Re:My Experience with Claude Code After 2 Weeks of Adventures
by William_BB on Friday July 18, 2025 @03:48AM
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The reason is probably complexity and the task at hand.
In my experience, LLMs are great at small tasks (bash or python scripts); good at simple CRUD stuff (js, ts, html, css, python); good at prototyping; good at documentation; okay at writing unit tests; okay at adding simple features in more complex databases;
Anything more complex and I find it pretty much unusable, even with Claude 4. More complex C++ codebases; more niche libraries; ML, CV, more mathsy domains that require reasoning.
In my experience, LLMs are great at small tasks (bash or python scripts); good at simple CRUD stuff (js, ts, html, css, python); good at prototyping; good at documentation; okay at writing unit tests; okay at adding simple features in more complex databases;
Anything more complex and I find it pretty much unusable, even with Claude 4. More complex C++ codebases; more niche libraries; ML, CV, more mathsy domains that require reasoning.