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I spent about an hour coaching Claude through the feature, and in the end it produced something that looked superficially correct, but didn't compile
fdsf111 on Hacker News
saved me 1 or 2 hours
In the thread “6 weeks of Claude Code”
Helped: Clear patterns for tests and simple CLI tools in unfamiliar languages.
Got in the way: Complex recursive logic breaking existing module patterns; lack of learning.
… So I needed Claude Code to do some sort of recursive top-level driver that would add new pages to a document until it exhausted the input data. I spent about an hour coaching Claude through the feature, and in the end it produced something that looked superficially correct, but didn't compile. After spending some time debugging, I moved on and wrote the thing by hand. …