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Re: Show HN: Continuous Claude – run Claude Code in a loop

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Post by teaearlgraycold »

cortesoft wrote: post #46
teaearlgraycold wrote: post #44

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Yes, but the act of writing code is an important part of figuring out what you need. So I’m left wondering how much of a prefect the AI can actually help with. To be clear I do use AI for some code gen. But I try to use it less than I see others use it.

Eh, I think my decades of experience writing my own code was necessary for me to develop the skills to be able to precisely tell the AI what to build, but I don't think I need to (always) write new code to know how to know what I need. Now, if the thing I am building requires a technology I am not familiar with, I will spend some time reading and writing some simple test code to learn how it works, but once I underst…

It’s not just about new tech. It’s about new businesses and projects.

Re: Show HN: Continuous Claude – run Claude Code in a loop

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Post by tinodb »

jes5199 wrote: post #47
jerezzprime wrote: post #43

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Have you tried GitHub Copilot? I've been trying it out directly in my PRs like you suggest. Works pretty well sometimes.

I find that ChatGPT’s Codex reviews - which can also be set up to happen automatically on all PRs - seem smarter than Copilot’s, and make fewer mistakes. But these things change fast, maybe Copilot caught up and I didn’t notice

No codex catches genuine bugs here that multiple reviewers would have overlooked, whilst copilot only comes with nitpicks. And codex does none of those, which is also great.

Re: Show HN: Continuous Claude – run Claude Code in a loop

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Post by jdc0589 »

cortesoft wrote: post #45
jdc0589 wrote: post #15

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im not saying OP did this, but I've actually had AI spit out some pretty stellar bash scripts, surprisingly

The emojis give it away

I got a couple bug reports years ago on https://github.com/jdavisclark/jsformat for not dealing unicode emojis correctly when used in variable names in javascript. people are weird.

Re: Show HN: Continuous Claude – run Claude Code in a loop

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Post by johntash »

anandchowdhary wrote: post #58
cortesoft wrote: post #45

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The emojis give it away

Nah - as you'll see from my work from a pre-coding agents age, I like emoji :) Here are receipts some from 2020: - https://github.com/AnandChowdhary/bsc-thesis - https://github.com/AnandChowdhary/slack-netlify-trigger - https://github.com/AnandChowdhary/analytics-icons

LLMs had to learn where to use emoji from somewhere, now we know who to blame ;)

Re: Show HN: Continuous Claude – run Claude Code in a loop

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Post by krschacht »

simonw wrote: post #10
apapalns wrote: post #5

> codebase with hundreds of thousands of lines of code and go from 0% to 80%+ coverage in the next few weeks I had a coworker do this with windsurf + manual driving awhile back and it was an absolute mess. Awful tests that were unmaintainable and next to useless (too much mocking, testing that the code “works the way it was written”, etc.). Writing a useful test suite is one of the most important parts of a codebase…

I find coding agents can produce very high quality tests if and only if you give them detailed guidance and good starting examples. Ask a coding agent to build tests for a project that has none and you're likely to get all sorts of messy mocks and tests that exercise internals when really you want them to exercise the top level public API of the project. Give them just a few starting examples that demonstrate how to…

I find most human agents can only produce high quality tests if you give them detailed guidance and good starting examples. :)
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