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Developer hired to rebuild an app prototyped with Claude
Original: A friend contracted me to create an application for him. He's got a prototype version that he did through Claude. I wasn
A freelance developer has been contracted by a friend to build an application, and the friend already has a working prototype made using Claude, the AI assistant. The developer says they are deliberately avoiding looking at the prototype or its internals, preferring to think through the problem independently before consulting existing ideas that might bias their approach.
Why now: It touches on the ongoing debate about how AI-generated prototypes fit into professional software development workflows.
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- A friend contracted me to create an application for him. He's got a prototype version that he did through Claude. I wasn't trying to look at it or its internals because I want to think through the problem myself before consulting extant ideas that may color my thinking too… · jeremiah@micro.glasshoundcomputing.com · 5
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