Comment by SenHeng
16 days ago
Another thing I’ve experienced is scope creep into the average. Both Claude and ChatGPT keep making recommendations and suggestions that turns the original request into something that resembles other typical features. Sometimes that’s a good thing, because it means I’ve missed something. A lot of times, especially when I’m just riffing on ideas, it turns into something mundane and ordinary and I’ll have lost my earlier train of thought.
A quick example is trying to build a simple expenses app with it. I just want to store a list of transactions with it. I’ve already written the types and data model and just need the AI to give me the plumping. And it will always end up inserting recommendations about double entry bookkeeping.
yeah but that's like recommending a webserver for your Internet facing website. If you want to give an example of scope creep, you need a better example than double entry book keeping for an accounting app.
You’ve just illustrated exactly the problem. You assumed I was building an accounting app. I’ve experienced the same issue with building features for calculating the brightness of a room, or 3D visualisations of brightness patterns, managing inventory and cataloguing lighting fixtures and so on.
It’s great for churning out stuff that already exists, but that also means it’ll massage your idea into one of them.