Claude Code sucks but is still useful: experiences maintaining Julia’s SciML scientific computing infrastructure

So it’s pretty public that for about a month now I’ve had 32 processes setup on one of the 64 core 128gb RAM servers to just ssh in, tmux to a window, and tell it to slam on some things non-stop. And it has been really successful!… with the right definition of success. Let me explain.

This is a repost of the long post in the Julia Discourse.

* How is Claude being used, and how useful has it been?

j-bowhay, post:1, topic:131009

I think the first will answer the others. Basically, Claude is really not smart at all. There is no extensive algorithm implementation that has come from AI. I know some GSoCers and SciML Small Grants applicants have used AI (many without disclosure) but no wholesale usage has … READ MORE