[mikgp]

I had an interesting interaction with Claude Code. I was trying to write this tool to process metadata from a website, and the websites API’s had rate limits so I was slowly downloading website metadata 1 api call at the time. I told Claude code “I want to cache the data locally so I can run queries against it, make sure the data persists.” With a long explanation.

Now what I didn’t realize at the time, because I’m not an expert in all like design patterns, is I didn’t in fact want a cache I wanted a catalot. I wanted to store all this data in a database long term.

But it was too late, Claude had gone out and used local storage (which is technically persistent. Like it has fucked all the things.

Coding problem? Skill issue? Did I try the latest models?

I don’t think these things are entirely separable. The code compiled but didn’t do what I asked, I don’t know what we mean by “is coding solved”. But if in order to be relatively efficient we require the user to know which model to use depending on the complexity of the coding task, then I’d say it’s not “solved”.

To answer your other question, I write code in the drivers seat. I’m looking to optimize my workflow, but I try to work atomically and do a combination of understanding the general code layout and architecture of the application before prompting Claude to make relatively specific changes. More autocomplete less agent (though I use agents or other things just not adding all the code blind.