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Re: A few random notes from Claude coding quite a bit last few weeks

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Post by tunesmith »

porise wrote: post #21

I wish the people who wrote this let us know what king of codebases they are working on. They seem mostly useless in a sufficiently large codebase especially when they are messy and interactions aren't always obvious. I don't know how much better Claude is than ChatGPT, but I can't get ChatGPT to do much useful with an existing large codebase.

If you have a ChatGPT account, there's nothing stopping you from installing codex cli and using your chatgpt account with it. I haven't coded with ChatGPT for weeks. Maybe a month ago I got utility out of coding with codex and then having ChatGPT look at my open IDE page to give comments, but since 5.2 came out, it's been 100% codex.

Re: A few random notes from Claude coding quite a bit last few weeks

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Post by spaceman_2020 »

porise wrote: post #21

I wish the people who wrote this let us know what king of codebases they are working on. They seem mostly useless in a sufficiently large codebase especially when they are messy and interactions aren't always obvious. I don't know how much better Claude is than ChatGPT, but I can't get ChatGPT to do much useful with an existing large codebase.

I'm afraid that we're entering a time when the performance difference between the really cutting edge and even the three-month-old tools is vast

If you're using plain vanilla chatgpt, you're woefully, woefully out of touch. Heck, even plain claude code is now outdated

Re: A few random notes from Claude coding quite a bit last few weeks

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Post by slfreference »

onetimeusename wrote: post #18

> the ratio of productivity between the mean and the max engineer? It's quite possible that this grows *a lot* I have a professor who has researched auto generated code for decades and about six months ago he told me he didn't think AI would make humans obsolete but that it was like other incremental tools over the years and it would just make good coders even better than other coders. He also said it would probably…

I can sense two classes of coders emerging.

Billionaire coder: a person who has "written" billion lines.

Ordinary coders : people with only couple of thousands to their git blame.

Re: A few random notes from Claude coding quite a bit last few weeks

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Post by slaymaker1907 »

atonse wrote: post #11

> LLM coding will split up engineers based on those who primarily liked coding and those who primarily liked building. I’ve always said I’m a builder even though I’ve also enjoyed programming (but for an outcome, never for the sake of the code) This perfectly sums up what I’ve been observing between people like me (builders) who are ecstatic about this new world and programmers who talk about the craft of programming…

I enjoy both and have ended up using AI a lot differently than vibe coders. I rarely use it for generating implementations, but I use it extensively for helping me understand docs/apis and more importantly, for debugging. AI saves me so much time trying to figure out why things aren’t working and in code review.

I deliberately avoid full vibe coding since I think doing so will rust my skills as a programmer. It also really doesn’t save much time in my experience. Once I have a design in mind, implementation is not the hard part.

Re: A few random notes from Claude coding quite a bit last few weeks

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Post by maximedupre »

> It hurts the ego a bit but the power to operate over software in large "code actions" is just too net useful

It does hurt, that's why all programmers now need an entrepreneurial mindset... you become if you use your skills + new AI power to build a business.

Re: A few random notes from Claude coding quite a bit last few weeks

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Post by jimbokun »

maxdo wrote: post #30
jimbokun wrote: post #25

I'm pretty happy with Copilot in VS Code. Type what change I want Claude to make in the Copilot panel, and then use the VS Code in context diffs to accept or reject the proposed changes. While being able to make other small changes on my own. So I think this tracks with Karpathy's defense of IDEs still being necessary ? Has anyone found it practical to forgo IDEs almost entirely?

Coplilot is not on par with cc or cursor even

I use it to access Claude. So what's the difference?

Re: A few random notes from Claude coding quite a bit last few weeks

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Post by spaceman_2020 »

WA wrote: post #35
maxdo wrote: post #30

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Coplilot is not on par with cc or cursor even

Why not? You can select Opus 4.5, Gemini 3 Pro, and others.

Claude Code is a CLI tool which means it can do complete projects in a single command. Also has fantastic tools for scaffolding and harnessing the code. You can define everything from your coding style to specific instructions for designing frontpages, integrating payments, etc.

It's not about the model. It's about the harness

Re: A few random notes from Claude coding quite a bit last few weeks

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Post by maxdo »

WA wrote: post #35
maxdo wrote: post #30

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Coplilot is not on par with cc or cursor even

Why not? You can select Opus 4.5, Gemini 3 Pro, and others.

it's not a model limit anymore, it's tools , skills, background agents, etc. It's an entire agentic environment.

Re: A few random notes from Claude coding quite a bit last few weeks

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Post by ph4te »

porise wrote: post #21

I wish the people who wrote this let us know what king of codebases they are working on. They seem mostly useless in a sufficiently large codebase especially when they are messy and interactions aren't always obvious. I don't know how much better Claude is than ChatGPT, but I can't get ChatGPT to do much useful with an existing large codebase.

I don't know how big sufficiently large codebase is, but we have a 1mil loc Java application, that is ~10years old, and runs POS systems, and Claude Code has no issues with it. We have done full analyses with output details each module, and also used it to pinpoint specific issues when described. Vibe coding is not used here, just analysis.

Re: A few random notes from Claude coding quite a bit last few weeks

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Post by oasisbob »

bee_rider wrote: post #38
CameronBanga wrote: post #34

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This is an antidotal example, but I released this last week after 3 months of work on it as a "nights and weekdends" project: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/skyscraper-for-bluesky/id67541... I've been working in the mobile space since 2009, though primarily as a designer and then product manager. I work in kinda a hybrid engineering/PM job now, and have never been a particularly strong programmer. I definitely wouldn'…

I don’t know if “antidotal example” is a pun or a typo but I quite like it.

That is fun.

Not sure if it's an American pronunciation thing, but I had to stare at that long and hard to see the problem and even after seeing it couldn't think of how you could possibly spell the correct word otherwise.

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