Comment on Lutris now being built with Claude AI, developer decides to hide it after backlash
favoredponcho@lemmy.zip 6 days agoTo be honest, Claude code writes damn good code. It’s very hard to argue you shouldn’t use it when it can pretty much do in 30 minutes what would take a human a month.
disorderly@lemmy.world 6 days ago
I think that newer models of Claude are a lot better, but they are still just chatbots and they still just generate words. As anyone in the industry will tell you: typing out the code was never the slow part.
favoredponcho@lemmy.zip 6 days ago
It’s not just Claude, it’s Claude code. Not sure if you’ve actually used it. I’m using Claude code every day now. I don’t write a single line myself anymore. I just prompt and review and prompt again. At this point, I can see how it is more efficient to have one engineer prompting five Claude agents than to ask that one engineer to explain the design to five contractors and ask them to build it. The contractors will take weeks. Claude takes minutes. I did in 2 days this week what would’ve taken 5 engineers two weeks each before. I know this because I actually built something similar last year and it took 5 engineers two weeks each to do it. I did it by myself in two days this time with Claude code. I’m not wrong about this because I can see it with my own eyes. I know Lemmy is full of a bunch of people that are whiny about AI, and I get it to a degree, but it is also legitimately changing things.
disorderly@lemmy.world 6 days ago
Haha, yeah I use it as well, and like I said it makes drafting the code a lot faster, but it dramatically slows down review and validation of fit for the business purpose.
If I could, I’d put the genie back in the bottle because having ICs dump thousand line MRs on each other and then finding out in gamma that it didn’t actually solve the problem is a ton worse than making a person actually think about what they’re gonna commit for a couple hours. But alas, if we don’t take a first draft with Claude or Gemini agentic tools for every ticket we’ll get PIP’d, so I guess the AI enthusiasts and their sponsors are happy.
favoredponcho@lemmy.zip 5 days ago
I think that’s where our work processes are maybe different. I already have a very well-defined design that I’ve worked out with the business types. They all signed off on it and at this point I’m just telling Claude to build what I have already documented. I know very well what is required and won’t let it stray from that with its own ideas.