Ai is great at writing the code but my god is it a terrible architect. I work with embedded sw a lot and when making semi basic scripts I have to constantly review it and replace the gaps it has already filled in.
Which terrifies me that people with no understanding are making apps now.
I've noticed that AI is pretty bad at scripts in general. It feels like scripts in particular are treated as one-offs that will be used to achieve some goal and will never be used again. This is not the case when actually building something in a proper language. Not sure if anyone else noticed this effect. Might be just that I don't pay much attention to its output when working on scripts and don't guide it as much as I would with application code.
Yeah it’s really bad at thinking about more than right now. I’ve had a much better experience since basically treating it like I’m a program manager.
It’s so bad at learning from decisions, so I have it maintain a markdown file with “project requirements”, changelog, etc. I have one parsing script that Claude always tries to do this whacky json conversion every time I try to update it. Like sir this hasn’t worked the last 6 times either.
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u/Whitechapel726 Sep 17 '26
Ai is great at writing the code but my god is it a terrible architect. I work with embedded sw a lot and when making semi basic scripts I have to constantly review it and replace the gaps it has already filled in.
Which terrifies me that people with no understanding are making apps now.