The creator of Claude Code spoke with Business Insider at Anthropic's developer conference in San Francisco on Wednesday.
    • jj4211@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      6 days ago

      This is just so fitting.

      I keep getting merge requests now from people that their whole job to date had been too scared by the syntax to try coding.

      It’s almost always a shotgun of way too many lines of code changed for a small thing, often with horrible side effects that would be unacceptable.

      Someone wanted to tweak the CSS layout of one element, what should have been a one line change. The pull request had hundreds of css changes, basically touching everything. Clearly the model had started changing things and he kept saying it didn’t do it yet until finally it did and it never rolled back anything it did, including many of the rules being repeated 5 times in a row in the same place…

      They felt like AI was making them so helpful because they could submit a code change directly instead of just asking for what they want. They proudly said “AI told me:” and then explain the brilliance of the AI finding. One time the AI finding was addressed over 6 months prior, the AI never thought to update the software, but instead proposed a really crap workaround that would have failed to cover a whole class of similar scenarios while simultaneously imposing crazy side effects on scenarios that weren’t tested.

      I can use AI too, please just send me what you would have sent to the AI, and if AI can do it, I could use the AI. If you think the AI will figure out how you are using something wrong and don’t want to bother/wait for a human to help, fine, but if it gets to what it thinks is a software bug, just rewind and start from your problem statement when you come to me…

  • bountygiver [any]@lemmy.mlEnglish
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    7 days ago

    isn’t vibe coding a term that comes from the ai bros themselves first? We would’ve used slop coding lol

  • CatAssTrophy@safest.spaceEnglish
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    7 days ago

    Who gives a flying fuck what terms one asshole is sick of? Fuck him, fuck vibe coding and trying to enforce language that appeals to what “elite” dipshits like.

  • Blackmist@feddit.ukEnglish
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    7 days ago

    “Call it what you like, you’re still going to need us” Code.

    It’s just really high level BASIC with much looser syntax. It doesn’t mean my boss could use it, any more than they could use the “no code” rubbish, BASIC, C, Fortran or Assembly that came before it.

    If your job was taking really detailed technical specifications and turning it into something a computer can read, then you might be in trouble. But my job was always deciphering the nonsense amalgamations of customers, sales people, and managers, figuring out what the actual requirement is, determine the simplest thing that could handle that, and write it in such a way that the inevitable changes that they request won’t be too painful to add.

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    • Subscription coding.
    • It looks like you’re writing an app. Can I help you with that?
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    • Clueless coding
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    • Brain-free coding
    • Developerless development
    • Self-driving systems
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    • If claude can do this it can replace management next
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    • Good luck copywriting this intellectual property theft
    • AI pwned
    • I never really understood the codebase in the first place
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    • I’m so much more valuable to my employer now that I’ve outsourced all that tedious thinking, understanding and creating I used to do.