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Re: Learn Claude Code by doing, not reading

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Post by HDBaseT » Mon, Mar 30, 2026, 10:30 PM UTC

i_love_retros wrote: post #26

ForHackernews wrote: post #24

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Because you will soon be working for it unless you learn to make it work for you.

It's fucking insane that we all have to pay rent every month to an AI company just to keep doing our jobs.

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Re: Learn Claude Code by doing, not reading

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Post by nice_byte » Mon, Mar 30, 2026, 10:31 PM UTC

i_love_retros wrote: post #26

ForHackernews wrote: post #24

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Because you will soon be working for it unless you learn to make it work for you.

It's fucking insane that we all have to pay rent every month to an AI company just to keep doing our jobs.

you literally don't have to. you can literally just keep doing your job the way that you always have.

Re: Learn Claude Code by doing, not reading

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Post by arbitrary_name » Mon, Mar 30, 2026, 10:33 PM UTC

sznio wrote: post #9

faeyanpiraat wrote: post #6

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I cannot decipher what you mean, have you mixed up the tabs, and wanted to post this somewhere else? The linked site is a pretty good interactive Claude tutorial for beginners.

I don't understand the purpose of a tutorial for a natural language ai system.

sounds like you might benefit from a tutorial!

Re: Learn Claude Code by doing, not reading

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Post by jurakovic » Mon, Mar 30, 2026, 10:34 PM UTC

Is that quiz correct? I have answered mostly C or D and maybe a few of B, but still got "Beginner". How?!

Re: Learn Claude Code by doing, not reading

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Post by kylecazar » Mon, Mar 30, 2026, 10:34 PM UTC

teaearlgraycold wrote: post #30

aberoham wrote: post #28

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export CLAUDE_CODE_DISABLE_1M_CONTEXT=1

Anthropic is not building good will as a consumer brand. They've got the best product right now but there's a spring charging behind me ready to launch me into OpenCode as soon as the time is right.

Would you use Opus if you switched to OpenCode?

Re: Learn Claude Code by doing, not reading

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Post by dsQTbR7Y5mRHnZv » Mon, Mar 30, 2026, 10:37 PM UTC

mrtksn wrote: post #8

faeyanpiraat wrote: post #6

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I cannot decipher what you mean, have you mixed up the tabs, and wanted to post this somewhere else? The linked site is a pretty good interactive Claude tutorial for beginners.

Nope, why would anybody type commands to a machine that does natural language processing? Just tell the thing what you want.

"Part of the initial excitement in programming is easy to explain: just the fact that when you tell the computer to do something, it will do it. Unerringly. Forever. Without a complaint.

And that’s interesting in itself.

But blind obedience on its own, while initially fascinating, obviously does not make for a very likeable companion. What makes programming so engaging is that, while you can make the computer do what you want, you have to figure out how."[0]

- [0] https://www.brynmawr.edu/inside/academic-information/departm...

Re: Learn Claude Code by doing, not reading

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Post by skwallace36 » Mon, Mar 30, 2026, 10:41 PM UTC

grewil2 wrote: post #12

Side note: I don’t know what Anthropic changed but now Claude Code consumes the quota incredibly fast. I have the Max5 plan, and it just consumed about 10% of the session quota in 10 minutes on a single prompt. For $100/month, I have higher expectations.

things are rough out there right now

Re: Learn Claude Code by doing, not reading

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Post by roxolotl » Mon, Mar 30, 2026, 10:45 PM UTC

jurakovic wrote: post #34

Is that quiz correct? I have answered mostly C or D and maybe a few of B, but still got "Beginner". How?!

The quiz is super weird too. They A-C are knowledge questions D is something you’ve done.

Re: Learn Claude Code by doing, not reading

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Post by Wowfunhappy » Mon, Mar 30, 2026, 10:45 PM UTC

conception wrote: post #25

grewil2 wrote: post #12

Side note: I don’t know what Anthropic changed but now Claude Code consumes the quota incredibly fast. I have the Max5 plan, and it just consumed about 10% of the session quota in 10 minutes on a single prompt. For $100/month, I have higher expectations.

I noticed 1M context window is default and no way not to use it. If your context is at 500-900k tokens every prompt, you’re gonna hit limits fast.

I had to double check that they'd removed the non-1M option, and... WTF? This is what's in `/config` → `model`

    1. Default (recommended)    Opus 4.6 with 1M context · Most capable for complex work
    2. Sonnet                   Sonnet 4.6 · Best for everyday tasks
    3. Sonnet (1M context)      Sonnet 4.6 with 1M context · Billed as extra usage · $3/$15 per Mtok
    4. Haiku                    Haiku 4.5 · Fastest for quick answers

So there's an option to use non-1M Sonnet, but not non-1M Opus?

Except wait, I guess that actually makes sense, because it says Sonnet 1M is billed as extra usage... but also WTF, why is Sonnet 1M billed as extra usage? So Opus 1M is included in Max, but if you want the worse model with that much context, you have to pay extra? Why the heck would anyone do that?

The screen does also say "For other/previous model names, specify with --model", so I assume you can use that to get 200K Opus, but I'm very confused why Anthropic wouldn't include that in the list of options.

What a strange UX decision. I'm not personally annoyed, I just think it's bizarre.

Re: Learn Claude Code by doing, not reading

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Post by i_love_retros » Mon, Mar 30, 2026, 10:47 PM UTC

nice_byte wrote: post #32

i_love_retros wrote: post #26

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's fucking insane that we all have to pay rent every month to an AI company just to keep doing our jobs.

you literally don't have to. you can literally just keep doing your job the way that you always have.

I probably won't have a job for much longer if I do that, unfortunately