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Re: Claude Code SDK

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Post by ChadMoran »

woah wrote: post #17

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 famil…

Other than the command/arguments there isn't much locking you in. It's just input/output. Swap it out for something else or simply wrap it. There's not much going on here.

Re: Claude Code SDK

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Post by Roritharr »

jdmoreira wrote: post #22
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…

Not sure about that golden end state. Mine would be being in a room surround by screens with AI agents coding, designing, testing, etc. I would be there in the center giving guidance, direction, applying taste, etc… All conversational, wouldn’t need to touch the keyboard 99% of the time. That's what I want and look forward one day

Is this a me thing, or a millenial thing?

I hate using voice for anything. I hate getting voice messages, I hate creating them. I get cold sweats just thinking about having to direct 10 AI Agents via voice. Just give me a keyboard and a bunch of screens, thanks.

Re: Claude Code SDK

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Post by big_toast »

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.…

I’ve really enjoyed the recent latent space podcasts. I don’t think there is any person†/podcast (or perhaps other content) approaching your general output while maintaining the high SNR. I am continually amazed at the volume and value of public work you’re producing over the last (half?) decade while still growing various businesses. I hope others can find similar productivity gradients. I know you roughly share what works for you but it is not so easy to reproduce.

† simonw, gwern

Re: Claude Code SDK

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Post by sync »

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…

Anthropic also announced something along those lines today as well, in beta: https://docs.anthropic.com/en/docs/claude-code/github-action...

Re: Claude Code SDK

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Post by thesurlydev »

philosophty wrote: post #19
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?

Agree. That would be a great insight as well as what type of activities cause the explosion in spend.

Re: Claude Code SDK

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Post by fallinditch »

Sajarin wrote: post #12
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. Defi…

I'm using Windsurf IDE so have all the main models available. Mainly doing Python, JS, HTML, CSS, some Go. I have found Claude 3.7 outperforms Gemini 2.5 and ChatGPT 4.1, 4o, Deepseek, etc, for my work in most cases.

I suspect that I experience some performance throttling with Gemini 2.5 in my Windsurf setup because it's just not as good as anecdotal reports by others, and benchmarks.

I also seem to run up against a kind of LLM laziness sometimes when they seemingly can't be bothered to answer a challenging prompt ... a consequence of load balancing in action perhaps.

Re: Claude Code SDK

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Post by bionhoward »

> You may not access or use, or help another person to access or use, our Services in the following ways: > 2. To develop any products or services that compete with our Services, including to develop or train any artificial intelligence or machine learning algorithms or models or resell the Services.

Can somebody please tell me what software product or service doesn’t compete with general intelligence?

Imagine selling intelligence with a legal term that, under strict interpretation, says you’re not allowed to use it for anything.

Is it so vague it’s unenforceable?

How do we own the output if we can’t use it to compete with a general intelligence?

Is it just a “lol nerd no one cares about the legal terms” thing? If no one cares then why would they have a blanket prohibition on using the service ?

We’re supposed to accept liability to lose a lawsuit just to accept their slop? So many questions

Re: Claude Code SDK

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Post by Wowfunhappy »

Roritharr wrote: post #32
jdmoreira wrote: post #22

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Not sure about that golden end state. Mine would be being in a room surround by screens with AI agents coding, designing, testing, etc. I would be there in the center giving guidance, direction, applying taste, etc… All conversational, wouldn’t need to touch the keyboard 99% of the time. That's what I want and look forward one day

Is this a me thing, or a millenial thing? I hate using voice for anything. I hate getting voice messages, I hate creating them. I get cold sweats just thinking about having to direct 10 AI Agents via voice. Just give me a keyboard and a bunch of screens, thanks.

Voicemail universally sucks. However, when you're having a synchronous conversation with actual people, do you prefer to do everything via IM, or would you prefer a phone call?

Re: Claude Code SDK

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Post by ramesh31 »

virgildotcodes wrote: post #27
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. Cursor, windsurf, etc, are dead ends in that sense as they are local editors, and can not be in CI. Isn’t that effectively the promise of the most recently released OpenAI codex? From the reviews I’ve been able to find so far though, quality of output is ehh.

Thats the promise. The reality is that it's just a subpar version of Claude Code which doesn't support MCP.

Re: Claude Code SDK

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Post by jdmoreira »

Roritharr wrote: post #32
jdmoreira wrote: post #22

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Not sure about that golden end state. Mine would be being in a room surround by screens with AI agents coding, designing, testing, etc. I would be there in the center giving guidance, direction, applying taste, etc… All conversational, wouldn’t need to touch the keyboard 99% of the time. That's what I want and look forward one day

Is this a me thing, or a millenial thing? I hate using voice for anything. I hate getting voice messages, I hate creating them. I get cold sweats just thinking about having to direct 10 AI Agents via voice. Just give me a keyboard and a bunch of screens, thanks.

I don't know. I'm 40 but I do like pair programming so…
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