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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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dewey ◴[] No.45113054[source]
One of these things where you just have to put in the work yourself for a while and see how it works for your workflow and project.
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rhubarbtree ◴[] No.45120166[source]
That’s unusual though? I think programming languages, idioms, features - for example - are adopted by consensus, not by every programmer starting out from scratch and evaluating each one.
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1. theshrike79 ◴[] No.45124118{3}[source]
So if the "consensus" adopts ... Erlang, you will just start using it?

And because this "consensus" adopted it, you know what it's good for and what kind of problems its good at solving and whether it's a good option for what you specifically are doing?

Using LLMs is a skill that's (currently) a bit hard to teach, it's a ball of math and vectors that doesn't work in a deterministic way. Some magic words in the prompt will try to make it do something, but not always.

You really need to use one, preferably a few different ones, and get a feel for how they operate. Like driving a car. You can watch 420 hours of videos of people driving cars, but you really need to sit in one to get comfortable doing it.

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2. rhubarbtree ◴[] No.45130012[source]
> So if the "consensus" adopts ... Erlang, you will just start using it?

If everyone’s using it I will certainly learn it, yes.