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Re: Claude Code Unleashed

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Post by mnky9800n »

UnreachableCode wrote: post #25

Am I the only person who hasn't found the time, money, permission from work, resources, etc to be able to produce software like this? I'm still at my corporate 9-5 where they're still making the decision on whether we're allowed to use copilot yet.

I do stuff after work to keep up to date. Like scrolling hacker news and as my gf says “shitposting on LinkedIn”. But also I’ve been building some apps with Claude code. It’s fun actually. But I also do other stuff like gym and cycling and Russian language learning.

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Post by dr_kiszonka »

UnreachableCode wrote: post #25

Am I the only person who hasn't found the time, money, permission from work, resources, etc to be able to produce software like this? I'm still at my corporate 9-5 where they're still making the decision on whether we're allowed to use copilot yet.

I am in a situation where everyone uses it but is ashamed to admit it. I often spot people secretly glancing at GH copilot chat or Chat GPT.

Re: Claude Code Unleashed

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Post by olmo23 »

UnreachableCode wrote: post #25

Am I the only person who hasn't found the time, money, permission from work, resources, etc to be able to produce software like this? I'm still at my corporate 9-5 where they're still making the decision on whether we're allowed to use copilot yet.

They gave us copilot and honestly for me it's been a bit of a double-edged sword. I often use it with Claude 4 as model. What I noticed is that the tool is able and eager to make large sweeping modifications to the code base where I would be apprehensive and look for an easier way.

For example: changing the type signatures of all functions in a module to pass along some extra state, a huge amount of work. I ended up reverting the changes and replacing the functionality with thread local storage (well, dynamically scoped variables).

So, definitely not a panacea, but still well worth the money.

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Post by ksynwa »

Can someone explain to me like I'm from 2020 what these multiple agents are for? Is it something like starting five different Claude Code sessions in parallel to fix five different issues? Or are they collaborating in some capacity?

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Post by deanc »

eisbaw wrote: post #22
thatscot wrote: post #16

When I work side-by-side with Claude to fix bugs or ask it to fix problems. It constantly makes mistakes, like the other day it got the concept of batchItemFailures on an sqs queue completely wrong. How are people just firing them off to build stuff with any confidence?

https://ghuntley.com/stdlib/ applies to claude as well. AI won't magically know your codebase unless it is pretty vanilla - but then you teach it. If it makes a mistake, teach it by adding a rule. You have to confine the output space or else you quickly get whatever.

One might argue it should know others codebases though. The fact it wouldn’t know function signatures for AWS SDK isn’t hugely promising and reflects my own experiences using LLMs

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Post by khalic »

davedx wrote: post #28

Are all these Claude Code articles adverts for people building wrappers around Claude Code? I'm starting to get quite sceptical about how good it actually is

Claude code is very good, no idea about the wrapper and don’t really care. The “hidden” adverts do get on my nerves though

Re: Claude Code Unleashed

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Post by machiaweliczny »

khalic wrote: post #36
davedx wrote: post #28

Are all these Claude Code articles adverts for people building wrappers around Claude Code? I'm starting to get quite sceptical about how good it actually is

Claude code is very good, no idea about the wrapper and don’t really care. The “hidden” adverts do get on my nerves though

I disagree. It's pricy and does crap code unless precisely instructed. Maybe because I was prompting in non-english langauge

Re: Claude Code Unleashed

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Post by Quarrel »

brainless wrote: post #8

I am using Claude Code full-time for about 6 weeks* with the $20/month subscription. I am trying out building different products from ideas I have already had. It frees me a lot of time to talk about my founder journey. I have not needed multiple agents or using CC over an SSH terminal to run overnight. The main reason is that LLMs are not correct many times. So I still need time to test. Like run the whole app, or c…

If there is barely any code in those repos that you wrote, how can you license them under the GPL? You don't hold the copyright for it.

This genuinely isn't an attack, I just don't think you can? The AI isn't granted copyright over what it produces.

Re: Claude Code Unleashed

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Post by mike_hearn »

ksynwa wrote: post #34

Can someone explain to me like I'm from 2020 what these multiple agents are for? Is it something like starting five different Claude Code sessions in parallel to fix five different issues? Or are they collaborating in some capacity?

Five different issues. They don't (yet) collaborate. However, Claude Code does let the model farm out subtasks to "sub agents" which is basically just forking the chat history in order to manage context explosion. Claude often does this to find things in the codebase - it effectively instructs a sub-instance of itself to work out where something is, the sub-conversation terminates with an answer and the main context window only contains the answer. It can also do this in parallel.

So, it's kinda both. Terragon works on separate tasks in parallel, Claude Code farms out subtasks and sometimes also in parallel.

Re: Claude Code Unleashed

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Post by mike_hearn »

machiaweliczny wrote: post #37
khalic wrote: post #36

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Claude code is very good, no idea about the wrapper and don’t really care. The “hidden” adverts do get on my nerves though

I disagree. It's pricy and does crap code unless precisely instructed. Maybe because I was prompting in non-english langauge

Don't do that. Quality of all models tanks in non-English unfortunately. It's fine for chat and translation tasks but their cognitive capacities does reduce a lot.

One of the next features I'm expecting wrappers to add on top is auto-translation. In many work contexts it makes more sense to translate what the user said to English, process that and translate the answer back than ask the model to speak the language natively.

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