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Claude Code on the web

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Re: Claude Code on the web

#171

We were heavy users of Claude Code ($70K+ spend per year) and have almost completely switched to codex CLI. I'm doing massive lifts with it on software that would never before have been feasible for me personally, or any team I've ever run. I'll use Claude Code maybe once every two weeks as a second set of eyes to inspect code and document a bug, with mixed success. But my experience has been that initially Claude Co…

I'm just happy alternatives exist.

Re: Claude Code on the web

#173
post #89

I feel like these background agents still aren't doing what I want from a developer experience perspective. Running in an inaccessible environment that pushes random things to branches that I then have to checkout locally doesn't feel great. AI coding should be tightly in the inner dev loop! PRs are a bad way to review and iterate on code. They are a last line of defense, not the primary way to develop. Give me an is…

I agree and I also think the problem is deeper than that. It's about not being able to do most code testing and debugging remotely. You can't really test anything remotely really... Its in an ephemeral container without any of your data, just your repo. You can't have the model do npm run dev and browse to see the webpage, click around, etc. You can't compile or run anything heavy, you can't persist data across sessi…

What you're describing feels like the next major evolution and is likely years away (and exciting!).

I'm mainly aiming for a good experience with what we have today. Welding an AI agent onto my IDE turned out to be great. The next incremental step feels like being able to parallelize that. I want four concurrent IDEs with AI welded onto it.

Re: Claude Code on the web

#174

We were heavy users of Claude Code ($70K+ spend per year) and have almost completely switched to codex CLI. I'm doing massive lifts with it on software that would never before have been feasible for me personally, or any team I've ever run. I'll use Claude Code maybe once every two weeks as a second set of eyes to inspect code and document a bug, with mixed success. But my experience has been that initially Claude Co…

I haven’t used Codex a lot, but GPT-5 is just a bit smarter in agent mode than Claude 4.5. The most challenging thing I’ve used it for is for code review and GPT-5 somewhat regularly found intricate bugs that Claude missed. However, Claude seemed to be better at following directions exactly vs GPT-5 which requires a lot more precision.

Re: Claude Code on the web

#175

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I can not. We're all racing very hard to take full advantage of these new capabilities before they go mainstream. And to be honest, sharing problem domains that are particularly attractive would be sharing too much. Go forth and experiment. Have fun with it. You'll figure it out pretty fast. You can read my other post here about the kinds of problem spaces I'm looking at.

I'm seeing the downvotes. I'm sorry folks feel that way. I'm regretting my honesty. Edit: I'd like to reply to this comment in particular but can't in a threaded reply, so will do that here: "Ah, super secret problem domains that have been thoroughly represented in the LLM training data. Nice." This exhibits a fundamental misunderstanding of why coding agents powered by LLMs are such a game changer. The assumption th…

We've all been hearing from people talking about how amazing AI coding agents are for a while now. Many skeptics have tried them out, looked into how to make good use of them, used modern agentic tools, done context engineering, etc. and found that they did not live up to the claims being made, at least for their problem domain.

Talk is cheap, and we're tired of hearing people tell us how it's enabling them to make incredible software without actually demonstrating it. Your words might be true, or they might be just another over-exaggeration to throw on the pile. Without details we have no way of knowing, and so many make the empirically supported choice.

Re: Claude Code on the web

#176
post #89

I feel like these background agents still aren't doing what I want from a developer experience perspective. Running in an inaccessible environment that pushes random things to branches that I then have to checkout locally doesn't feel great. AI coding should be tightly in the inner dev loop! PRs are a bad way to review and iterate on code. They are a last line of defense, not the primary way to develop. Give me an is…

> PRs are a bad way to review and iterate on code idk, we’ve (humans) gotten this far with them. I don’t think they are the right tool for AI generated code and coding agents though, and that these circles are being forced to fit into those squares. imho it’s time for an AI-native git or something.

PRs work well for what they are. Ship off some changes you're strongly confident about and have another human who has a lot of context read through it and double check you. It's for when you think you've finished your inner loop.

AI is more akin to pair programming with another person sitting next to you. I don't want to ship a PR or even a branch off to someone sitting next to me. I want to discuss and type together in real time.

Re: Claude Code on the web

#177

We were heavy users of Claude Code ($70K+ spend per year) and have almost completely switched to codex CLI. I'm doing massive lifts with it on software that would never before have been feasible for me personally, or any team I've ever run. I'll use Claude Code maybe once every two weeks as a second set of eyes to inspect code and document a bug, with mixed success. But my experience has been that initially Claude Co…

I haven't been able to get anything done with Codex. Claude Code is fast and "gets it". Also does better at running and testing its own stuff.

Its very odd because I was hoping they were very on par.

Re: Claude Code on the web

#178
The way network Access works really feels weird to me. I wish that instead i could just do it like (or with!) nix. If i know the hash of the thing I'm fetching from the network, allow me access to it. Instead of arbitrarily allow listing domains.

Imagine if this would just be able to use your nix file in your repo to fetch all the dependencies needed to run your project. That'd be extremely sick

Re: Claude Code on the web

#179
post #65

Earlier quoted context omitted.

IMO Sonnet 4.5 is great but it just isn’t as comprehensive of a thinker. I love Anthropic and primarily use CC day to day but for any tricky problems or “high stakes, this must not have bugs” issues, I turn to Codex. I do find if you let Codex run on it its own too long it will produce comparably sloppy or lacking-in-vision type issues that people criticize Sonnet for, however.

That’s a curious approach. Why would you use both? Why not just use the more reliable dependable option for all purposes?

I frequently have multiple coding assistants going at once—Gemini 2.5 Pro via Aider as the workhorse for most standard changes, Sonnet 4.5 via Claude Code for question answering, documentation, test case development, or broad based changes to many files in a project, then GPT-5 for more complex diagnostic or architectural type things—I don’t generally like the code it writes, but it will often be able to fix situations where the other models get stuck in some kind of local maxima.
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