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I've been using Claude Code for a couple of days
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Re: I've been using Claude Code for a couple of days
#92I must be the dumbest "prompt engineer" ever, each time I ask an AI to fix or even worse, create something from scratch it rarely returns the right answer and when asked for modification it will struggle even more. All the incredible performance and success stories always come from these Twitter posts, I do find value in asking simple but tedious task like a small refactor or generate commands, but this "AI takes the…
I've done code interviews with hundreds of candidates recently. The difference between those who are using LLMs effectively and those who are not is stark. I honestly think engineers who think like OP are going to get left behind. Take a weekend to work on getting your head around this by building a personal project (or learning a new language). A few things to note: a) Use the "Projects" feature in Claude web. The c…
Hundreds of candidates? That's significant if not an exaggeration. What are the stark differences you have seen? Did you inquire about the candidate's use of language models?
Re: I've been using Claude Code for a couple of days
#93I’m sorry what is happening with this paragraph: > As long as the bank authorizations keep coming through, it will push on bug fixes until they're deployed in production, and then start scanning through the user logs to see how well it's doing. I enjoy using these tools. They help me in my work. But the continual hype makes the discussion around them impossible to be genuine. So I ask, genuinely, did I miss the confi…
I haven't got to trying claude code yet, but absolutely with cursor and windsurf you can have the agent be reading the output of what it writes and runs and it can fix things it sees. You can also have it review code. It also help some times to have it review in a fresh chat with less context. I really think a lot of people on HN are not really pushing on everything that is available. Its magic for me but I spend a l…
I’m going to keep at it, because I was trained as an SRE, not a developer and have lots of ideas for side projects that have thus far taken a long time to get going, but I’ve been struggling, it sort of quickly gets into these infinite loop situations where it can’t seem it can’t seem to fix a feature and goes back and forth between multiple non working states. CSS layouts but even basic stuff like having the right web socket routes.
We’ll see, maybe my whole approach is wrong, I’m going to try with a simpler project, my first approach was relatively complex.
Re: I've been using Claude Code for a couple of days
#94I must be the dumbest "prompt engineer" ever, each time I ask an AI to fix or even worse, create something from scratch it rarely returns the right answer and when asked for modification it will struggle even more. All the incredible performance and success stories always come from these Twitter posts, I do find value in asking simple but tedious task like a small refactor or generate commands, but this "AI takes the…
LLM are replacing Google for me when coding. When I want to get something implemented, let's say make a REST request in Java using a specific client library, I previously used Google to find example of using that library.
Google has gotten worse (or the internet has more garbage) so finding code an example is more difficult than it used to be. Now I ask an LLM for an example. Sometimes I have to ask for a refinement and and usually something is broken in the example but it takes less time to get the LLM produced example to work than it does to find a functional example using Google.
But the LLM has only replaced my previous Google usage, I didn't expect Google to develop my applications and I don't with LLMs.
Re: I've been using Claude Code for a couple of days
#95I’m sorry what is happening with this paragraph: > As long as the bank authorizations keep coming through, it will push on bug fixes until they're deployed in production, and then start scanning through the user logs to see how well it's doing. I enjoy using these tools. They help me in my work. But the continual hype makes the discussion around them impossible to be genuine. So I ask, genuinely, did I miss the confi…
I haven't got to trying claude code yet, but absolutely with cursor and windsurf you can have the agent be reading the output of what it writes and runs and it can fix things it sees. You can also have it review code. It also help some times to have it review in a fresh chat with less context. I really think a lot of people on HN are not really pushing on everything that is available. Its magic for me but I spend a l…
Oh ok this makes sense. Because of the ordering of the sentences I read it as “it pushes the code to production and then monitors it in production”.
I have found that prompting something like “do X and write tests to confirm it works” works well for what you’re describing. Or even you write the tests then it’ll iterate to make sure they pass.
Re: I've been using Claude Code for a couple of days
#96Earlier quoted context omitted.
First it was Facebook, now it’s Twitter / X. What you’re essentially saying is - “I can’t take a platform seriously where many / most of the people disagree with me.”
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I've noticed that the morons came first. Facebook will surface them given a sufficiently large comment thread. There's no escaping them.
Re: I've been using Claude Code for a couple of days
#97I must be the dumbest "prompt engineer" ever, each time I ask an AI to fix or even worse, create something from scratch it rarely returns the right answer and when asked for modification it will struggle even more. All the incredible performance and success stories always come from these Twitter posts, I do find value in asking simple but tedious task like a small refactor or generate commands, but this "AI takes the…
Funny, because I have the same feeling toward the "I never get it to work" comments. You don't need any special prompt engineering so that's definitely not it.
Re: I've been using Claude Code for a couple of days
#98I must be the dumbest "prompt engineer" ever, each time I ask an AI to fix or even worse, create something from scratch it rarely returns the right answer and when asked for modification it will struggle even more. All the incredible performance and success stories always come from these Twitter posts, I do find value in asking simple but tedious task like a small refactor or generate commands, but this "AI takes the…
What I've noticed from my extensive use over the past couple weeks has been Claude Code really sucks at thinking things through enough to understand the second and third order consequences of the code that it's writing. That said, it's easy enough to work around its deficiencies by using a model with extended thinking (Grok, GPT4.5, Sonnet 3.7 in thinking mode) to write prompts for it and use Claude Code as basically…
This has been my experience as well. Breaking problems into smaller problems where you can easily verify correctness works much better than having it solve the whole problem on its own.
Re: I've been using Claude Code for a couple of days
#99A single tweet with lots of analogy, with no screenshot/screen recording/code examples whatsoever. These are just words. Are we just discussing programming based on vibe?
What, someone cannot utter an opinion anymore?
Re: I've been using Claude Code for a couple of days
#100Earlier quoted context omitted.
Feels like you shouldn't be using $20 of credits to produce non functional code. I use Aider chat with Claude and my sessions are much smaller. You need to ask it much smaller tasks and work incrementally.
If you already have a moderately complex code base it starts making mistakes.
Depends a lot on what context you feed it. If you have decent internal documentation and can feed it the right files, it tends to do quite well for me, often needing corrections or style fixes. To use it most effectively, you have to know the vast majority of the code that you want it to write ahead of time. It saves time typing, looking up methods, wrangling APIs appropriately, and sometimes it surprises me by working around an edge case or writing an appropriate abstraction that I hadn't considered, but most of the time, it's mostly saving time on typing and tedious gluing, even with the corrections I make and hallucinations I have to correct.
Maybe it will be at some point, but it is not yet a reasonable substitute for having to think, plan, or understand the code you are working with and what needs to be done. It's also still more expensive than it needs to be to use on my free time (I'm happy to burn company money on it at work, though).