I find anecdotes like yours bewildering, because I've been using Opus with Vue.js and it crushes everything I throw at it. The amount of corrections I need to make tend to be minimal, and mostly cosmetic.

The tasks I give it are not trivial either. Just yesterday I had it create a full-blown WYSIWYG editor for authoring the content we serve through our app. This is something that would have taken me two weeks, give or take. Opus looked at the content definitions on the server, queried the database for examples, then started writing code and finished it in ~15 minutes, and after another 15-20 minutes of further prompting for refinement, it was ready to ship.

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alternatex 2 days ago | parent [-]

Created a WYSIWYG editor or copied it off the internet like your average junior would, bugs included?

If that editor is very complicated (as they usually are) it makes sense to just opt for a library. If it's simple then AI is not required and would only reduce familiarity with how it works. The third option is what you did and I feel like it's the option with the lowest probability of ending up with a quality solution.

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PaulHoule a day ago | parent [-]

There is contenteditable and EditContext hese days, it's not that hard to make a simple WYSIWYG editor. An LLM could figure out how to operationalize these things quicker than I could.

	▲	enraged_camel a day ago \| parent [-]
		To be clear, I'm not talking about a rich-text editor. I'm talking about a notion-like interface where you can drag and drop different types of elements to a canvas to build rich content, and adjust the blocks horizontally or vertically via drag and drop.