[hectdev]

This fascinates me. Just observing but because it hasn't worked for you, everyone else must be lying? (I'm assuming that's what you mean by baseless)

How does that bridge get built? I can provide tangible real life examples but I've found push back from that in other online conversations.

[queenkjuul]

My boss has been passing off Claude generated code and documentation to me all year. It is consistently garbage. It consistently hallucinates. I consistently have to rewrite most, if not all, of what I'm handed.

I do also try and use Claude Code for certain tasks. More often than not, i regret it, but I've started to zero in on tasks it's helpful with (configuration and debugging, not so much coding).

But it's very easy then for me to hear people saying that AI gives them so much useful code, and for me to assume that they are like my boss: not examining that code carefully, or not holding their output to particularly high standards, or aren't responsible for the maintenance and thus don't need to care. That doesn't mean they're lying, but it doesn't mean they're right.

[hectdev]

Not everyone is your boss. I have 15 years of experience coding. So when the AI hallucinates, I call that out and it improves the code it does create. If someone is passing off Ai's first pass as done, they are not using the tool correctly.

[queenkjuul]

My boss has 28 years of experience coding so that clearly isn't the deciding factor here.

Yes, i suppose it is theoretically possible that you are that much better than my boss and i at coaxing good output from an LLM, but I'm going to continue to be skeptical until i see it with my own eyes.

[int_19h]

"Claude Code" by itself is not specific enough; which model are we talking about?

[bluefirebrand]

> it hasn't worked for you, everyone else must be lying?

Well, some non-zero amount of you are probably very financially invested in AI, so lying is not out of the question

Or you simply have blinders on because of your financial investments. After all, emotional investment often follows financial investment

Or, you're just not as good as you think you are. Maybe you're talking to people who are much better at building software than you are, and they find the stuff the AI builds does not impress them, while you are not as skilled so you are impressed by it.

There are lots of reasons someone might disagree without thinking everyone else is lying

[hectdev]

I think calling it baseless to claim benefits from AI is more than disagreeing. It's claiming a rightness that is just contrarian and hyperbolic. It's really interesting to me that the skeptics are exactly who should be using AI. Push back on it. Tell it that the code it made was wrong.