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NoClaude · 4 Sep 2026

The slop it crapped out would make most if not all our users leave for the competition

leptons on Hacker News

In the thread “The asteroid currently hitting front end web development”, replying to this comment

Got in the way: Reproducing a polished app resulted in unusable output.

I spent 2 years developing and polishing a front end web application, and then some other engineers at my company pointed Claude at it to try to reproduce it. The slop it crapped out would make most if not all our users leave for the competition. Then they had the nerve to ask me to explain what was bad about the sloppified version. …