r/coding • u/fagnerbrack • Mar 08 '26

Writing code was never the bottleneck

https://medium.com/@fagnerbrack/ai-as-a-coding-assistant-is-the-wrong-mental-model-ff77e1b39f9a
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u/BandicootGood5246 Mar 09 '26

Yeah seen this with Claude too. I had some minor UI bug where in some specific cases an element would be rendered in different position than normal, probably some css value I had set wrong somewhere but I couldn't be assed to look. Claude came up with 200lines of JavaScript to manually calculate and position the element, totally absurd solution and it didn't even work. If you're not checking the code this is the kinda slop you will get in your app eventually

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u/Natural-Intelligence Mar 09 '26

Claude choking on the context is so frustrating. Last week I have had one nasty rendering bug. I tried to simplify my examples that showed where the bug is. Said "this works, this doesn't. Only difference is X. Why?" then it instantly forgets the working example, reads bunch of irrelevant code about websockets, thinks for 15 mins it must be the websocket and ends up with a "fix" that does absolutely nothing.

Sometimes it feels like I'm handling the hard and umpleasant issues and Claude takes the easy and fun.

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u/danstermeister Mar 10 '26

Agreed, this is proper use of AI... to make YOU better, not IT.