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

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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.

Nobody’s forcing you to use someone else’s service though.

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

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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)

Are you sharing your process anywhere (like on YouTube)? I’d be really curious to see behind the scenes of how you’re building these types of products. For example, are you just using Claude or Claude with Cursor (or something else)?

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

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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.

Nobody’s forcing you to use someone else’s service though.

they are if that's the only way you know how to create something

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

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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 ch…

Note the section you’re in at that doc link: “Claude for Work (Team & Enterprise Plans) -> Team & Enterprise Plan Features -> Project visibility and sharing”

Huh, did they remove it from the normal subscription then? I've never had a team & enterprise plan.

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

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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.

There was a time when mathematicians wrote LISP programs and other humans translated them into machine instructions. Then one day someone wrote a LISP program to do this, and had one of the translators translate it.

A compiler was born.

Think of Claude as a compiler which compiles NLP text instructions into functional code.

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

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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.

Could you please explain why? I'm trying to think how is it depressing and can't come up with anything.

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

We’ll see what the future holds but as an old timer, using LLMs to creat applications seems exactly the same as:

Python/JS and their ecosystem replacing OS hosted C/C++ which replaced bare metal Assembly which replaced digital logic which replaced analog circuits which replaced mechanical design as the “standard goto tool” for how to create programs.

Starting with punchcard looms and Ada Lovelace maybe.

In every case we trade resource efficiency and lower level understanding for developer velocity and raise the upper bound on system complexity, capability, and somehow performance (despite the wasted efficiency).

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'm not saying you're wrong at all or in disbelief -- but I've spent lots of time with Claude 3.5 trying to prototype React apps and not even full fledged prototypes -- and I can't get it to make anything bug free somehow. Maybe I'm "holding it wrong" -- I mean using it incorrectly. True it renders quite interesting mockups and has React code behind it -- but then try and get this into even a demoable state for your…

Agreed. LLMs can give you ideas on how to get there, but you still need foundational knowledge of the language or framework to extend the code it generates.

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

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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.

Could you please explain why? I'm trying to think how is it depressing and can't come up with anything.

Because we don’t believe it’s equal quality to our job, so we see cheap competition arriving with swathes of bad products, but no way for customers to distinguish what makes quality. Plus we all create bugs anyway.

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

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I used Claude (and a bit of ChatGPT) to write a multi-pass recursive descent parser for a search query DSL:

https://github.com/williamcotton/search-input-query

Why multi-pass? So multiple semantic errors can be reported at once to the user!

The most important factor here is that I've written lexers and parsers beforehand. I was very detailed in my instructions and put it together piece-by-piece. It took probably 100 or so different chats.

Try it out with the GUI you see in the gif in the README:

  git clone git@github.com:williamcotton/search-input-query.git
  cd search-input-query/search-input-query-demo
  npm install
  npm run dev
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