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

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I used Claude AI project to attach requirement for the project. Then I just went with single conversation. I specified that I want to do it in small steps and then was just doing copy -> paste until I reached the limit. I think it was because I was doing one big convo instead attaching code to the project. So pretty simple flow, totally not scalable for bigger projects. I need to read and check Cursor AI which can al…

I wish I could try out Cursor, but I cannot due to this bug: https://github.com/getcursor/cursor/issues/598

Have you tried a different IP address?

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

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Claude built me a simple react app AND rendered it in it's own UI - including using imports and stuff. I am looking forward to this type of real time app creation being added into our OSs, browsers, phones and glasses.

That will be a whole new level of malware attack angle.

Can you expand on what you mean by this, and why?

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

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Claude built me a simple react app AND rendered it in it's own UI - including using imports and stuff. I am looking forward to this type of real time app creation being added into our OSs, browsers, phones and glasses.

> I am looking forward to this type of real time app creation being added into our OSs, browsers, phones and glasses. What do you see that being used for? Surely, polished apps written for others are going to be best built in professional tools that live independently of whatever the OS might offer. So I assume you're talking about quick little scratch apps for personal use? Like an AI-enriched version of Apple's Aut…

Hard to say as someone with the power.

Ask a bird what flying is good for and their answer will be encumbered by reality.

Kind of the opposite of “everything looks like a nail”.

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

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post #5

Claude built me a simple react app AND rendered it in it's own UI - including using imports and stuff. I am looking forward to this type of real time app creation being added into our OSs, browsers, phones and glasses.

> I am looking forward to this type of real time app creation being added into our OSs, browsers, phones and glasses. What do you see that being used for? Surely, polished apps written for others are going to be best built in professional tools that live independently of whatever the OS might offer. So I assume you're talking about quick little scratch apps for personal use? Like an AI-enriched version of Apple's Aut…

There's no shortage of applications, both desktop and mobile, that never really stray outside of the default toolkits. Line of business apps, for instance, don't need the polish that apps targeting consumers need. They just need to effectively manipulate data.

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

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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

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

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post #18
post #5

Claude built me a simple react app AND rendered it in it's own UI - including using imports and stuff. I am looking forward to this type of real time app creation being added into our OSs, browsers, phones and glasses.

That will be a whole new level of malware attack angle.

Every new tech is a new attack surface.

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

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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

Can you share some examples?

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

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I wanted to develop a simple tool to compare maps. I thought about using this opportunity to try out Claude AI for coding a project from scratch. It worked surprisingly well! At least 95% of the code was generated by AI (I reached the limit so had to add final bits on my own).

The problem is that you must understand that 95% in order to complete the last 5%.

exactly right.

POCs and demos are easy to build by anyone these days. The last 10% is what separates student projects from real products.

any engineer who has spent time in the trenches understands that fixing corner cases in code produced by inexperienced engineers consumes a lot of time.

in fact, poor overall design and lack of diligence tanks entire projects.

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

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post #2

I wanted to develop a simple tool to compare maps. I thought about using this opportunity to try out Claude AI for coding a project from scratch. It worked surprisingly well! At least 95% of the code was generated by AI (I reached the limit so had to add final bits on my own).

The problem is that you must understand that 95% in order to complete the last 5%.

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

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

I wish I could try out Cursor, but I cannot due to this bug: https://github.com/getcursor/cursor/issues/598

Have you tried a different IP address?

I have not, I am using my residential/home IP address though and I can access https://api2.cursor.sh/.
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