[WhyOhWhyQ]

Whenever I start reviewing code produced by Claude I find hundreds of ways to improve it.

I don't know if code quality really matters to most people or to the bottom line, but a good software engineer writes better code than Claude. It is a testament to library maintainers that Claude is able to code at all, in my opinion. One reason is that Claude uses API's in whacky ways. For instance by reading the SDL2 documentation I was able to find many ways that Claude writes SDL2 using archaic patterns from the SDL days.

I think there are a lot of hidden ways AI booster types benefit from basic software engineering practices that they actively promote damaging ideas about. Maybe it will only be 10 years from now that we learn that having good engineers is actually important.

[simonw]

> Whenever I start reviewing code produced by Claude I find hundreds of ways to improve it.

Same here. So I tell it what improvements I want to make and watch it make them.

I've gained enough experience at prompting it that it genuinely is faster for me to tell it the change I want to make than it is for me to make that change myself, 90% of the time.

[HDThoreaun]

Ok then you just make review comments and it fixes them. Still faster than writing code yourself

[WhyOhWhyQ]

You missed the point. The original post is about not reading code.

You actually missed the point in two ways, because my response had little or nothing to do with speed of producing code. I'm not sure why you felt the need to express that irrelevant objection.