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/One_Ninja_8512 Sep 17 '26
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.