Jeff - I totally agree. I've had times where I got GREAT success with Claude. And, other times - it makes a ton of errors. One day - I went back and forth about 17 times before finally some success - and, it was getting me SO Frustrated - I wanted to just give up!
But, other times - I get some great results. We are now using this QuestPDF as a 3D party library for building reports in C#. Today, I wanted to try something new, and I was not sure if Quest PDF could make it happen - basically - doing a kind of Watermark on certain reports. So - it would be big Red text that goes directly on top of part of the report. I asked Claude about doing Watermarks in using QuestPDF - he said yes - and gave me a bunch of code. But, one line of the C# code was doing the Opaque option - which was simply Not valid. I pushed back, he gave me updated code - and that I Zipped right along to continue the implementation (like positioning of that watermark text and stuff like that). So, yeah - that worked out well! -K ________________________________ From: ProFox <[email protected]> on behalf of Jeff Roberts <[email protected]> Sent: Thursday, July 3, 2025 3:14 PM To: ProFox Email List <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [NF] Thoughts on AI Great post! Most of my experience has been similar. It seems the bigger and/or more complicated the problem you throw at it at one time, the more likely it is to head off the rails. I would like to say don't delegate anything to it that you wouldn't delegate to a junior developer or contractor, but I think that is giving it too much credit. If you can delegate little pieces to it and manage the big picture on your side, it works well most of the time. But from time to time, it spits out gibberish for no good reason at all. At the very least, it has gotten my curiosity up and motivated me to work on more pet projects. On Thu, Jul 3, 2025 at 1:54 PM Ed Leafe <[email protected]> wrote: > On Jul 3, 2025, at 13:44, Richard Kaye <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > I cannot have it upon my conscience that I was the root cause for the > Great Profox Message Debacle of '25. > > You weren't the root cause of the debacle; you were the inspiration for > the blog post! > > > -- Ed Leafe > > [excessive quoting removed by server] _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] Subscription Maintenance: https://mail.leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: https://mail.leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: https://leafe.com/archives This message: https://leafe.com/archives/byMID/camandq_kyd79qns0kywchlnlhzj2edfwcltdqlhfeozkqao...@mail.gmail.com ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious. _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] Subscription Maintenance: https://mail.leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: https://mail.leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: https://leafe.com/archives This message: https://leafe.com/archives/byMID/by5pr13mb3843bcbd2d449ae9fef07d88c3...@by5pr13mb3843.namprd13.prod.outlook.com ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
