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by zdware 195 days ago
Agree with this. I'm a software engineer that has mostly not had to manage memory for most of my career.

I asked Opus how hard it would be to port the script extender for Baldurs Gate 3 from Windows to the native Linux Build. It outlined that it would be very difficult for someone without reverse engineering experience, and correctly pointed out they are using different compilers, so it's not a simple mapping exercise. It's recommendation was not to try unless I was a Ghrida master and had lots of time in my hands.
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dimitri-vs 195 days ago
FWIW most LLMs are pretty terrible at estimating complexity. If you've used Claude Code for any length of time you might be familiar with it's plan "timelines" which always span many days but for medium size projects get implemented in about an hour.

I've had CC build semi-complex Tauri, PyQT6, Rust and SvelteKit apps for me without me having ever touched that language. Is the code quality good? Probably not. But all those apps were local-only tools or had less than 10 users so it doesn't matter.

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zdware 195 days ago
That's fair, I've had similar experiences working in other stacks with it. And with some niche stacks, it seems to struggle more. Definitely agree the more narrow the context/problem statement, higher chance of success.

For this project, it described its reasoning well, and knowing my own skillset, and surface level info on how one would start this, it had many good points that made the project not realistic for me.

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hobs 195 days ago
Disagree - the timelines are completely reasonable for an actual software project, and that's what the training data is based on, not projects written with LLMs.
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theturtle32 194 days ago
Yes, this is my experience as well.
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delaminator 194 days ago
Claude gives advice on complexity for humans. Many times it has tried to push me away from what I’m trying to do because it is difficult, time consuming or tedious. I push it through its resistance and 10 minutes later it’s done.

I have this in my CLAUDE.md now.

“We are here to do the difficult and have plenty of time and there’s no rush.”

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