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Claude AI generates clever code for distinguishing scanner input

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A Reddit user shared a piece of code generated by Claude that they found particularly clever. The code snippet, designed to distinguish between human typing and barcode scanner input, uses a time-based logic to differentiate the two. By setting a threshold of 60 milliseconds between keystrokes, the code can identify rapid inputs characteristic of a scanner, allowing the application to process them as codes while ignoring slower, human-paced typing. AI

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Claude AI generates clever code for distinguishing scanner input

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  1. r/ClaudeAI TIER_2 English(EN) · /u/GodRaine ·

    I've spent the last ten months building a project with Claude, and tonight I asked it to show me a bit of the code that he thinks is very clever and he's proud of

    <!-- SC_OFF --><div class="md"><p><code>I'll pick the barcode scanner listener, src/hooks/useLabelScan.ts. It's about 50 lines, and one of them does nearly all the work:</code></p> <p><code>// A scanner's keys come well under this apart; a person's, well over.</code></p> <p><code…

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