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

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

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Post by zamadatix »

jckahn wrote: post #8

This sort of thing will be interesting to me once it can be done with fully local and open source tech on attainable hardware (and no, a $5,000 MacBook Pro is not attainable). Building a dependence on yet another untrustworthy AI startup that will inevitably enshittify isn’t compelling despite what the tech can do. We’re getting there with some of the smaller open source models, but we’re not quite there yet. I’m loo…

The nice thing is it doesn't really matter all too much which you use "today", you can take the same inputs to any and the outputs remain complete forever. If the concern is you'll start using these tools, like them, start using them a lot, then are worried suddenly all hosted options to run a query disappear tomorrow (meaning being able to run local is important to you) then Qwen2.5-Coder 32B with a 4 bit quant will run 30+ tokens/second will give you many years of use for If you want to pay that <$1k up front to just say "it was always just on my machine, nobody elses" then more power to you. Most just prefer this "pay as you go for someone else to have set it up" model. That doesn't imply it's unattainable if you want to run it differently though.

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

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Post by yodsanklai »

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

What do you do if your app has a bug that your LLM isn't able to fix? is your coding experience enough to fix it, or do you ship with bugs hoping customers won't mind?

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

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Post by phony-account »

jckahn wrote: post #8

This sort of thing will be interesting to me once it can be done with fully local and open source tech on attainable hardware (and no, a $5,000 MacBook Pro is not attainable). Building a dependence on yet another untrustworthy AI startup that will inevitably enshittify isn’t compelling despite what the tech can do. We’re getting there with some of the smaller open source models, but we’re not quite there yet. I’m loo…

> (and no, a $5,000 MacBook Pro is not attainable)

I know we all love dunking on how expensive Apple computers are, but for $5000 you would be getting a Mac Mini maxed-out with an M4 Pro chip with 14‑core CPU, 20‑core GPU, 16-core Neural Engine, 64GB unified RAM memory, an 8TB SSD and 10 Gigabit Ethernet.

M4 MacBook Pros start at $1599.

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

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Post by [deleted] »

cj wrote: post #19
swatcoder wrote: post #12

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> 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…

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…

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

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Post by MrMcCall »

negoutputeng wrote: post #28
MrMcCall wrote: post #17

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

Sometimes it's not even inexperienced coders -- it's our own dang selves ;-)

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

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Post by Omnipresent »

caspg wrote: post #4
truckerbill wrote: post #3

Cool! Did you just prompt -> copy -> paste or did you come up with some specific workflow?

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…

are you able to share the link to your prompts / conversation?

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

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Post by microtonal »

mmsc wrote: post #22
croes wrote: post #18

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

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

The best vulnerability is one that is hard to detect because it looks like a bug. It's not inconceivable to train an LLM to silently slip vulnerabilities in generated code. Someone who does not have a whole lot of programming experience is unlikely to detect it.

tl;dr it takes running untrusted code to a new level.

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

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Post by ericskiff »

MrMcCall wrote: post #17
caspg wrote: 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%.

Interestingly, I’m pretty sure they mean they hit the limit with tokens on Claude.

There’s a daily 2.5 million token limit that you can use up fairly quickly with 100K context

So they may very well have completed the whole program with Claude. It’s just the machine literally stopped and the human had to do the final grunt work.

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

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Post by EcommerceFlow »

Been using LLMs since got3 beta in June 2021 and it’s interesting to see how my use cases have continuously been upgraded as models advanced.

Started off with having it create funny random stories, to slowly creating more and more advanced programs.

It’s shocking how good 3.5 Sonnet is at coding, considering the size of the model.

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