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Comment by SCdF

5 hours ago

I am getting workable code with Claude on a 10kloc Typescript project. I ask it to make plans then execute them step by step. I have yet to try something larger, or something more obscure.

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brabel  5 hours ago

Most agents do that by default now.

  • GoatInGrey  4 hours ago

    I feel like there is a nuance here. I use GitHub Copilot and Claude Code, and unless I tell it to not do anything, or explicitly enable a plan mode, the LLM will usually jump straight to file edits. This happens even if I prompt it with something as simple as "Remind me how loop variable scoping works in this language?".

jasondigitized  5 hours ago

This. I feel like folks are living in two separate worlds. You need to narrow the aperture and take the LLm through discrete steps. Are people just saying it doesn't work because they are pointing it at 1m loc monoliths and trying to oneshot a giant epic?

  • nh23423fefe  5 hours ago

    AI was useless for me on a refactor of a repo 20k loc even after I gave examples of the migrations I wanted in commits.

    It would correctly modify a single method. I would ask it to repeat for next and it would fail.

    The code that our contractors are submitting is trash and very high loc. When you inspect it you can see that unit tests are testing nothing of value.

       when(mock.method(foo)).thenReturn(bar)
   assert(bar == bar)

    stuff like that

    its all fake coverage, for fake tests, for fake OKRs

    what are people actually getting done? I've sat next to our top evangelist for 30 minutes pair programming and he just fought the tool saying something was wrong with the db while showing off some UI I dont care about.

    like that seems to be the real issue to me. i never bother wasting time with UI and just write a tool to get something done. but people seem impressed that AI did some shitty data binding to a data model that cant do anything, but its pretty.

    it feels weird being an avowed singularitarian but adamant that these tools suck now.

  • echelon  4 hours ago

    I'm using Claude in a giant Rust monorepo. It's really good at implementing HTTP handlers and threaded workers when I point it at prior examples.