My Dinner With AI

Ron Gilbert's often incoherent and bitter ramblings about the Game Industry

Grumpy Gamer
@grumpygamer I keep trying this stuff every few weeks and have zero success every time. Even just initialising a project is a challenge. I just don't get it.

@JetSetIlly which tools are you trying? As someone who has never failed to use Claude Code for a programming task, I find a zero success rate really hard to believe.

I know how to write the software manually. I’ve done it for almost 40 years! But AI has changed what I get to focus on. I can worry about the finicky details of how something works without worrying quite so much about all the boilerplate that enables my choices.

@sdjmchattie Three attempts at initialising a project. All three failures.

@JetSetIlly ok fair dos. Though I see you’re using glm-4.7-flash for the model which Anthropic haven’t optimised Claude Code to work with so it could be an incompatibility. And being a local model, it could be a bit weak compared to real Claude models.

Have you tried your local model with OpenCode? https://opencode.ai

It’s more suited to non-proprietary models.

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@sdjmchattie I installed it and typed "/init". Another failure.

@sdjmchattie I guess this stuff just isn't for me. But that's okay because I like programming.

If I were a painter, I wouldn't stop painting just because somebody invented the camera obscura.