alt Hacker News> Claude Code can build that application in an unprecedentedly short period
Yes, with the caveat that the application doesn't actually work.
P.S. If you wrote non-working applications even before the age of AI, then this is an upgrade, I guess.
> Claude Code can build that application in an unprecedentedly short period
Yes, with the caveat that the application doesn't actually work.
P.S. If you wrote non-working applications even before the age of AI, then this is an upgrade, I guess.
And yet here I am, playing a full-fledged first-person shooter written from scratch by an LLM as a proof of concept. It has enemies I sketched on paper, everything else is 100% procedurally generated in code. In what way does it not work? It's not very good, it's not optimized for maintenance or extension (that would take a complete rework which is also cheaper with it), but it does work and is not broken because the agent tested the most obvious scenarios. It took it a few hours.
As soon as your spec has a clearly defined reachable goal and non-contradictory constraints, and doesn't require taste or judgement, current agents are pretty good at reaching it, because it's all they're optimized for. Writing that spec in a non-contradictory manner is not trivial, though.