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I bet with a co-worker that a migration from angular 15 to angular 19 could be done really fast avoiding months. I spent a whole evening on it and Claude code have never been able to pull off a migration from 15 to 16 on its own. A total waste of time and nothing worked. I had the surprise that it cost me 275$ for nothing. So maybe for greenfield projects it’s smooth and saves time but it’s not a silver bullet on projects with problems.

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I've had a lot of issues with Claude and web development.

I ended up asking it how it wanted to work and would an 'AdminKit Template' work to get things moving.

It recommended AdminKit and that was a good move.

For me, custom UI's aren't a big part of the solution, I just need web pages to manage CRUD endpoints to manage the product.

AdminKit has been a good fit so far, but it was a fresh start, no migration.

You asked Claude if AdminKit would work and in answer it recommended AdminKit? Seriously? Wow, what an unexpected turn of events. I am flabbergasted.

Apologies, it was a typo. I asked what 'Admin Template' because there are so many, and rather than build something from scratch, I wanted one it seemed to have understanding of.

It mentioned AdminKit and it worked out pretty well.

> it cost me 275$ for nothing

Recently, there was story about developer who was able to crush interview and got parallel full-time jobs in several start-ups. Initially he was able to deliver but then not so much.

Somehow your case is reminding this to me, where AI is this overemployed developer.

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