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Re: Claude 3.7 Sonnet and Claude Code

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Post by Uninen »

Uninen wrote: post #284

I'm somewhat impressed from the very first interaction I had with Claude 3.7 Sonnet. I prompted it to find a problem in my codebase where a CloudFlare pages function would return 500 + nonsensical error and an empty response in prod. Tried to figure this out all Friday. It was super annoying to fix as there's no way to add more logging or have any visibility to the issue as the script died before outputting anything.…

One thing about the reply gives away why Claude is still basically clueless about Actual Thinking; it suggested me to move the HTML sanitization to the frontend. It's in the CF function because it would be trivial to bypass it in the frontend making it easy to post literally anything in the db. Even a junior developer would understand this.

Re: Claude 3.7 Sonnet and Claude Code

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Post by eterm »

ilrwbwrkhv wrote: post #99
TriangleEdge wrote: post #94

This AI race is happening so fast. Seems like it to me anyway. As a software developer/engineer I am worried about my job prospects.. time will tell. I am wondering what will happen to the west coast housing bubbles once software engineers lose their high price tags. I guess the next wave of knowledge workers will move in and take their place?

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The threat is not autocomplete, it's translation.

"translating" requirements into code is what most developers' jobs are.

So "just" translation is a threat to job security of developers.

Re: Claude 3.7 Sonnet and Claude Code

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Post by bilbo0s »

fallinditch wrote: post #171
TriangleEdge wrote: post #94

This AI race is happening so fast. Seems like it to me anyway. As a software developer/engineer I am worried about my job prospects.. time will tell. I am wondering what will happen to the west coast housing bubbles once software engineers lose their high price tags. I guess the next wave of knowledge workers will move in and take their place?

My guess is that, yes, the software development job market is being massively disrupted, but there are things you can do to come out on top: * Learn more of the entire stack, especially the backend, and devops. * Embrace the increased productivity on offer to ship more products, solo projects, etc * Be highly selective as far as possible in how you spend your productive time: being uber-effective can mean thinking an…

This is really good advice.

Underrated comment.

Re: Claude 3.7 Sonnet and Claude Code

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Post by pcwelder »

Claude code terminal ux feels great.

It has some well thought out features like restarting conversation with compressed context.

Great work guys.

However, I did get stuck when I asked it to run `npm create vite@latest todo-app` because it needs interactivity.

Re: Claude 3.7 Sonnet and Claude Code

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Post by OsrsNeedsf2P »

meetpateltech wrote: post #158

When you ask: 'How many r's are in strawberry?' Claude 3.7 Sonnet generates a response in a fun and cool way with React code and a preview in Artifacts check out some examples: [1] https://claude.ai/share/d565f5a8-136b-41a4-b365-bfb4f4400df5 [2] https://claude.ai/share/a817ac87-c98b-4ab0-8160-feefd7f798e8

This test has always been so stupid since models work at the token level. Claude 3.5 already 5xs your frontend dev speed but people still say "hurr durr it can't count strawberry" as if that's a useful problem

Re: Claude 3.7 Sonnet and Claude Code

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Post by koakuma-chan »

trekkie1024 wrote: post #275
koakuma-chan wrote: post #263

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It also produces terrible code even though it's supposed to be good for front-end development.

Could you share an example?

TLDR: told it to implement a grid view as an alternative to the existing list view, and specifically told it to DRY the code. What it did? Copy and pasted the list view implementation (definitely not DRY), and tried to make it a grid, and even though it is a grid, it looks terrible (https://i.imgur.com/fJiSjq4.png).

I don't understand how people use cursor and all that other shit when it cannot follow such simple instructions.

Prompt (Claude Code): Implement an alternative grid view that the users can switch to. Follow the existing code style with empty comments and line breaks for improved code readability. Use snake case. DRY the code, avoid repetition of code. Do not change the font size or weight.

Output: https://github.com/mayo-dayo/app/compare/0.4...claude-code-g...

Re: Claude 3.7 Sonnet and Claude Code

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Post by bionhoward »

throwup238 wrote: post #195
bicx wrote: post #141

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Claude 3.5 has been fantastic in Windsurf. However, it does cost credits. DeepSeek V3 is now available in Windsurf at zero credit cost, which was a major shift for the company. Great to have variable options either way. I’d highly recommend anyone check out Windsurf’s Cascade feature for agentic-like code writing and exploration. It helped save me many hours in understanding new codebases and tracing data flows.

DeepSeek’s models are vastly overhyped (FWIW I have access to them via Kagi, Windsurf, and Cursor - I regularly run the same tests on all three). I don’t think it matters that V3 is free when even R1 with its extra compute budget is inferior to Claude 3.5 by a large margin - at least in my experience in both bog standard React/Svelte frontend code and more complex C++/Qt components. After only half an hour of using C…

The big difference is DeepSeek R1 has a permissive license whereas Claude has a nightmare “closed output” customer noncompete license which makes it unusable for work unless you accept not competing with your intelligence supplier, which sounds dumb

Re: Claude 3.7 Sonnet and Claude Code

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Post by danso »

bcherny wrote: post #91

Hi everyone! Boris from the Claude Code team here. @eschluntz, @catherinewu, @wolffiex, @bdr and I will be around for the next hour or so and we'll do our best to answer your questions about the product.

Been a long time casual — i.e. happy to fix my code by asking questions and copy/pasting individual snippets via the chat interface. Decided to give the `claude` terminal tool a run and have to admit it looks like a fantastic tool.

Haven't tried to build a modern JS web app in years — it took the claude tool just a few minutes of prompting to convert and refactor an old clunky tool into a proper project structure, and using svelte and vite and tailwind (which I haven't built with before). Trying to learn how to even scaffold a modern app has felt daunting and this eliminates 99% of that friction.

One funny quirk: I asked it to build a test suite (I know zilch about JS testing frameworks, so it picked vitest for me) for the newly refactored app. I noticed that 3 of the 20 tests failed and so I asked it to run vitest for itself and fix the failing things. 2 minutes later, and now 7 tests were failing...

Which is very funny to me, but also not a big deal. Again, it's such a chore to research test libs and then set things up to their conventions. That the claude tool built a very usable scaffold that I can then edit and iterate on is such a huge benefit by itself, I don't need (nor desire) the AI to be complete turnkey solution.

Re: Claude 3.7 Sonnet and Claude Code

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Post by g8oz »

Congratulations on the release! While team members are monitoring this discussion let me add that a relatively simple improvement I’d like to see in the UI is the ability to export a chat to markdown or XML.
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