I’ve written before about how November 2025 was an inflection point for coding agents—the point where Opus 4.5 and GPT-5.1 crossed a tipping point that meant their respective coding agents …
  • WolfLink@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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    7 hours ago

    Idk man literally today I tried having Claude opus write some code for me and it was ok, it worked, but it was overly complicated, reinvented the wheel several times, was sloppy, did some random unnecessary stuff, and was just generally spaghetti. I’m not surprised it looks impressive to someone knowing how to code, but I certainly wouldn’t want to associate my name with something like that.

    • FauxLiving@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      24 minutes ago

      That’s the wrong perspective, because you’re already a programmer. AI gives you functional but ugly code, but you can create functional and elegant code. If you want to make a game you can start immediately.

      If you’re an artist who is not a programmer, you cannot do that. You can, however, use AI to create functional but ugly code or to operate Godot for you.

      These games are not winning any Computer Science awards but if the character jumps when the space bar is pressed and the dragon dies when it is slain, that’s the part that matters for a game.