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Re:Has anyone tried building tools without coding? by breckenedge on Thursday February 27, 2025 @08:38AM (#43194251)
Claude’s “projects” feature so far has been good for toys and proof of concepts, but nothing I could maintain. It can connect to a GitHub repository but only read files. Multi-file support has been buggy. And editing files via prompting is slow. Currently I’m trying Cline with Claude 3.7 and it’s better. But using an editor is not the same as “no-code”.

So far my impression is that AI will be great for starting a project and iterating on small components, but not great for maintaining or enhancing a project. And there is still no replacement for good taste — the AI often just gets planning wrong and doesn’t push back if you ask it to do something dumb. So not a great partner for non-coders, yet.

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Re:Has anyone tried building tools without coding? by gonzor on Thursday February 27, 2025 @05:10PM (#43199083)
Yeah, that's been exactly my impression too. I am excited to see what Claude 3.7 can do.

> But using an editor is not the same as “no-code” I actually still prefer editors with assistants than no-code tools as I can always fallback to manually editing the code.

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