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by new_user_final 409 days ago
I am not a super coder but I am quite conscious what I write.

I copy pasted a part of my code into Claude.ai to help me add a few lines. It completed that part and also rewritten another few lines. I asked why it did that, explanation was that I missed a edge case.

LLMs are good for writing boring parts of code and also helpful for catching bugs.

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You have to be careful because they will sometimes make mistakes they do that. I’ve had Claude decide to “simplify” my code by removing a fix that took hours to chase down.
Was your fix commented? If not, a human developer refactoring your code could have done the same. I’ve seen it happen more than once.