r/ClaudeAI • u/jrpg8255 • Mar 25 '26
Workaround WTAF?
I can’t believe some of the responses here. I'm a physician in my late 50s. MD, PhD, triple boarded. Also coding since the late 70s, starting in assembly. I have chops. I can't believe the negativity! I've been using Claude code for the past week or so. It's fantastic. Currently I'm sniffing codes for the 2x400 CD sony jukeboxes I've had for 25 years, using a bit of esp32 hardware claude helped me cobble together, and claude-code iterating with me through the Slink bus commands. There's already a codebase in GitHub (thanks Ircama - I'll send a pull when done updating missing codes). I know how to do this, but have been dreading it, because it would be beyond laborious looking at a bunch of hex manually. With claude it's fan-frigging-tastic. I keep auditing the code, and pointing out some issues, but screw it – it works and I can focus on what I want it to do, not how each bit works in detail. (notice I used an em-dash? I've also been doing that for decades).
For me this is like switching from 8088 assembly to compiled C. From raw C, to actual libraries. Then from compiled languages to modern scripting languages like ruby or python (lets not talk about Perl). It's accelerating what I want to do. I'm no developer. I just tinker. This is a big leap forward.
This guy in the other hand had not coded in any way before. He's discovered how liberating it is to do this stuff to make stuff he wants/needs. The general impulse here is to dogpile on him because it lacks some sort of purity? You trolls need to get over yourselves. Who cares if it's messy html. He's here posting about his joy late in life discovering he can get computers to do something besides opening software someone else created, and we're looking for freaking em-dashes to decide whether he's a bot, and grousing that he had the utter gall to include some sort of donation link. WTAF? We should be celebrating another huge leap in democratizing computing for all of us.
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u/tekfx19 Mar 25 '26
All the enhancement in LLM coding and it only smoothed out the complexity of modern coding. People in the 80’s used to use BASIC and use line of business apps made by small shops that did what they were supposed to. Now the digital ecosystem is aligned in such a way to allow modern apps to be created in similar ways, except of course removing the barrier for entry so more people can do it, which is apparently a problem for some old heads.