Comment by wuhhh
13 hours ago
I really, really wish that posts like this would give _specific examples_ of generated code they thought was sub par and what they did to remedy it. It’s not that I don’t believe that they found the output lacking in some way, it’s more that I read the post thinking, “I feel like Claude et al are way better programmers than me but this person is saying they’re more skilled, I’d love to see what their specific issues with generated code were and how they fixed them”. I mean, even one or two short examples would be amazing; without them I just come away with so many questions.
You can almost immediately smell the stink of Claude on a codebase. Maybe there’s nothing “wrong” with the code (it must work, right?) but it’s somehow incredibly off putting.
What interests me is what the “stink” looks like and feels like to you and why you find it so off putting. Let’s get into the weeds. I realise I sound like a therapist.
I’ll be honest, I can’t really quantify it. But the immediate stink is the nonsensical documentation and code comments it spits out. They’re completely unintelligible. I think when I see those I’m predisposed to think everything else going to be equally low quality. I usually just bounce, but when I don’t I just have a really hard time understanding wtf is going on with the code.