It can even create a giant ball of mud ten times faster than you can.

A Luddite farm worker can assist in all those things, the question is, can it assist in a useful manner?

Not only it can but it does.

Just as I was reading this claude implemented a drag&drop of images out of SumatraPDF.

I asked:

> implement dragging out images; if we initiate drag action and the element under cursor is an image, allow dragging out the image and dropping on other applications

then it didn't quite work:

I'm testing it by trying to drop on a web application that accepts dropped images from file system but it doesn't work for that

Here's the result: https://github.com/sumatrapdfreader/sumatrapdf/commit/58d9a4...

It took me less than 15 mins, with testing.

Now you tell me:

1. Can a farm worker do that?

2. Can you improve this code in a meaningful way? If you were doing a code review, what would you ask to be changed?

3. How long would it take you to type this code?

Here's what I think: No. No. Much longer.

Why is it using a temp file? Is there really no more elegant way to pass around pointers to images than spilling to disk?

Of course there is, but slop generators be slopping

I admire you for what you've created wrt Sumatra. It's an excellent piece of software. But, as a matter of principle, I refuse to knowingly contribute to codebases using AI to generate code, including drive-by hints, suggestions, etc.

You, or rather Claude, are not the first to solve this problem and there are examples of better solutions out there. Since you're willing to let Claude regurgitate other people's work, feel free to look it up yourself or have Claude do it for you.

The code is really bad, so I'd have a lot to say about it in a review. Couldn't do it in 15 minutes, though.