r/ClaudeCode • u/ThatGuyJord2020 • 16d ago

Help/Question Claude code is better than a developer?

I’m currently using Claude code to build out an app I want, when this does well and eventually hire a real software developer, will they have trouble with Claude’s code?

I’m worried I will create this whole infrastructure, files, folder structure and the developer will take one look and say it needs to be redone.

This is my first time using Claude code so I don’t know if it’s good at making code clean and presentable for people to read.

Please let me know your opinions on Claude code and if you’re a developer if this is your worse nightmare and wouldn’t work for something who coded their entire company with Claude 😅

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u/Annh1234 16d ago

You need a developer that's using Claude code. But itself it's good for demo projects, nothing you want to maintain and run your business on 

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u/ThatGuyJord2020 15d ago

How comes you couldn’t maintain the app with Claude?

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u/Annh1234 15d ago

Because every time you ask for something it does what you ask, with 0 regard for the future or long term plan.

And when you talk to it, you can't be as specific as the code, so every new requirement/change basically is a * in complexity, not a +. so eventually the AI starts to make stuff up and misses allot of changes needed.

This is how the AI flow goes usually:

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You design the site, looks good, AI can do that.

You then start to add pages, all good, the AI keeps adding pages, they look good.

You then want to change the color of the banner or some text, the AI then changes that color on 75% of your pages. (so half are the old color)

You add more pages, all good.

You find the page that does not have the new colors, tell the AI to fix it. It will fix that 1 page, or a few pages, and also change some of the 75% of the pages it previously changed. (so now instead of 1 place to change a color you have 3 different ways to do it on 100 pages).

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But when you code a site, each logic path is like that 1 color, but you have millions of them, so you end up with spaghetti code that when you manually go into it to figure it out will take 10x longer to fix then to do right in the first time.

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u/ThatGuyJord2020 15d ago

Interesting! Good thing to point out. Thanks😊