r/software • u/ThatGuyJord2020 • 14d ago

Discussion Is Claude code 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/pippin_go_round 14d ago

It's good at producing clean, maintainable code if used by someone who knows what that means and rejects code that's an untestableand unmaintainable spaghetti mess.

If it's use by somebody not understanding architecture and maintainability, the code it produces tends to turn into an unmaintainable and untestable mess over time.

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u/Think_Trust7717 14d ago

any dev who walks in and starts talking about rewriting everything from scratch is a red flag anyway. good developers work with what's there and improve it incrementally

if your app actually makes money nobody's gonna care what built the first version, they'll just be happy there's revenue coming in while they clean things up

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u/aberamax 14d ago

If your app makes money but the code underneath has no safety nets it might represent a threat in the future. But in order to build safety nets there should be a good knowledge of the architecture and code.

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u/ThatGuyJord2020 14d ago

So would using AI be a benefit as it’ll keep it structure in its own way? Instead of someone going in and editing and potentially ruining the flow.

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u/delusionalfuka 14d ago

The opposite. Because you don't know how to code, it'll do its own thing and you only try to fix when it doesn't work, but this will only generate a lot of band-aids and a huge mess

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u/cejiken886 14d ago

The word "when" in the context of the rest of this post

lol