I have a Claude max subscription. When I think of bad Claude code, I'm not thinking about unused variable definitions. I'm thinking about the times you turn on ultrathink, allow it to access tools and negotiate it's solution, and it still churns out an over complicated yet partially correct solution that breaks. I totally trust Claude to fix linting errors.

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WalterSear 5 hours ago | parent | next [-]

If you are getting garbage out, you are asking it for too much at once. Don't ask for solutions - ask for implementations.

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hatefulmoron 5 hours ago | parent [-]

Distinction without a difference. I'm talking about its output being insufficient, whatever word you want to use for output.

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WalterSear 4 hours ago | parent [-]

And I'm arguing that if the output wasn't sufficient, neither was your input.

You could also be asking for too much in one go, though that's becoming less and less of a problem as LLMs improve.

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hatefulmoron 4 hours ago | parent [-]

You're proposing a truism: if you don't get a good result, it's either because your query is bad or because the LLM isn't good enough to provide a good result.

Yes, that is how this works. I'm talking about the case where you're providing a good query and getting poor results. Claiming that this can be solved by more LLM conversations and ultrathink is cope.

	▲	WalterSear 3 hours ago \| parent [-]
		I've claimed neither. I actually prefer restarting or rolling back quickly rather than trying to re-work suboptimal outputs - less chance of being rabbit holed. Just add what I've learned to the original ticket/prompt. 'Git gud' isn't much of a truism.

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fragmede 5 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

It's hard to really discuss in the abstract though. Why was the generared code overly complicated? (I mean, I believe you when you say it was, but it doesn't leave much room for discussion). Similarly, what's partially correct about it? How many additional prompts does it take before you a) use it as a starting point b) use it because it works c) don't use any of it, just throw it away d) post about why it was lousy to all of the Internet reachable from your local ASN.

	▲	hatefulmoron 5 hours ago \| parent [-]
		I've read your questions a few times and I'm a bit perplexed. What kind of answers are you expecting me to give you here? Surely if you use Claude Code or other tools you'd know that the answers are so varying and situation specific it's not really possible for me to give you solid answers.