Working With AI To Build Something
I know how people feel about AI, but Claude is helping me make a web-based calculator for a client. I wouldn’t be able to have built this without it.
Now, I know I could hired a developer to get it done and all that. But using AI benefited me as well.
Seeing how Anthropic’s Claude was doing it and seeing it’s rational and being able to read the code somewhat myself, I was learning how it was being done.
Also, a large part of the project has to do with the prompting as it’s a complex task.
Look, using AI blindly is not good, but using to to help you and trying to learn from what the AI is writing isn’t a bad thing.
I think so many people are so quick to just write off AI and say it’s all bad without looking at it from various points of view.
This project didn’t have a budget big enough for me to use a dedicated development team. The amount of time it would have take to get it done with the “telephone-method” (like whispering down the line) would have been so painful.
Plus, if I were to get it developed cheaply via offshoring it, so much more would get lost in the language barrier.
It was easier to use AI and iterate with AI and code it up with… wait for it… AI.
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