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A staff engineer's journey with Claude Code

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548 points kmelve | 1 comments | 02 Sep 25 19:34 UTC | HN request time: 0.206s | source
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cjonas ◴[03 Sep 25 01:57 UTC] No.45111482[source]▶
Once thing I've noticed is the difference in code quality by language. I'm constantly disappointed by the output of python code. I have to correct it to follow even the most basic software development principles (DRY, etc).

Typescript on the other hand, seems to do much better on first pass. Still not always beautiful code, but much more application ready.

My hypothesis is that this is due to the billions LOC of Jupyter Notebook it was probably trained on :/

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1. rcfox ◴[03 Sep 25 02:49 UTC] No.45111792[source]▶
With Typescript, I find it pretty eager to just try `(foo as any).bar` when it gets the initial typing wrong. It also likes to redefine types in every file they're used instead of importing.

It will fix those if you catch them, but I haven't been able to figure out a prompt that prevents this in the first place.