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I find this baffling tbh as I regularly ask Claude for basic components and they come out completely broken, wrong and buggy.

The last: I asked for a quick TCP server in C++ that handled just a single client (disconnecting the existing client when a new client connected), with a send() that I could call from another thread. It was holding mutexes over read(), and trying to set the SO_REUSEPORT port socket option on a socket that had already been bound. Subtley broken garbage.

It would literally be better to copy and paste a solution off Stack Overflow, because at least there's a chance it'd have been reviewed by someone who knows what they're doing.

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> a large financial application

Those could mean anything. Some people think 5k likes is large. Others think 100k is small.

Oh well, at least they didn't say "complex".

Also, they didn't say how accurate or secure it is.

Good one! :)

Since its proprietary, it runs in a private cloud environment and is processing only data of one "user per instance"; there is not public interface, only a VPN you have to dial in etc., so no frontend/frontpage facing the public.

Though, there are some design flaws from this perspective, because of convenience: E.g. it lets you persist the account number in the DB, if wanted.

"large" in a sense of functionality for the given/required usecase.

LOC is currently around 200k, so for sure: Its not Microsoft-scale :-D

i think its all about caring and knowing what you want to make and willing to iterate on the result until it is actually good. If you want the ai to do your job for you its probably not going to work, but if youre really good at using its advantages you almost certainly will be winning

You are simply doing it wrong.

I could do this TCP server in another time at all and it would be perfect. I have done stuff that complicated and more many times.

You need to rethink how you are using the tool because you absolutely could get excellent results like I do.

The biggest things I suggest are... Treat it as collaboration or pair programming. Make sure to work through a design before programming and have it written to a file for your review before execution.

You can do this.

this is an abysmal level of condescension, the kind that makes me wish mods actively moderated it, as it's that insulting

That doesn't sound like it would actually save me any time, or produce better results than just doing it myself.

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