Agentic Coding Slot Machines – Did We Just Summon a Genie Addiction? – Part 1

Agentic Coding Slot Machines – Did We Just Summon a Genie Addiction? – Part 1(madhavajay.com)

12 points by llamavore 319 days ago | 6 comments

khoaguin 318 days ago |

Hi Madhava, in the blog post you mentioned in "Claude Code Use-cases" that it's good at "one shot entire applications (like crabmux)", however, I am curious about how good it is at changing small things, do small improvements / fixing bugs?

llamavore 318 days ago | |

It’s actually really good at small bugs but you need to make sure it can understand what’s broken by giving it context. Logs, curls, screenshots etc. The biggest problem is when it goes on vision quests and does stuff you didn’t ask.

The meme with the car and duck are basically how AI agents like to “fix bugs”, sometimes they’re like oh I fixed the bug and changed the button which you never asked for. Lol. Adding a wheel and changing the car into a cat!

ionesiojr 319 days ago |

The phrase 'I haven't felt so energized and confused and so willing to try new things' perfectly described my experience with Claude Code. It's a really polished tool.

llamavore 319 days ago | |

Yeah, thats the_mitsuhiko aka Armin Ronacher. It was a joy to talk to him about Claude Code.

alexdobrenko 318 days ago |

launch the browser (logged in as you) and do simple tasks

how are you doing this?

llamavore 318 days ago | |

Check the post from Simon Willison: https://til.simonwillison.net/claude-code/playwright-mcp-cla...

You install the playwright mcp server and then it just launches chrome.

Also check out https://browser-use.com/ https://github.com/browser-use/browser-use

and

https://github.com/D4Vinci/Scrapling