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Claude Code SDK

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Re: Claude Code SDK

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Post by andrewstuart »

d_watt wrote: post #8

The way Claude Code is going is exactly what I want out of a agentic coding tool with this "unix toolish" philosophy. I've been using Claude code since the initial public preview release, and have seen the direction over time. The "golden" end state of coding agents is that you give it a Feature Request (EG Jira ticket), and it gives you a PR to review and give feedback on. Cursor, windsurf, etc, are dead ends in tha…

> The "golden" end state of coding agents is that you give it a Feature Request (EG Jira ticket), and it gives you a PR to review and give feedback on.

I see your point but in the other hand how depressing to be left only with the most soul crushing part of software entering - the Jira ticket.

Re: Claude Code SDK

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Post by Sajarin »

andrewstuart wrote: post #2

Claude has been left in the dust by Gemini with its million token session and ability to upload a zip file of my entire code base.

I wonder if anyone has done an analysis on the HN user sentiment on the varying AI models over time. I'd be curious to see what that looks like. Increasingly, I'm seeing more and more people talk positively about Gemini and Google (and having used Gemini recently, I align with that sentiment)

I think Bard (lol) and Gemini got a late start and so lots of folks dismissed it but I feel like they've fully caught up. Definitely excited to see what Gemini 3 vs GPT-5 vs Claude 4 looks like!

Re: Claude Code SDK

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Post by ipsum2 »

d_watt wrote: post #9
ipsum2 wrote: post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Maybe I'm holding it wrong, but I can easily spend $20+ using Claude Code for 2 hours. I've stopped using it because it was too expensive for my personal projects.

Claude max plan has Claude code bundled into the price. $100/month isn't cheap, but the RoI is there for me personally.

Thanks, I was just commenting on "- anthropic employees, with unlimited claude, average to $6/day of usage".

Re: Claude Code SDK

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Post by ipsum2 »

jasonjmcghee wrote: post #10
ipsum2 wrote: post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Maybe I'm holding it wrong, but I can easily spend $20+ using Claude Code for 2 hours. I've stopped using it because it was too expensive for my personal projects.

I briefly commented on how I approach cost control before, if useful. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43737060

Great advice, thanks.

Re: Claude Code SDK

#15

Post by d_watt »

andrewstuart wrote: post #11
d_watt wrote: post #8

The way Claude Code is going is exactly what I want out of a agentic coding tool with this "unix toolish" philosophy. I've been using Claude code since the initial public preview release, and have seen the direction over time. The "golden" end state of coding agents is that you give it a Feature Request (EG Jira ticket), and it gives you a PR to review and give feedback on. Cursor, windsurf, etc, are dead ends in tha…

> The "golden" end state of coding agents is that you give it a Feature Request (EG Jira ticket), and it gives you a PR to review and give feedback on. I see your point but in the other hand how depressing to be left only with the most soul crushing part of software entering - the Jira ticket.

I personally find figuring out what the product should be is the fun part. There still a need for architecting a plan, but the actual act of writing code isn't what gives me personal joy, it's the building of something new.

I understand the craft of code itself is what some people love though!

Re: Claude Code SDK

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Post by danenania »

barefootford wrote: post #4
andrewstuart wrote: post #2

Claude has been left in the dust by Gemini with its million token session and ability to upload a zip file of my entire code base.

and then get the honor of copy and pasting all of the changes afterward?

You can try my project Plandex[1] to use Gemini in a way that's comparable to Claude Code without copy-pasting. By default, it combines models from the major providers—Anthropic, OpenAI, and Google.

The default planning/coding models are still Sonnet 3.7 for context size under 200k, but you can switch to Gemini with `\set-model gemini-preview`.

1 - https://github.com/plandex-ai/plandex

Re: Claude Code SDK

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Post by woah »

If I was making an AI code assistant, the last thing I would do is to lock it in to a particular foundation model provider.

The only possible way for this to be a successful offering is if we have just now reached a plateau of model effectiveness and all foundation models will now trend towards having almost identical performance and capabilities, with integrators choosing based on small niceties, like having a familiar SDK.

Re: Claude Code SDK

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Post by philosophty »

swyx wrote: post #3

more context from the claude code team: http://latent.space/p/claude-code you can skim the transcript but some personal highlights: - anthropic employees, with unlimited claude, average to $6/day of usage - headless claude code as a "linux" utility that you use everywhere in CI is pretty compelling - claude code as a user extensible platform - future roadmap of claude code: sandboxing, branching, planning - sonnet 3.…

"- anthropic employees, with unlimited claude, average to $6/day of usage"

From the link:

"Apparently, there are some engineers inside of Anthropic that have spent >$1,000 in one day!"

The question is what is the P50, P75, and P95 spend per employee?

Re: Claude Code SDK

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Post by ttcbj »

d_watt wrote: post #9
ipsum2 wrote: post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Maybe I'm holding it wrong, but I can easily spend $20+ using Claude Code for 2 hours. I've stopped using it because it was too expensive for my personal projects.

Claude max plan has Claude code bundled into the price. $100/month isn't cheap, but the RoI is there for me personally.

Thanks, this is helpful. I tried Claude Code, and thought it had a lot of potential, but I was on track to spend at least $20/day.

For a tool that radically increases productivity (say 2x), I think it could still make sense for a VC funded startup or an established company (even $100/day or $36k/year is still a lot less than hiring another developer). But for a side project or bootstrap effort, $36k/year obviously significantly increases cash expenses. $100/month does not, however.

So, I'm going to go back and upgrade to Max and try it again. If that keeps my costs to $100/month, thats a really different value proposition.

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