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Claude Code Is My Computer

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Re: Claude Code Is My Computer

#81

I wanted to try Claude code but it's 200$ per month which is INR17000 per month. This was expensive even when I had a job. Now it feels like all this power is accessible only to the rich. When Geoffrey suggested [1] AI will increase wealth for rich he was not wrong. https://www.indiatoday.in/technology/news/story/ai-will-incr...

Zed.dev’s agent is comparable and includes 50 prompts per month free.

Re: Claude Code Is My Computer

#82
post #12

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What? It's nothing. I know people burning that in a day when paying on a per token basis.

That's still insane. We're talking "adding on another electricity and gas bill, your phone bill, your gym membership and internet + tv".

These are serious costs.

Re: Claude Code Is My Computer

#83
post #36

> The breakthrough moment came when I was migrating to a new Mac. Or just use Migration Assistant?

See the footnote. If you use this then iPhone Mirroring is broken on current macOS. And I need that for my next project.

(1) That doesn't affect everybody. (2) If it does affect you there's a simple fix. (3) The existence of one minor migration bug doesn't really justify avoiding the entire approach (consider: how many issue exist in your ad hoc migration?)

Re: Claude Code Is My Computer

#84

> Automate Content: Like this very post. I use Wispr Flow to talk with Claude, explain the topic and tell it to read my past blog posts to write in my style. This post is generated. Meaning, it wasn't written with the same aim towards truth and relevance that we assume writers have. It looks like writing, and fools readers into thinking it's writing. But it's just text. What's the purpose in reading it as opposed to…

So your argument is that only text written by hand can convey useful information? If it was dictated or transcribed, it's somehow lesser and unworthy of attention?

> So your argument is that only text written by hand can convey useful information?

No. I don't know where you got that from.

Re: Claude Code Is My Computer

#85

I am quite honestly baffled by all these posts. I'm not a hardcore skeptic, at least I don't think so, I have tried most of the vibe coding tools, and I regularly try new ones and continue using many; and I do NOT have the experience described in all these posts. So two possibilities come to mind: 1. I, somehow, use every single one of those tools wrong. 2. Or; you and the other people raving about Claude code are so…

Disclaimer: I haven't experimented with AI coding

Every time I see a post like yours, I see the reply saying "yeah you're using it wrong". I can't say either 1 or 2 is true, but if you saw the recent post[0] about cloudflare making an API entirely with Claude, it could be more of a case of not using the tools to their potential.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44159166

Re: Claude Code Is My Computer

#86
post #71

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It does seem weird for someone to expect others to spend their time fully reading something… when they also have access to the same tools and can just tell it to summarize it back.

That would be true for writing where the author typed a sentence and the LLM expanded it to multiple paragraphs. That is not what happened here: the author provided a lot more input than the finished article, and used the LLM to help crunch that down to as good a version as possible of the points there wanted to make.

Or so the author claims…

Re: Claude Code Is My Computer

#87
> Instead of doing the usual restore dance, I pointed Claude at my backup disk and said: “Restore this Mac from my backup disk—start with dotfiles, then system preferences, CLI tools, and restore Homebrew formulae and global npm packages.”

I setup a new computer in ~15 minutes top. Everything is here: https://github.com/Frizlab/frizlabs-conf. Only thing I have to do first is install brew basically.

Re: Claude Code Is My Computer

#88

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I worked about 4h on this and 50+ prompts. See the GitHub PR. In the end that’s not much different to iterating with a direct editor.

Then why not just write it? You mention not having to write Markdown in the post, but c’mon dude, you’re a software developer. Presumably the fact you have a personal blog means you must enjoy some aspect of writing, so what’s the end game here? I mean you do you I guess—it’s your blog and I’m nobody. But if I’m reading someone’s thoughts I want _their_ words, not something filtered through a machine.

I 100-shot prompts with my style. there is no difference. I only input the new data.

Re: Claude Code Is My Computer

#89
post #15

lmao, I watched Claude write a bash file that: rm rf'd my HOME file. I'm good on all of this for a while.

No, you did not. Stop trolling. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44097108

Yes it did. There are lots of instances of claude doing this on cursor. Just check the forums guy.

Re: Claude Code Is My Computer

#90
post #3

lmao, I watched Claude write a bash file that: rm rf'd my HOME file. I'm good on all of this for a while.

I'm curious - what did you ask it to do?

Asked it to write a TODO app with FYNE. I purposely had it on YOLO. Everything was backed up idc really. Its been a bug with claude on cursor getting around permissions. It was the day claude 4 came out and I wanted to see what it could do with YOLO. It was kinda funnny but annoying, could be catastrophic for someone who doesn't back up everything obsessively.
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