2200 lines. Half of them unit tests I would probably have been too lazy to write myself even for a "more real" project. Yes, I consider $20 cheap for that, considering:
1. It’s a learning experience
2. Looking at the chat transcripts, many of those dollars are burned for stupid reasons (Claude often fails with the insertLines/replaceLines functions and break files due to miss-by-1 offset) that are probably fixable
3. Remember that Claude started from a really rudimentary base with few tools — the bootstrapping was especially inefficient
Next experiment will be on an existing codebase, but that’s probably for next weekend.
1. It’s a learning experience 2. Looking at the chat transcripts, many of those dollars are burned for stupid reasons (Claude often fails with the insertLines/replaceLines functions and break files due to miss-by-1 offset) that are probably fixable 3. Remember that Claude started from a really rudimentary base with few tools — the bootstrapping was especially inefficient
Next experiment will be on an existing codebase, but that’s probably for next weekend.