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MixedClaude · 3 Nov 2025

The backend is an unsalvageable disaster, but the frontend is actually pretty good

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In the thread “I analyzed 180M jobs to see what jobs AI is replacing today”, replying to this comment

Helped: LLM produced functional frontend with less effort to fix.

Got in the way: Backend was an unsalvageable disaster.

… I got a new job recently and my main task has been overhauling a Claude generated app into something functional. The backend is an unsalvageable disaster, but the frontend is actually pretty good. Which is great for me because I suck at UIs. …