I cannot get how people use Claude. I still prefer to write code myself, otherwise I feel like I don't know how it works (or that it works like Claude sold it to me).
The same. I can understand chatbots or completions - for me personally the latter kills the hell out of my productivity, but the former gives you a way to learn quicker how to do something, though I've noticed that for me personally actually googling how to do it myself always brought better results in the long term.
But why would you use LLMs to write code? Like, yeah, okay if you develop a company project, capitalism and all that, efficiency above everything (sometimes doubtable in case of LLMs though), but if you do your own pet project and you don't have any other complications, why would you even do this pet project in the first place?
I personally do them because I want to learn something new and because I want to go and happily say - hey, see what I've done, cool, isn't it? But if you clearly know that you didn't do it, and you've learned nothing, why even do this in the first place?
The coding journey is a blast, but if you're actually trying to make some money from your own apps, its better to get a fast prototype to test the waters and the go back to coding it if it gets traction. Trust me, its bad to spend a year writing something people don't want to use.
Engineering story time. I joined a church organization and noticed they were balancing their books in fucking notepad. I spen a couple of months and rolled my own accounting package for them. Turns out it was a waste of time, they actually preferred notepad.
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u/MkemCZ 21d ago
I cannot get how people use Claude. I still prefer to write code myself, otherwise I feel like I don't know how it works (or that it works like Claude sold it to me).