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

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221 points caspg | 1 comments | 17 Nov 24 13:39 UTC | HN request time: 0.208s | source
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thefourthchime ◴[17 Nov 24 17:28 UTC] No.42165457[source]▶
For years I've kept a list of apps / ideas / products I may do someday. I never made the time, with Cursor AI I have already built one, and am working on another. It's enabling me to use frameworks I barely know, like React Native, Swift, etc..

The first prompt (with o1) will get you 60% there, but then you have a different workflow. The prompts can get to a local minimum, where claude/gpt4/etc.. just can't do any better. At which point you need to climb back out and try a different approach.

I recommend git branches to keep track of this. Keep a good working copy in main, and anytime you want to add a feature, make a branch. If you get it almost there, make another branch in case it goes sideways. The biggest issue with developing like this is that you are not a coder anymore; you are a puppet master of a very smart and sometimes totally confused brain.

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1. jajko ◴[17 Nov 24 19:09 UTC] No.42166210[source]▶
That's literally going through the dark maze blindfolded, just bouncing off the walls randomly and hoping you are generally at least moving to your goal.

If software engineering should look like this, oh boy am I happy to be retiring in mere 17 years (fingers crossed) and not having to spend more time in such work. No way any quality complex code can come up from such approach, and people complain about quality of software now .