alt Hacker Newsn=1 but, a friend of mine spent the last few months working on an experimental music software with Claude. What he built is amazing and far beyond my abilities (I have been programming for 20 years). He doesn't know any programming.
In fact, it's far beyond what I would even attempt, because I've just spent two decades building up a data bank of how hard things are supposed to be.
He doesn't know it's supposed to be hard, so he just does it.
Is his code maintainable, though? Or is it just a pile of code which happens to work? What if he wants to change something? Does he generate again the whole thing from scratch? Or does he tell Claude to make the changes and doesn't even know when something breaks when a new thing is added? (Assuming the software is complex, having multiple non trivial features.)