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

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. 

Where do you begin to make changes then. 

All the files are structured annoyingly and have seperate functions and even the css is all seperated. 

I think i spend more time fixing the code than just building it properly from scratch. 

Maybe my code queries need to be more specific. 

I think ill give up on it for the day. 

The dashboard is up to v16 already, some days the code changes go well and other days they kinda suck.

Makes me want to shelve the code for a bit and work on something else. 

Then when i run out of credits on claude i move over to grok which is pretty good but also produces non working code,

even when passing in a simple error like is get_current_user a built in function php, it does not detect that as an issue before actually running it. 

hmm... 

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. 

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. 

Kinda related but also not. 

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?