As a research project, I built a needed tool with Claude Code. I thought it would be a disaster, but it wasn't. I have some complicated feelings about it.
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@mttaggart how did you find the model’s performance with Svelte? I haven’t had a lot of success there.
@mttaggart This was a great read, thank you for writing up your experiences.
As someone who is going back to school to transition into the field, the whole topic of AI is intriguing and intimidating at the same time. I am thankful I've been a hobbyist programmer for a long time, so I can recognize when it feels bad to use, along a lot of the lines you wrote about.
@mttaggart I wanted to write almost the same post, as this
> I let this thing into my brain, and now it is always there. For any new potential project, there is a voice in my head telling me how much easier it would be to let the model do it. How much faster it would be to simply describe the objective in a prompt and let go.
is what I'm strugling with now, but you wrote it perfectly
@mttaggart Debates aside, your thorough post was also a charm to read this gem.
"Do I think LinkedIn is the digital River Styx, where damned souls clamber over each other and claw at the boat passing overhead in the dim hope of salvation from those who have escaped the shambling horde?"
Also happy to read it works with Discourse.
@mttaggart
This might the best, most nuanced writeup I have read.
@EricCarroll Wow, thank you so much! I really appreciate that, and you taking the time to read it.
@mttaggart really excellent write up! Thanks for taking the time to do it
@mttaggart I feel very similar and have gone down a similar path recently. For me I've found it does very little wrong for the apps I am trying to make and I am more eager to press 2 because I enjoy the outcome and testing that outcome more then have control over the code.
I've been calling myself a self loathing AI user but I'm in the process of building 5 or 6 apps and tools I have wanted over the years but never found the effort to do.
@stefan would you be willing to share one example? The kind of app that you would want to build that you need to use this claud. What would be the difference of you doing it vice the ai doing it? Thank you.
@skykiss I just launched this mastodon client that is focused on live blogging. This probably would have taken me weeks or months to get it to the state I have gotten it in in just 2 weeks.
I certainly didn't need calaude to do it technically... but I did need it to lower the effort bar low enough that I actually got code committed to repo.
@stefan Thank you for sharing that experience, and thank you for reading!
@mttaggart "the best way to be pickled is to stay in the brine" - Gerald M. Weinberg
We are all in the brine now. Does the brine evaporate fast enough, or does it thicken?
