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Building a Mac app with Claude code

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165 points gdudeman | 2 comments | 06 Jul 25 14:55 UTC | HN request time: 0.013s | source
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amelius ◴[06 Jul 25 15:57 UTC] No.44481831[source]▶
> I've been building software for the Mac since 2008

Ok, so they knew where Claude went wrong and could correct for it.

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simonw ◴[06 Jul 25 16:04 UTC] No.44481884[source]▶
Right: tools like Claude Code amplify existing skills and expertise, they don't replace it.
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risyachka ◴[06 Jul 25 16:23 UTC] No.44482030[source]▶
The main issue here is you can’t acquire expertise by using llm to code for you.

So unless you have 15+ yoe better add more reps. You can always switch to llm code assist in a blink, there is no barrier to entry at all.

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nojito ◴[06 Jul 25 17:03 UTC] No.44482329[source]▶
>The main issue here is you can’t acquire expertise by using llm to code for you.

You learn far far faster from reading code and writing tests than you do just writing code alone.

I've long suspected for years that the bottleneck to software development is in code generation not keeping up with idea generation.

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1. risyachka ◴[06 Jul 25 17:37 UTC] No.44482589[source]▶
You learn by trying to solve the problem by yourself.

This is not about syntax but about learning how to create solutions.

When you read solution you merely memorise existing ones. You don’t learn how to come up with your own.

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2. nojito ◴[06 Jul 25 20:39 UTC] No.44483844[source]▶
>When you read solution you merely memorise existing ones. You don’t learn how to come up with your own.

You can't solve programming problems without reading code.

Period.

The more code you read the better you get at solving problems because your internal knowledgebase grows.