Nobody knows how to build with AI yet

heck I built a full app in an afternoon AND I was a good dad?

> I'd wander into my office, check what Claude had built, test it real quick. If it worked, great! Commit and push. "Now build the server connection UI," I'd say, and wander back out.

Made breakfast. Claude coded.

Played with my son. Claude coded.

Watched some TV. Claude coded.

Every hour or so, I'd pop back in. Five minutes of testing. One minute of feedback.

But does Claude's code work? Does it work to the level where you'd depend on it yourself; where you'd bill customers for it; where you'd put your reputation behind it?

I say no. And it's because I use Claude. Two events changed how I use Claude: now it's an advisor, and I mostly type the code myself. Because I don't trust it.

First, I caught it copying one of my TypeScript interfaces and modifying it. So now we have User which looks like my actual user, that I defined, and UserAgain which does not, and which Claude is now using and proudly proclaiming that my type checks all pass. Well of course they do!

Second, I was told that the best way to catch this sort of thing is to get it to write tests. So it wrote some tests, and they failed, and it kept going, and it eventually wrote an un-failable test. The test mocked itself.

So, sure, enjoy time with your kids. Please don't ask me to use your app for anything important.