alt Hacker NewsDid the author ask it to make new abstractions? In my experience when I produces output that I don't like I ask it to refactor it. These models have and understanding of all modern design patterns. Just ask it to adopt one.
Did the author ask it to make new abstractions? In my experience when I produces output that I don't like I ask it to refactor it. These models have and understanding of all modern design patterns. Just ask it to adopt one.
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I have! I agree it's very good at applying abstractions, if you know exactly what you want. What I notice is that Claude has almost no ability to surface those abstractions on its own.
When I started having it write React, Claude produced incredibly buggy spaghetti code. I had to spend 3 weeks learning the fundamentals of React (how to use hooks, providers, stores, etc.) before I knew how to prompt it to write better code. Now that I've done that, it's great. But it's meaningful that someone who doesn't know how to write well-abstracted React code can't get Claude to produce it on their own.