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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 imiric »

spaceman_2020 wrote: post #61
njtransit wrote: post #27

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Can you share some examples?

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.

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

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Post by belter »

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

If there are complaints who is going to fix it? :-)

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

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Post by lucianbr »

spaceman_2020 wrote: post #61
njtransit wrote: post #27

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Can you share some examples?

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)

Thank you for sharing these. So many people talk in superlative terms about the stuff they did with AI and give no details. It's very hard to gauge what they actually achieved.

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

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Post by fragmede »

ipaddr wrote: post #51
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).

I asked Claude AI to make me an app and it refused and called it dangerous. I asked what kind of apps they could build and they suggested social media or health. So I asked it to make one but it refused too dangerous. I asked it to make anything.. anything app and it refused. I told it it sucked and it said it didn't. Then I deleted my account. I can't think of a worse llm than Claude.

Tbh this sounds like a skill issue.

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

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Post by an_guy »

spaceman_2020 wrote: post #65
hipadev23 wrote: post #59

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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?

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?

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

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Post by fragmede »

torginus wrote: post #16
Veuxdo wrote: post #9

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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.

high end CAD design software, the kind used to design SpaceX rocket engines, costs tens of thousands of dollars per seat per year.

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

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Post by dmd »

lucianbr wrote: post #67
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

I learned to drive before in-car GPS was widely available, at least where I lived. Going to some new place meant getting a map, looking at it, making a plan, following the plan, keeping track on the map, that sort of thing. Then I traveled somewhere new, for the first time, with GPS and a navigation sofware. It was quite impressive, and rather easier. I got to my destination the first time, without any problems. And…

I was told a similar thing when a mentor discovered I didn’t know how to wire-wrap my own CPU from scratch.

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

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Post by mmmuhd »

spaceman_2020 wrote: post #61
njtransit wrote: post #27

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Can you share some examples?

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)

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

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Post by eastbound »

dmd wrote: post #77
lucianbr wrote: post #67

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I learned to drive before in-car GPS was widely available, at least where I lived. Going to some new place meant getting a map, looking at it, making a plan, following the plan, keeping track on the map, that sort of thing. Then I traveled somewhere new, for the first time, with GPS and a navigation sofware. It was quite impressive, and rather easier. I got to my destination the first time, without any problems. And…

I was told a similar thing when a mentor discovered I didn’t know how to wire-wrap my own CPU from scratch.

AI is much less reliable. Heck, it could go down like GPT went down in quality after the first 2 month: Services could in an instant become less good.

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

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Post by instalabs »

yodsanklai wrote: post #32
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?

You start over from scratch /s(50%)
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