Comment by eptcyka

Comment by eptcyka 7 hours ago

Claude Code from the terminal is servicable enough. Yet I cannot open the same project from different versions of Xcode without some manual finnagling. Xcode is at no existential risk for it is the only tool you are allowed to use to reach your audience on the app store. Don’t be ridiculous. The reason Xcode is as broken as it is today is because of the same exact reason. The developer experience need not be great, as long as you can coax the trash fire of a toolchain to upload a signed app to AppStoreConnect, there is 0 incentive for Apple to put any time into the tool.

neutronicus 7 hours ago

For a certain-size project it really is not.

Single files in our codebase already blow the Copilot query token limit.

Great, Anthropic taught Claude to grep. On our project, it's still useless because it can't use the semantic search in the IDE.

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gbalduzzi 6 hours ago

> Single files in our codebase already blow the Copilot query token limit.
This tells more about your code quality that about copilot, and I'm not a fan of copilot

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- neutronicus 6 hours ago
  
  I disagree.
  Sure, it's a dumpster fire. But human engineers work on it just fine without investing man-decades into refactoring it into some shrine to the software engineer's craft.
  The whole point of AI, in our parent company's eyes, is for no one to mention "code quality" as something impeding the delivery of features, yesterday, ever.
  
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  SgtBastard 6 hours ago
  
  Claude, with a modicum of guidance from an engineer familiar with your monolith, could could write comprehensive unit tests of your existing system, then refactor it into coherent composable parts, in a day.
  Not doing so while senior management demands the use of AI augmentation seems odd.
  
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  neutronicus an hour ago
  
  It's a 25-year-old CAD application written in very non-standard C++. I doubt it.
  Certainly I have tried to accomplish tasks giving Claude guidance far outstripping "a modicum".
  
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