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Re: Claude Code SDK

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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.…

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Re: Claude Code SDK

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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’m the same. I love that writing allows you to think while typing so that you can review and revise your thoughts before letting them out in the world.

And don’t get me started on video vs text for learning purely non-physical stuff like programming…

Re: Claude Code SDK

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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.

Say what you will, but this would have the wonderful side effect of forcing people who write JIRA tickets to actually think through and clearly express what it is they want built.

Re: Claude Code SDK

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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.

It totally is!

I bias a bit to wanting the agent to be a pluggable component into a flow I own, rather than a platform in a box.

It'll be interesting to see where the different value props/use cases of a Delvin/v0 vs a Codex Cloud vs Claude Code/Codex CLI vs Cursor land.

Re: Claude Code SDK

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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…

Windsurf is about to lose its ability to use other models since it got bought by OpenAI. Still very cool tool though!

Re: Claude Code SDK

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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…

Who cares about sentiment when you can just look at a proxy for usage: https://openrouter.ai/rankings

EDIT: Specifically: https://openrouter.ai/rankings/programming?view=week

Re: Claude Code SDK

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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…

played around with connecting https://github.com/eyaltoledano/claude-task-master via mcp to create a prd which basically replaces the ticket grooming process and then executing it with claude code creating a branch named like the ticket and pushing after having created the unit tests and constant linting.

Re: Claude Code SDK

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Aider has had support for Python and shell scripting [0] for a long time. I made a screencast [1] recently that included ad-hoc bash scripting aider as part of the effort to add support for 130 new programming languages. It may give a flavor for how powerful this approach can be.

[0] https://aider.chat/docs/scripting.html

[1] https://aider.chat/docs/recordings/tree-sitter-language-pack...

Re: Claude Code SDK

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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.

Can you clarify what you mean here? Are you saying I can use Claude Code for a flat rate of $100/month? What are the limits? What if I use more than $100 worth of Code in a month? Their website doesn't seem to make it clear.

Edit:

Found the answer to my own questions

> Send approximately 50-200 prompts with Claude Code every 5 hours[1]

Damn. That's a really good deal

[1] https://support.anthropic.com/en/articles/11145838-using-cla...

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