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

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221 points caspg | 2 comments | 17 Nov 24 13:39 UTC | HN request time: 0.001s | source
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spaceman_2020 ◴[17 Nov 24 15:31 UTC] No.42164682[source]▶
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

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njtransit ◴[17 Nov 24 15:33 UTC] No.42164691[source]▶
Can you share some examples?
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spaceman_2020 ◴[17 Nov 24 16:23 UTC] No.42164994[source]▶
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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imiric ◴[17 Nov 24 16:36 UTC] No.42165072[source]▶
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.
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1. 1024core ◴[17 Nov 24 17:16 UTC] No.42165369[source]▶
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.

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2. imiric ◴[17 Nov 24 17:46 UTC] No.42165580[source]▶
I don't mind tools that empower programmers or even less technical people to build products. I use these tools myself in minor ways, even though I find them to be more of a nuisance than actually helpful.

What I find depressing is how quickly someone with minimal experience can flood the web with low quality services, in search for a quick buck. It's like all the SEO spam we've been seeing for decades, but exponentially worse. The web will become even more of a nightmare to navigate than it already is.