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

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221 points caspg | 6 comments | 17 Nov 24 13:39 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source | bottom
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caspg ◴[17 Nov 24 13:39 UTC] No.42164142[source]▶
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).

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1. ipaddr ◴[17 Nov 24 15:54 UTC] No.42164812[source]▶
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.

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2. fragmede ◴[17 Nov 24 16:41 UTC] No.42165091[source]▶
Tbh this sounds like a skill issue.
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3. 7thpower ◴[17 Nov 24 18:46 UTC] No.42166008[source]▶
There have been rumors of the system prompt changing for some services if the user had strikes on their account from earlier conversations. I wonder if you were impacted by this because what you described has not been my experience nor have I seen it discussed previously.
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4. ipaddr ◴[17 Nov 24 23:14 UTC] No.42168210[source]▶
I signed up two weeks ago after a hackernews story. I wanted to see quality vs OpenAI. Completely new users first prompt.
5. ipaddr ◴[17 Nov 24 23:27 UTC] No.42168282[source]▶
I'm having great success with OpenAI, local llms. I've created semi popular open source project that uses complex prompts to create specialized crms from just a few words.

If ClaudeAI can't create something from my prompts or their own suggestions that's on Claude. Maybe it was my new account on that day at that time. There was a 10 response limit too which made it unworth it to even bother with.

First account I ever actually deleted instead of just never going back. It was that bad.

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6. fragmede ◴[18 Nov 24 01:21 UTC] No.42168873{3}[source]▶
Oh I didn't realize ChatGPT was working for you while Claude was not. It's just interesting because my experience is that claude is better at coding than ChatGPT-4o.