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

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> and no, a $5,000 MacBook Pro is not attainable In many professions, $5000 for tools is almost nothing.

Yeah, but those tools don't get obsoleted in 3 years.

You're pretty lucky if the specialised tools for your profession cost Regardless the reasons, any tooling in the ~$5,000/~3 year ballpark is not at all a high or unique number for a profession.

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

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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.

We’ve been hitting this in our work and in experimentation, and I can confirm that Claude sonnet 3.5 has gotten 100% of the way there, including working through errors and tricky problems as we tested the apps it built.

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

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I wish Claude let you share conversations more easily, I’d be curious to see how this one went and what follow on questions you had

huh? there should be a button on the top right to generate a share link in any conversation? is that really too hard?

its even documented on their site

https://support.anthropic.com/en/articles/9519189-project-vi...

    Click the "Share" button in the upper right corner of your chat.

    Click the "Share & Copy Link" button to create a shareable link and add the chat snapshot to your project’s activity feed.

/edit: i just checked. i think they had a regression? or at least i cannot see the button anymore. go figure. must be pretty recently, as i shared a chat just ~2-3 weeks ago

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

I think the front end is the most interesting place right now, because it’s where people are making stuff for themselves with the help of LLMs.

The browser is a great place to build voice chat, 3d, almost any other experience. I expect a renewed interest in granting fuller capabilities to the web, especially background processing and network access.

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

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?

What's the point of this question?

Everybody ships nasty bugs in production that he himself might find impossible to debug, everybody.

Thus he will do the very same thing me, you or anybody else on this planet do, find a second pair of eyes, virtually or not, paying or not.

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

#46

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?

What I see is people using llm to make a new app without the bug

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

#47

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?

What does anyone do if they have a bug they don't know how to fix?

Find a way to work around it.

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

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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.

WebAssembly sandboxes might become handy.

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

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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?

What's the point of this question? Everybody ships nasty bugs in production that he himself might find impossible to debug, everybody. Thus he will do the very same thing me, you or anybody else on this planet do, find a second pair of eyes, virtually or not, paying or not.

> Everybody ships nasty bugs in production that he himself might find impossible to debug, everybody.

No.

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

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> 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…

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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