One piece of anecdata: after first getting into Claude Code and then discovered the Claude app I briefly got excited about using it in voice chat mode, demonstrated this to my Austrian wife who found it immediately cool then of course asked if she could chat with it in German. On finding the answer was no, she immediately signed up for ChatGPT so she could use the same feature in her native language. I’m sure Anthropic models are decent with German in text chat, but the lack of that one feature is what drove her straight to a competitor.
I mean, technically it was built for "the management of general information about accelerators and experiments at CERN". The fact that it also supports a whole bunch of peoples' passion projects as well as a multi-trillion dollar commercial marketplace is just a bonus...
Sorry you're struggling. There are tons of resources out there from people who've been through the same pain and built up techniques to mitigate them. Matt Pocock's YouTube channel is one good starting place, there are many others. One key tip though is - you own the architecture of your application. If your files have become bloated over several rounds of LLM-generated code, that is primarily your responsibility to observe and push back on that, to ensure your repo as a brief but firm AGENTS.md or CLAUDE.md to describe architectural non-negotiables and some kind of /code-review skill that you give to a second agent to review the first agent's work against those standards. Worried about LLM changes introducing regressions? That's why you have a test suite, and you read what the agent changes to ensure the tests themselves are still checking for correct behaviour.
Your comment comes off as patronising, I don’t know if you intended that or not. These issues are not a matter of ‘holding it wrong’, they’re fundamental to agentic coding.
Don’t they have Haftpflichtversicherung in Germany? Set up as a sole trader, get good-enough liability insurance, send invoices on Day 1, earn actual money while you wait for however long it takes to get that elusive company registration set up. In Austria as an IT Consultant you get liability insurance under a very reasonable group deal through the Wirtschaftskammer. Pay a bit more to get a private policy with more coverage of that’s important to you. I’d be really surprised if similar options aren’t available to our friends across the Alps.
As soon as you work in a team, it’s irrelevant whether the project actually needs it. There will be someone who convinces stakeholders that it is necessary and then you just have to fall in line and learn the skills knowing that it is most likely one of the 99.9% of projects where it is just overkill.
Until your project has some success, and it turns out all those "complex" features actually turn out to be extremely useful.
Which is exactly what is happening with us, too bad we didn't choose K8S from the get-go and stuck with a "simpler" tool (gaining very little in the process).
I guess if you have a subscription with a token allowance that you are not going to use up this week, it’s better to let someone else use those tokens rather than throwing them away. So using the food analogy it’s more like a store giving away unsold sandwiches to the homeless at the end of the day instead of throwing them away.
Absolutely true - witness the enormous upheaval in the north of England’s coal mining communities when all the pits got closed in the 1980s. It wasn’t just individuals but families across generations and entire villages who had defined themselves by the work they did. It was easy for those in Westminster to say it was a sound decision for the national economy as a whole, but apart from leaving the workers high and dry with no other visible opportunities they absolutely failed to reckon with the cultural impact of taking away the very source of people’s sense of identity.
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