I continue to be astounded at how good Claude Code is at writing code and cutting down the time it takes to implement solutions.

The thing is though… you REALLY have to understand what it’s doing and be ready to steer it when things go sideways. This interaction I just had made me laugh but also made me realize how dangerous this can be as people lose the ability to rely on experience and have to depend on AI to get the right answers.

I am upgrading our code to use .NET 10 from the previous .NET 8. I asked Claude to update some config files for me, and here’s how it went.

There’s more to it, but I’m only sharing the relevant bits to the discussion.

It looks legit, right? But wait… what if it isn’t? I figured I should at least ask where those values came from.

What the heck, Claude!! Ok then… I might as well ask…

I mean… credit where it’s due… at least it was honest about it!