was this: have Claude Code research Slash commands, then make a slash command to turn the previous conversation into a slash command. That was cool and great! But then, of course you inevitably will interrupt it and need to do stuff to correct i…
I find amazing all the effort that people put trying to program a non deterministic black box. True courage.
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do you create the claude.md files at several levels of your folder structure, so you can teach it how to do different things? Configuring these default system prompts is required to get it to work well. I'd definitely watch Boris's intro video below [1] [1] Boris introduction: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6eBSHbLKuN0 [2] summary of above video: https://www.nibzard.com/claude-code/
By the time you do all of that you might as well just write code by hand.
Yes, I would write a 4 line bash script by myself.
But if you're trading a 200 line comprehensive claude.md document for a module that might be 20k LoC? it's a different value proposition.
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Sigh. As others have commented, over and over again in the last 6 months we've seen discussions on HN with the same basic variation of "Claude Code [or whatever] is amazing" with a reply along the lines of "It doesn't work for me, it just creates a bunch of slop in my codebase." I sympathize with both experiences and have had both. But I think we've reached the point where such posts (both positive and negative) are…
It's telling that you ask these details from a comment describing a negative experience, yet the top-most comment full of praises and hyperbole is accepted at face value. Let's either demand these things from both sides or from neither. Just because your experience matches one side, doesn't mean that experiences different from yours should require a higher degree of scrutiny. I actually think it's more productive to…
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The people that are happy with it and praising the avenues offered by LLM/AI solutions are creating codebases that fulfill their requirements, whatever those might be.
The people that seem to be unhappy with it tend to have the universal complaints of either "it produces garbage" , or "I'm slower with it.".
Maybe i'm showing my age here, but I remember these same exact discussions between people that either praised or disparaged search engines. The alternative being an internet Yellowpages (which was a thing for many years.)
The ones that praised it tended to be people who were taught or otherwise figured out how to use metadata tags like date:/onsite: , whereas the ones that disparaged it tended to be the folks who would search for things like "who won the game" and then proceed to click every scam/porno link on this green Earth and then blame Google/gdg/lycos/whatever when they were exposed to whatever they clicked.
in other words : proof is kind of in the pudding.
I wouldn't care about the compiler logs from a user that ignored all syntax and grammar rules of a language after picking it up last week, either -- but it's useful for successful devs to share their experiences both good and bad.
I care more about the opinions of those that know the rules of the game -- let the actual teams behind these software deal with the user testing and feedback from people that don't want to learn conventions.
Anyone using it for game dev? Like just having the agent try to build a game?