alt Hacker NewsI would estimate that out of every 200 lines of code that Claude Code produces, I notice at least 1 issue that would cause severe problems in production.
In my opinion these discussions should include MREs (minimal reproducible examples) in the form of prompts to ground the discussion.
For example, take this prompt and put it into Claude Code, can you see the problematic ways it is handling transactions?
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The invoicing system is being merged into the core system that uses Postgres as its database. The core system has a table for users with columns user_id, username, creation_date . The invoicing data is available in a json file with columns user_id, invoice_id, amount, description.
The data is too big to fit in memory.
Your role is to create a Python program that creates a table for the invoices in Postgres and then inserts the data from the json file. Users will be accessing the system while the invoices are being inserted.
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What he’s saying is split this up into multiple tasks to create the table, insert the data etc
And that's why you ask for a high level plan for something like that before you let the agent write any code. Then you review the plan for flaws, revise it, and prompt the system to fill out more details for each step. Repeat as necessary. Yes it's slow, but it's the best way of using this "glorified autocomplete" to ease and speed up real work.