vasko

Yes. You need to hold its hand for it to produce anything good, and at that point I'd rather write it myself. It's useful for reviewing snippets, but just letting it loose on your codebase results in shit like windows 11, or 99% of websites made in the last year.

Anthropic's own study showed the same, yet people ignore it.

The way AI is able to interact with outside resources is pretty impressive, but the quality of code it produces to me is still questionable, more so in the larger scope, and the errors it produces are sometimes hard to catch because they're not normal human errors.

Recently I tried to get Claude to write a script that produces large amounts of code so I could profile a compiler. The script ended up outputing code that uses variables outside of their scope, didn't utilize like 90% of the features of the language, and basically ended up being something that I could make by spamming copy paste.

The script itself was also written in really weird way, utilizing recursion for pretty much everything when most of what it did could be done in simple loops. It ended up being a bit of a nightmare to fix and the entire time I was asking myself "why didn't I just write this in 30 minutes instead of going through all of this".