| ▲ | omnicognate 2 days ago | |
I tried Claude Code a while back when I decided to give "vibe-coding" a go. That was was actually quite successful, producing a little utility that I use to this day, completely without looking at the code. (Well, I did briefly glance at it after completion and it made my eyeballs melt.) I concluded the value of this to me personally was nowhere near the price I was charged so I didn't continue using it, but I was impressed nonetheless. This brief use of Claude Code was done mostly on a train using my mobile phone's wi-fi hotspot. Since the connection would be lost whenever the train went through a tunnel, I encountered a bug in Claude Code [1]. The result of it was that whenever the connection dropped and came up again I had to edit an internal json file it used to track the state of its tool use, which had become corrupt. The issue had been open for months then, and still is. The discussion under it is truly remarkable, and includes this comment from the devs: > While we are always monitoring instances of this error and and looking to fix them, it's unlikely we will ever completely eliminate it due to how tricky concurrency problems are in general. Claude Code is, in principle, a simple command-line utility. I am confident that (given the backend and model, ofc) I could implement the functionality of it that I used in (generously!) at most a few thousand lines of python or javascript, I am very confident that I could do so without introducing concurrency bugs and I am extremely confident that I could do it without messing up the design so badly that concurrency issues crop up continually and I have to admit to being powerless to fix them all. Programming is hard, concurrency problems are tricky and I don't like to cast aspersions on other developers, but we're being told this is the future of programming and we'd better get on board or be left behind and it looks like we're being told this by people who, with presumably unlimited access to all this wonderful tooling, don't appear to be able to write decent software. | ||