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Comment #49227100
An agent will read your comment and take it as a challenge to show something can go wrong. Thanks for prompt injecting, mate. /s
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Comment #49214082
This will have significant consequences for the military.
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Comment #48879847
This is beautiful, I can't deny that. But the claim that Claude Code is a fixed set of tools is quite wrong. Claude Code regularly generates new code to carry out tasks, and you ca…
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Comment #48192307
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Comment #47981490
Much of the world believed in geocentrism for a very long time, yet we've known better for a long time now. Currently, this "Ptolemaic" idea of human intelligence being the center …
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Comment #47863026
This is awesome. Thank you for pointing out streaming JSON input and output, I'll definitely be taking a look at that.
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Comment #47853462
Basically, as long as you are using an Anthropic library or tool, you can use your OAuth credentials. For example, you can use the Claude Agent SDK with your OAuth credentials. Thi…
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Comment #47791316
The second paragraph sounds eerily AI-generated.
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Comment #47791237
1. playwright-cli for exploration and ad-hoc scraping, in order to determine what works. 2. playwright code generation based on 1, which captures a repeatable workflow 3. agent ski…
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Comment #47246426
"Test harness is everything, if you don't have a way of validating the work, the loop will go stray" This is the most important piece to using AI coding agents. They are truly magi…
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Comment #46891361
"To come back to my earlier comment, though, my main approach makes sense in this context. I let Opus do the abstract thinking, and then OpenAI's models handle the fine details." V…
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Comment #46876411
Thanks, I'll try those out. I've used Codex CLI itself on a few small projects as well, and fired it up on a feature branch where I had it implement the same feature that Claude Co…
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Comment #46875372
Claude Opus 4.5 by far is the most capable development model. I've been using it mainly via Claude Code, and with Cursor. I agree anticompetitive behavior is bad, but the productiv…
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Comment #46737321
Exactly. We're headed for a discontinuity, not an inflection point.
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Comment #46447572
Hey HN! In 2025, I've spent more time than ever conversing with AI coding agents, particularly Claude Code. These conversations are an intimate look into how we think and solve pro…
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Comment #46444411
Exactly. Prompt + Tool + External Dataset (API, file, database, web page, image) is an extremely powerful capability.
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Comment #46207855
But the AI coding agent can then ask you follow up questions, consider angles you may not have, and generate other artifacts like documentation, data generation and migration scrip…
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Comment #45850596
1000% agree.
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Comment #45266811
I expect less time spent on boilerplate and documentation, and more time spent on iterating, experimenting, and increasing customer satisfaction. I also wouldn't accept "I don't kn…
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Comment #45063314
Add LLM-powered chat to your app. Translate English into executable JSON commands using just TypeScript, Node, and OpenAI—no frameworks! Start extremely simple and get better at pr…
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Comment #45051887
Exactly. This is precisely what I do.
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Comment #43102781
That is funny, because I was a Java developer for many years, then Scala for a few years, and these days I mainly write Python, but the last thing I go for is creating a class. Tha…
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Comment #43014649
I blog with stone tablets.