r/pcmasterrace • u/Away-Huckleberry9967 • 1d ago

Meme/Macro Let's check it out on Github

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u/hike_me 1d ago

“AI has a tendency to rewrite everything constantly”

I use Claude Code daily. I don’t find this to be true with any of the models released in 2026. We also spend a decent amount of time working on architecture documents, API contracts, etc at the beginning.

I also have Claude routines setup to run nightly to find code that has drifted from its documented behavior, finds duplicated or nearly duplicated code, etc. and then open targeted pull requests that can be reviewed by a human in 30 minutes or less (these ones always get human reviews because they’re not directed by a human).

I can tell you where any feature lives in the code base because the code structure still makes sense even after almost all our code written in the last 16+ months was done by Claude.

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u/ParkingAgent2769 1d ago

But there is a huge difference between developers carefully using LLMs to generate code, reviewing and “owning” each change, and a group of people blindly prompting to add features and fix stuff. That’s where the codebase can easily balloon to millions of lines of code, even using Fable 5.1 or Opus 5.5

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u/TheNorthComesWithMe 1d ago

AI doesn't rewrite stuff

I have nightly routines to find duplicated code

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u/hike_me 1d ago

Everything it’s found so far was written by a human

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u/ForwardAd4643 1d ago

I also have Claude routines setup to run nightly to find code that has drifted from its documented behavior

and you actually trust the output...? AI analyzing AI generated code great idea. Have you totaled up the cost of your tokens yet and realize you could just, y'know, use real engineers instead?

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u/booze_clues 1d ago

Are you working in software development or anything similar right now?

Yes, we trust them. They’re doing great work and taking a lot of the menial work out of the equation. I know the articles about “urrr Claude wiped my entire repo” are funny and maybe even true, but that is entirely user error. Someone actually experienced who knows what they’re doing will see amazing improvements with AI. Huge portions of coding is being automated right now, and you’re probably going to start seeing articles about that more and more. Remember that this isn’t a static technology, it’s improving rapidly, open source especially. A few years ago I couldn’t even use it for finding quotes in a selection of articles, today we can’t develop anything without AI integrated into it or our clients aren interested. Everyone wants it because it works and it works better every update, usually.

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u/Simon-Says69 19h ago

Complete and total nonsense. You're taking enormous shortcuts and producing a vastly inferior product for it.

AI is not anywhere near as good as your silly stories here try an paint it. You sound more like a marketing team than an actual programmer.

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u/dark_knight097 9800X3D | 64GB DDR5 | RTX 4090 | X870E | 2x4TB 990 PRO 11h ago

Your knowledge is probably a year out of date.

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u/hike_me 14h ago

You’re someone with no professional experience talking out your ass.

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u/booze_clues 11h ago edited 9h ago

How is it inferior? Can you tell me any actual issues you’ve identified with the code you’ve produced with AI? I assume with your experience you can at least give me some examples of issues you frequently find it making which led you to stop using it.

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u/Lurau 4070 ti super | i5-13600kf | 32GB DDR4 3200 17h ago

When did you last use a ai chat model?

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u/ForwardAd4643 10h ago

Are you working in software development or anything similar right now?

Yes, which is why I know the best use of AI is limited... function by function basis, with humans architecting every last step of the process. And guess what? I don't need to waste tokens on overnight unsupervised code "review." I never get it to generate more code than I can easily review in a couple minutes. Rinse & repeat all day. The fact you have to do the AI "code review" at all is an implicit admission that it is doing things you don't want, but since you're an idiot, you get the AI that wrote the bad code to write more bad code to fix it.

You are writing a whole lot of word slop there so I'm starting to think you have outsourced all of your brain function to AI. Get a life man. It's fun to make things yourself.

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u/booze_clues 9h ago

lol so emotional

Your inability to utilize tools to their full potential is a mark on you, not the tool. Doesn’t matter to me though, less competition is fine in my eyes.

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u/ForwardAd4643 8h ago

Good thing full potential is determined by my bosses and not some ignoramus who has forgotten the tech industry playbook called "enshittification"

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u/booze_clues 4h ago

Yeah, some guy who doesn’t do the work is telling you about how your tools should work and be used. Sounds about right.

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u/ForwardAd4643 4h ago

Aight well let me know where you're at in 3 years when you've forgotten how to code and tokens cost 15x what they do today because the investors need to recoup the hundreds of billions they wasted on underutilized & unwanted data centers and we'll compare notes

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u/booze_clues 3h ago

Why would I forget how to code?

Why would I be paying for tokens? Open models are already nearly on par with closed ones, few years from now they’ll almost certainly have reached parity.

It sounds like you just stuck your head in the sand and refused to educate yourself on AI, so you’re repeating the fear mongering stuff with no idea what you’re saying. Maybe it’s time to update your knowledge, do a little refresher on the current state of things?

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u/hike_me 9h ago

“Limited function by function”

This was true maybe 18 months ago.

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u/ForwardAd4643 8h ago

Did you know velocity isn't everything? Feel bad for you if you or your company think it is. Besides I'm pretty sure I can AI write code & review function by function with just as much speed and far less bugs than whatever your process is.

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u/hike_me 1d ago edited 1d ago

Do you have any professional experience?

I can tell you right now my boss isn’t going to approve spending 200k+ on another engineer but they will pay the cost of my enterprise seat for Claude.

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u/creepig Specs 1d ago

That's because anthropic is currently not charging you what they want to. They will eventually rug pull

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u/hike_me 1d ago

even if they increased my cost 10x it’s worth it for my employer

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u/creepig Specs 23h ago

That's a gross underestimation of the expected increase

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u/hike_me 23h ago

If that’s true people will just switch to quantized versions of the Chinese open models.

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u/ForwardAd4643 10h ago

Fucking laughable, sounds like you haven't even tried to use one. I have a 5090 and get to use one of the bigger models. Same prompt, same language, same internet sources, Claude will write 1,000 lines with only two or three errors. Chinese model has 100+.

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u/booze_clues 9h ago

Which model? We have open and closed models working together and they’re close to parity at this point.

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u/ForwardAd4643 8h ago

Qwen 3.6 but forget the exact model. The initial experiments were so bad I didn't bother refining it. I hear 3.8-27B is a lot better but meh

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u/hike_me 8h ago

We have multiple H200s with 141GB of VRAM, but I’m not ditching Claude until it costs like $5000 per month (right now our enterprise seat cost is still like $50 person per month)

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u/creepig Specs 8h ago

Also it likes to randomly insert Chinese characters in your code.