Code Notes for the Day - I think my coding changes are too large - Aug 26 2025

<p>So i was working on a video analytics dashboard. And its working ok currently. But i pass in the code to claude and it makes all these changes and then i copy the instructions over to the test version of the site, and its all broken.&nbsp;</p>
<p>Where do you begin to make changes then.&nbsp;</p>
<p>All the files are structured annoyingly and have seperate functions and even the css is all seperated.&nbsp;</p>
<p>I think i spend more time fixing the code than just building it properly from scratch.&nbsp;</p>
<p>Maybe my code queries need to be more specific.&nbsp;</p>
<p>I think ill give up on it for the day.&nbsp;</p>
<p>The dashboard is up to v16 already, some days the code changes go well and other days they kinda suck.</p>
<p>Makes me want to shelve the code for a bit and work on something else.&nbsp;</p>
<p>Then when i run out of credits on claude i move over to grok which is pretty good but also produces non working code,</p>
<p>even when passing in a simple error like is getcurrentuser a built in function php, it does not detect that as an issue before actually running it.&nbsp;</p>
<p>hmm...&nbsp;</p>
<p>It seems that most code from now on will be either written by some kind of AI or maintained by AI, so what does that mean for actual programming humans. I guess that we need to use the tools to increase our coding speed or skills.&nbsp;</p>
<p>Maybe im just looking at it wrong rather than passing it in 5 files and going lets make this global change i think i need to pass in a small part of the code and say make a small change and then test it, or it spends several minutes rewriting all the code and it does not work. having then to roll back to a working verion.&nbsp;</p>
<p><strong>Kinda related but also not.&nbsp;</strong></p>
<p>I wonder with all this AI content now, will it get so good that it will actually be hard to distinguish between humans and AI?</p>