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Learn Claude Code by doing, not reading

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Re: Learn Claude Code by doing, not reading

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Post by te_chris »

ryanchoi wrote: post #120
MeetingsBrowser wrote: post #20

I use claude code every day, I've written plugins and skills, use MCP servers, subagent workflows, and filled out the "Find your level" quiz as such. According to the quiz, I am a beginner!

I was a bit confused by the quiz results as well. But it's just a bug :) Level ranges for the 10 questions (the score ranges are in the html): Beginner 0~3, Intermediate 4~7, Advanced 8~10 Makes sense. But: - You get 0 points if you press A/B, 1 point if you press C, 2 points if you press D - Scoring uses a fallback to Beginner level if your total score exceeds the expected max which is 10 `const t = Object.values(r)…

And you’ll never guess who wrote it…

Re: Learn Claude Code by doing, not reading

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Post by nagdy »

MeetingsBrowser wrote: post #20

I use claude code every day, I've written plugins and skills, use MCP servers, subagent workflows, and filled out the "Find your level" quiz as such. According to the quiz, I am a beginner!

Hey! Thanks for the feedback on the quiz and you're right, the scoring logic has a bug. Already on my fix list. But the quiz is just the entry point. The real value is the 11 interactive modules and terminal simulators where you practice actual Claude Code commands, config builders that generate real files, and quizzes that explain the "why" when you get it wrong.

Would love to hear what you think of the actual modules.

Re: Learn Claude Code by doing, not reading

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Post by taurath »

nagdy wrote: post #122
MeetingsBrowser wrote: post #20

I use claude code every day, I've written plugins and skills, use MCP servers, subagent workflows, and filled out the "Find your level" quiz as such. According to the quiz, I am a beginner!

Hey! Thanks for the feedback on the quiz and you're right, the scoring logic has a bug. Already on my fix list. But the quiz is just the entry point. The real value is the 11 interactive modules and terminal simulators where you practice actual Claude Code commands, config builders that generate real files, and quizzes that explain the "why" when you get it wrong. Would love to hear what you think of the actual modul…

There seems to be a particular way that people working with LLMs start speaking - its like utterly confident, leaving no room for self introspection, borderline arrogant, and almost always selling the last thing they output. Hm

Re: Learn Claude Code by doing, not reading

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Post by nickphx »

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.

hahaha fuck that. speak for yourself man.

Re: Learn Claude Code by doing, not reading

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Post by i_love_retros »

nice_byte wrote: post #42
i_love_retros wrote: post #40

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

I don't think that is true.

To be clear I think AI coding agents are massively over hyped and turn code bases into unmaintainable buggy messes... I hate them.

But "leadership" everywhere has AI psychosis and at my company I expect I'd eventually be let go if I refused to use it.

Re: Learn Claude Code by doing, not reading

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Post by MeetingsBrowser »

nagdy wrote: post #122
MeetingsBrowser wrote: post #20

I use claude code every day, I've written plugins and skills, use MCP servers, subagent workflows, and filled out the "Find your level" quiz as such. According to the quiz, I am a beginner!

Hey! Thanks for the feedback on the quiz and you're right, the scoring logic has a bug. Already on my fix list. But the quiz is just the entry point. The real value is the 11 interactive modules and terminal simulators where you practice actual Claude Code commands, config builders that generate real files, and quizzes that explain the "why" when you get it wrong. Would love to hear what you think of the actual modul…

If the entry point is obviously broken, most people won’t continue on to the “real value”, myself included

Re: Learn Claude Code by doing, not reading

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Post by corford »

teaearlgraycold wrote: post #102
corford wrote: post #52

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OpenCode with a Copilot Business sub and Opus 4.6 as the model works well

I'm looking at their plans ( https://github.com/features/copilot/plans ) it seems like the limits might be pretty low, even with the Pro+ plan which is 2x the cost of Claude Pro. It seems like Claude Pro might be 10-20x the Opus tokens for only twice the price.

Copilot has a totally different billing model. It's request based rather than token based. Counter-intuitively, in our case at least, it is way cheaper than token based pricing. One request can sometimes consume 2-4 million tokens but is billed as a single request (or it's multiplier if using a premium model like opus).

Re: Learn Claude Code by doing, not reading

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Post by lkbm »

lkbm wrote: post #57
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've heard this a few times lately, but this past weekend I built a website for a friend's birthday, and it took me several hours and many queries to get through my regular paid plan. I just use default settings (Sonnet 4.6, medium effort, thinking on). I'm guessing Opus eats up usage much, much faster. I don't know what's going on, since a lot of people are hitting limits and I don't seem to be.

Update: Maybe the difference is that I think I was just using the vscode extension at the time: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47586176

I go back and forth between vscode and claude in the terminal, but that day I think I did vscode.

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