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What makes Claude Code so damn good

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Re: What makes Claude Code so damn good

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Post by BeetleB »

esafak wrote: post #172
BeetleB wrote: post #119

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That's because jj is relatively new, and constantly changing. The official tutorial is (by their own admission), out of date. People's blog posts are fairly different in what commands/usage they recommend, as well. I know it, because I recently learned jj, with a lot of struggling. If a human struggles learning it, I wouldn't expect LLMs to be much better.

That's ironic considering jj is supposed to make version control easier.

It does make it easier. Don't conflate documentation with the tool itself.

Re: What makes Claude Code so damn good

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Post by BeetleB »

a5c11 wrote: post #196
BeetleB wrote: post #132

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Depends on the algorithm. When you've been coding for a few decades, you really, really don't want to write yet another trivial algorithm you've written multiple tens of times in your life. There's no joy in it. Let the LLM do the boring stuff, and focus on writing the fun stuff. Also, setting up logging in Python is never fun.

> Also, setting up logging in Python is never fun. import logging

Not fun at all.

Configuring it to produce useful stuff (e.g. timestamps, autologging exceptions, etc). Very boilerplate and tedious.

Re: What makes Claude Code so damn good

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Post by BeetleB »

foobarbecue wrote: post #153
BeetleB wrote: post #132

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Depends on the algorithm. When you've been coding for a few decades, you really, really don't want to write yet another trivial algorithm you've written multiple tens of times in your life. There's no joy in it. Let the LLM do the boring stuff, and focus on writing the fun stuff. Also, setting up logging in Python is never fun.

Right-- it's only really capable of trivial code and boilerplate, which I usually just copy from one of my older programs, examples in docs, or a highly-ranked recent SO answer. Saves me from having to converse with an expensive chatbot, and I don't have to worry about random hallucinations. If it's a new, non-trivial algorithm, I enjoy writing it.

For me, it's a lot easier getting the LLM to do it than browsing through multiple SO answers, or even finding some old code of mine.

Oh, and the chatbot is cheap. I pay for API usage. On average I'm paying less than $5 per month.

> and I don't have to worry about random hallucinations.

For boilerplate code, I don't think I've ever had to fix anything. It's always worked the first time. If it didn't, my prompt was at fault.

Re: What makes Claude Code so damn good

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Post by brokegrammer »

I don't get it. The title says "What makes Claude Code so damn good", which implies that they will show how Claude Code is better than other tools, or just better in general. But they go about repeating the Claude Code documentation using different wording.

Am I missing something here? Or is this just Anthropic shilling?

Re: What makes Claude Code so damn good

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Post by fourthark »

ta12653421 wrote: post #89
ta12653421 wrote: post #19

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Productivity boost is unbelieveable! If you handle it right, its a boon - its like having 3 junior devs at hand. And I'm talking about using the web interface. I guess most people are not paying and cant therefore apply the project-space (which is one of the best features), which unleashes its full magic. Even if I'm currently without a job, I'm still paying because it helps me.

LOL why do I get downvoted for explaining my experience? :-D

So describe your experience without being a booster

Re: What makes Claude Code so damn good

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Post by nuwandavek »

brokegrammer wrote: post #205

I don't get it. The title says "What makes Claude Code so damn good", which implies that they will show how Claude Code is better than other tools, or just better in general. But they go about repeating the Claude Code documentation using different wording. Am I missing something here? Or is this just Anthropic shilling?

(blogpost author here) Haha, that's totally fair. I've read a whole bunch of posts comparing CC to other tools, or with a dump of the the architecture. This post was mainly for people who've used CC extensively, know for a fact that it is better and wonder how to ship such an experience in their own apps.

Re: What makes Claude Code so damn good

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Post by tcoff91 »

riazrizvi wrote: post #195
syntaxing wrote: post #16

I 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?

I use ChatGPT, and I have used Claude several times. I’ve not found Claude to be better. I’ve come to the conclusion that all these posts asking why Claude is so good at coding, are all part of some marketing approach. I think it’s tied to how Claude prefers to hook into repos, I think maybe it’s tied to a business strategy of acquiring a mega code dataset. So they are especially motivated to push this narrative vs s…

If you aren’t using a client that automatically uses the context of your repos then you don’t understand why people like Claude. You need to use the Claude Code CLI in order to really get the best results.

Re: What makes Claude Code so damn good

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Post by nuwandavek »

samuelstros wrote: post #146
nuwandavek wrote: post #138

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(author of the blogpost here) Yeah, you can extract a LOT of performance from the basics and don't have to do any complicated setup for ~99% of use cases. Keep the loop simple, have clear tools (it is ok if tools overlap in function). Clarity and simplicity >>> everything else.

does a framework like vercel's ai sdk help, or is handling the loop + tool calling so straightforward that a framework is overcomplicating things? for context, i want to build a claude code like agent in a WYSIWYG markdown app. that's how i stumbled on your blog post :)

There may be other reasons to use ai sdk, but I'd highly recommend starting with a simple loop + port most relevant tools from Claude Code before using any framework.

Nice, do share a link, would love to check out your agent!

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