This is a ludicrously simple app and also - the code[0] is of very poor quality....

FeepingCreature · 2024-10-21T06:54:08.000000Z

Eh, it's a bit hacked together sure. I find it easy to read?

mvdtnz · 2024-10-21T17:02:46.000000Z

Good code isn't just easy to read, it's easy to change. The code in this app is brittle, tightly coupled and likely to break if the app is changed.

FeepingCreature · 2024-10-21T20:48:35.000000Z

Eh. Honestly, so far Sonnet hasn't had any trouble with it. The thing is that every time it changes anything, it rewrites every line of code anyways just because I ask it "please give me the complete changed file(s) for easy copypasting."

The effort tradeoff is different for AIs than humans. Easy-to-understand-locally is more important than cheap-to-change, because it can do "read and check every line in the project" for like 20 cents. Making AIs code like humans is not playing to their strengths.

I don't think it's that bad anyways.