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What makes Claude Code so damn good
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Re: What makes Claude Code so damn good
#52I don’t know if I’m doing something wrong. I was using Sonnet 4 with GitHub Copilot. Recently a week ago switched to Claude Code. I find GitHub Copilot solves problem and bugs way better than Claude Code. For some reason, Claude Code seems very lazy. Has anyone experience something similar?
The consensus is the opposite: most people find copilot does less well than Claude with both using sonnet 4. Without discounting your experience, you’ll need to give us more detail about what exactly you were trying to do (what problem, what prompt) and what you mean by “lazy” if you want any meaningful advice though.
Re: What makes Claude Code so damn good
#53Unfortunately, Claude Code is not open source, but there are some tools to better figure out how it is working. If you are really interested in how it works, I strongly recommend looking at Claude Trace: https://github.com/badlogic/lemmy/tree/main/apps/claude-trac...
It dumps out a JSON file as well as a very nicely formatted HTML file that shows you every single tool and all the prompts that were used for a session.
Re: What makes Claude Code so damn good
#54Earlier quoted context omitted.
Please don't post unsubstantive comments to Hacker News, and especially not putdowns. The idea here is: if you have a substantive point, make it thoughtfully. If not, please don't comment until you do. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
I appreciate the vague negative takes on tools like this where it feels like there is so much hype it's impossible to have a different opinion. "It's bad" is perfectly substantiative in my opinion; this person tried it, didn't like it, and doesn't have much more to say because of that, but it's still a useful perspective. Is this why HN is so dang pro-AI? the negative comments, even small ones, are moderated away? ex…
that wasn't a negative comment though. a negative comment would explain what they didn't like about it. this was the digital equivalent of flytipping.
Re: What makes Claude Code so damn good
#55What do people think of Google's Gemini (Pro?) compared to Claude for code? I really like a lot of what Google produces, but they can't seem to keep a product that they don't shut down and they can be pretty ham-fisted, both with corporate control (Chrome and corrupt practices) and censorship
Gemini is better at helping to debug difficult problems that require following multiple function calls.
I think Claude is much more predictable and follows instructions better- the todo list it manages seems very helpful in this respect.
Re: What makes Claude Code so damn good
#56Earlier quoted context omitted.
I appreciate the vague negative takes on tools like this where it feels like there is so much hype it's impossible to have a different opinion. "It's bad" is perfectly substantiative in my opinion; this person tried it, didn't like it, and doesn't have much more to say because of that, but it's still a useful perspective. Is this why HN is so dang pro-AI? the negative comments, even small ones, are moderated away? ex…
I think this comment would be a little better by specifying WHY it's bad instead of just a "it's bad" like it's a Twitter thread.
The subject is pretty exhausted. The reason I post "it's bad" because, honestly, expending on it just feels like a waste of time and energy. The point is demonstrating that this _isn't_ a consensus, and not much more than that.
Edit: bonus points if this gets me banned.
Re: What makes Claude Code so damn good
#57> "THIS IS IMPORTANT" is still State of the Art
Had a similar problems until I saw the advice "Dont say what it shouldn't but focus on what it should".
i.e. make sure when it reaches for the 'thing', it has the alternative in context.
Haven't had those problems since then.
Re: What makes Claude Code so damn good
#58CC is so damn good I want to use its agent loop in my agent loop. I'm planning to build a browser agent for some specialized tasks and I'm literally just bundling a docker image with Claude Code and a headless browser and the Playwright MCP server.
cool
Re: What makes Claude Code so damn good
#59It shocks me when people say that LLMs don't make them more productive, because my experience has been the complete opposite, especially with Claude Code. Either I'm worse than then at programming, to the point that I find an LLM useful and they don't, or they don't know how to use LLMs for coding.
It depends very much on your use case, language popularity, experience coding, and the size of your project. If you work on a large, legacy code base in COBOL, it's going to be much harder than working on a toy greenfield application in React. If your prior knowledge writing code is minimal, the more amazing the results will seem, and vice-versa. Despite the persistent memes here and elsewhere, it doesn't depend very…
Overall I would agree with you, but I start feeling that this „iron law“ isn’t as simple as that. After all, humans have limited „context window“ too — we don’t remember every small detail on a large project we have been working on for several years. Loose coupling and modularity helps us and can help LLM to make the size of the task manageable if you don’t ask it to rebuild the whole thing. It’s not the size that makes LLMs fail, but something else, probably the same things where we may fail.
Re: What makes Claude Code so damn good
#60Earlier quoted context omitted.
Please don't post unsubstantive comments to Hacker News, and especially not putdowns. The idea here is: if you have a substantive point, make it thoughtfully. If not, please don't comment until you do. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
I appreciate the vague negative takes on tools like this where it feels like there is so much hype it's impossible to have a different opinion. "It's bad" is perfectly substantiative in my opinion; this person tried it, didn't like it, and doesn't have much more to say because of that, but it's still a useful perspective. Is this why HN is so dang pro-AI? the negative comments, even small ones, are moderated away? ex…
There is no value in a single poster saying "it's bad". I don't know this person, there is zero context on why I should care that this user thinks it's bad. Unless they state why they think it's bad, it adds nothing to the conversation and is just noise