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rhubarbtree ◴[] No.45112846[source]
Does anyone have a link to a video that uses Claude Code to produce clean robust code that solves a non trivial problem (ie not tic tac toe or a landing page) more quickly than a human programmer can write? I don’t want a “demo”, I want a livestream from an independent programmer unaffiliated with any AI company and thus not incentivised to hype.

I want the code to have subsequently been deployed in production and demonstrably robust, without additional work outside of the livestream.

The livestream should include code review, test creation, testing, PR creation.

It should not be on a greenfield project, because nearly all coding is not.

I want to use Claude and I want to be more productive, but my experience to date is that for writing code beyond autocomplete AI is not good enough and leads to low quality code that can’t be maintained, or else requires so much hand holding that it is actually less efficient than a good programmer.

There are lots of incentives for marketing at the grassroots level. I am totally open to changing my mind but I need evidence.

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sirpalee ◴[] No.45113465[source]
I had success with it on a large, established project when using it for refactoring, moving around functions, implementing simple things and writing documentation. It failed when implementing complex new features and horribly went off the rails when trying to debug issues. Almost all its recommendations were wrong, and it kept trying to change things that certainly weren't the problem.
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1. apercu ◴[] No.45114243[source]
This matches my experience as well. One unexpected benefit is that I learned a couple pieces of hardware inside and out because LLMs make so many mistakes. If I wouldn’t have used an LLM I wouldn’t have gone down all these rabbit holes based on incorrect info - I would have just read the docs and solved my use case but missed out on deeper understanding.

Just reinforces my biases that LLMs are currently garbage for anything new and complicated. But they are a great interactive note taker and brainstorming tool.