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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: 0.239s | source
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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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MrMcCall ◴[17 Nov 24 15:22 UTC] No.42164624[source]▶
The problem is that you must understand that 95% in order to complete the last 5%.
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negoutputeng ◴[17 Nov 24 15:34 UTC] No.42164697[source]▶
exactly right.

POCs and demos are easy to build by anyone these days. The last 10% is what separates student projects from real products.

any engineer who has spent time in the trenches understands that fixing corner cases in code produced by inexperienced engineers consumes a lot of time.

in fact, poor overall design and lack of diligence tanks entire projects.

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MrMcCall ◴[17 Nov 24 15:42 UTC] No.42164739[source]▶
Sometimes it's not even inexperienced coders -- it's our own dang selves ;-)
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1. SketchySeaBeast ◴[17 Nov 24 20:49 UTC] No.42167099[source]▶
Well, in my mind, the SketchySeaBeast of last week is inexperienced compared to the SketchySeaBeast of this one.