| ▲ | pierreneter 5 hours ago |
| The code generated by Claude is fully under my control, and I make sure it works exactly as I intend. I could have hidden this by committing it myself, but I choose to acknowledge that I had Claude's help |
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| ▲ | frevib 5 hours ago | parent | next [-] |
| It’s not your fault. The problem is now that my mother in law can vibe code a complete operating system, I cannot distinguish quality from shit any more. And the last few OSS projects that I tried that had the Claude icon where shit and breaking in many ways. |
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| ▲ | mbreese 3 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | I think your prior assumption that all OSS projects had a degree of quality is where your problem is. But I get it. We’ve had low quality code for as long as we’ve had programmable machines. I’ve seen a lot of manually written bad code well before LLMs took over. Nowadays, I primarily look at how long a repo has been around and how active it is. A repo that has consistent activity is probably going to be a higher quality one. Even better if I can follow PRs to see how the code base is evolving. I will admit it’s become more difficult to tell low quality git repos from higher quality ones. Missing files or incomplete README files are a thing of the past. Claude is very good at filling in the gaps to make all repos at least appear respectable. | |
| ▲ | Infernal 4 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | It's kinda like eternal September but for software engineering. There was a time that just being on the internet, having an email address, etc. was a signal that indicated a level of technical proficiency. Now everyone has that connectivity, it doesn't mean anything anymore. Same concept, but github repos now. |
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| ▲ | darklinear 4 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| The Claude-generated README doesn't inspire confidence in that. I believe you checked all the code, but a lot of people are going to see that README and not give the project a second chance. |
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| ▲ | 0xCMP 4 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| This is also why I allow it to add these things to the commit. I think it's worth disclosing despite me checking everything it did myself. |
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| ▲ | geraneum 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-] |
| > I make sure it works exactly as I intend I appreciate the effort. May I ask how do you tackle this? |
