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How I use every Claude Code feature

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Re: How I use every Claude Code feature

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Post by larusso »

ed_mercer wrote: post #68

I don't understand how people use the `git worktree` workflow. I get that you want to isolate your work, but how do you deal with dev servers, port conflicts and npm installs? When I tried it, it was way more hassle than it was worth.

I generally like to use it. But I one project in the org which simply can’t work because the internal built system expects a normal .git directory at the root. Means I have to rewrite some of the build code that isn’t aware of this git feature. And yes we use a library to read from git but not the git cli or a more recent compatible one that understands that the current work tree is not the main one.

Re: How I use every Claude Code feature

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Post by allyant »

simonw wrote: post #2

> Finally, we keep this file synced with an AGENTS.md file to maintain compatibility with other AI IDEs that our engineers might be using. I researched this the other day, the recommended (by Anthropic) way to do this is to have a CLAUDE.md with a single line in it: @AGENTS.md Then keep your actual content in the other file: https://docs.claude.com/en/docs/claude-code/claude-code-on-t...

This is one thing I think they need to get in-line with, and rename CLAUDE.md to AGENTS.md to follow convention.

Re: How I use every Claude Code feature

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Post by risyachka »

zkmon wrote: post #41

Just my curiosity: Why are you producing so much code? Is it because it is now possible to do so with AI, or because you have a genuine need (solid business usecase) that requires a lot of code?

>> Why are you producing so much code?

This is basically a "thinking tax".

If you don't want to think and offload it to llm they burn through a lot of tokens to implement in a non-efficient way something you could often do in 10 lines if you though about it for a few minutes.

Re: How I use every Claude Code feature

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Post by larusso »

phplovesong wrote: post #59

No thanks. I rather write the code myself that use generated slop. I actually like to code and see little benefit in other peoples copypaste code (thats essentially what ai slop is really)

I feel or have the fear that the world will tumble and crack under the sheer amount of code we produce and can’t be maintained because at one point no one human can understand all the stuff that was written.

At the moment though I also code on and off with an agent. I’m not ready or willing to only vibe code my projects. For one is the fact that I had tons of examples where the agent gaslighted me only to turn around at the last stage. And in some cases the code output was to result focused and didn’t think about the broader general usage. And sure that’s in part because I hold it wrong. Don’t specify 10million markdown files etc. But it’s a feedback loop system. If I don’t trust the results I don’t jump in deeper. And I feel a lot of developers have no issue with jumping ever deeper. Write MCPs now CLIs and describe projects with custom markdown files. But I think we really need both camps. Otherwise we don’t move forward.

Re: How I use every Claude Code feature

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Post by the_mitsuhiko »

simonw wrote: post #6

I really like this take on MCP: https://blog.sshh.io/i/177742847/mcp-model-context-protocol > Instead of a bloated API, an MCP should be a simple, secure gateway that provides a few powerful, high-level tools [...] In this model, MCP’s job isn’t to abstract reality for the agent; its job is to manage the auth, networking, and security boundaries and then get out of the way.

Agreed. My only MCP is a code interpreter. I also recently started experimenting with making an MCP “proxy” which acts a better harness that lets the agent call MCP from within a code interpreter [1]

But in general I still don’t really use MCP. Agents are just so good at solving problems themselves. I wish MCP would mostly focus at the auth part instead of the tool part. Getting an agent access to an API with credentials usually gives them enough power to solve problems on their own.

[1]: https://x.com/mitsuhiko/status/1984756813850374578?s=46

Re: How I use every Claude Code feature

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Post by fabbbbb »

ed_mercer wrote: post #68

I don't understand how people use the `git worktree` workflow. I get that you want to isolate your work, but how do you deal with dev servers, port conflicts and npm installs? When I tried it, it was way more hassle than it was worth.

Agree, depending on the repo and changes it’s hard with local dev servers. It sometimes works well if you don’t need local dockers and want to outsource git workflow to CC as well. Then it can do on that branch whatever it wants and main work is in another worktree with more steering and or docker env.

Re: How I use every Claude Code feature

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Post by pletnes »

simonw wrote: post #5
raybb wrote: post #4

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You think it would be a good idea to use a symlink instead?

I'm still not 100% sure I understand what a symlink in a git repository actually does, especially across different operating systems. Maybe it's fine? Anthropic say "put @AGENTS.md in your CLAUDE.md" file and my own experiments confirmed that this dumps the content into the system prompt in the same way as if you had copied it to CLAUDE.md manually, so I'm happy with that solution - at least until Anthropic give in a…

On windows, it depends on the local git configuration. It’s not something I’ve been happy with, especially since symlinks also behave differently again when you’re running a docker container to get your windows usable for development.

Re: How I use every Claude Code feature

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Post by [deleted] »

MangoToupe wrote: post #40

Blog posts like this would really benefit from specific examples. While I can get some mileage out of these tools for greenfield projects, I'm actually shocked that this has proven useful with projects of any substantial size or complexity. I'm very curious to understand the context where such tools are paying off.

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Re: How I use every Claude Code feature

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Post by risyachka »

sshh12 wrote: post #44
MangoToupe wrote: post #40

Blog posts like this would really benefit from specific examples. While I can get some mileage out of these tools for greenfield projects, I'm actually shocked that this has proven useful with projects of any substantial size or complexity. I'm very curious to understand the context where such tools are paying off.

Makes sense. I work for a growth stage startup and most of these apply to our internal mono repo so hard to share specifics. We use this for both new and legacy code each with their own unique AI coding challenges. If theres enough interest, I might replicate some examples in an open source project.

Whats interesting to see is not the project setup but the resulted generated code in a mid-sized project.

To see if it is easy to digest, no repeated code etc or is it just slop that should be consumed by another agent and never by human.

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