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Every time I've asked Claude (on the web interface) questions about Claude Code, it gives me really unhelpful responses<p>A week or two ago I asked about 329 errors I was getting, and it pointed me to a non-existent status page. When it finally found the right status page, I asked it to read it...
Happy Thanksgiving! For context, the only time I've been exposed to "good quality code" was when I interned at a YC startup. I am creating my own startup at the moment. I keep hearing that LLMs create "bad quality code" and wondered what that meant? I've been trying to ...