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My experience with Claude Code after two weeks of adventures

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Re: My experience with Claude Code after two weeks of adventures

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Sometimes, you'll just have a really productive session with Claude Code doing a specific thing that maybe you need to do a lot of.

One trick I have gotten some milage out of was this: have Claude Code research Slash commands, then make a slash command to turn the previous conversation into a slash command.

That was cool and great! But then, of course you inevitably will interrupt it and need to do stuff to correct it, or to make a change or "not like that!" or "use this tool" or "think harder before you try that" or "think about the big picture" ... So you do that. And then you ask it to make a command and it figures out you want a /improve-command command.

So now you have primitives to build on!

Here are my current iterations of these commands (not saying they are optimal!)

https://github.com/ctoth/slashcommands/blob/master/make-comm...

https://github.com/ctoth/slashcommands/blob/master/improve-c...

Re: My experience with Claude Code after two weeks of adventures

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post #5

Sometimes, you'll just have a really productive session with Claude Code doing a specific thing that maybe you need to do a lot of. One trick I have gotten some milage out of was this: have Claude Code research Slash commands, then make a slash command to turn the previous conversation into a slash command. That was cool and great! But then, of course you inevitably will interrupt it and need to do stuff to correct i…

I find amazing all the effort that people put trying to program a non deterministic black box. True courage.

Re: My experience with Claude Code after two weeks of adventures

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Claude Code is hard to describe. It’s almost like I changed jobs when I started using it. I’ve been all-in with Claude as a workflow tool, but this is literally steroids.

If you haven’t tried it, I can’t recommend it enough. It’s the first time it really does feel like working with a junior engineer to me.

Re: My experience with Claude Code after two weeks of adventures

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post #5

Sometimes, you'll just have a really productive session with Claude Code doing a specific thing that maybe you need to do a lot of. One trick I have gotten some milage out of was this: have Claude Code research Slash commands, then make a slash command to turn the previous conversation into a slash command. That was cool and great! But then, of course you inevitably will interrupt it and need to do stuff to correct i…

I find amazing all the effort that people put trying to program a non deterministic black box. True courage.

Oh do let me tell you how much effort I put into tending my non-deterministic garden or relationships or hell even the contractors I am using to renovate my house!

A few small markdown documents and putting in the time to understand something interesting hardly seems a steep price!

Re: My experience with Claude Code after two weeks of adventures

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There is a VS Code extension for Claude Code. It's hardly more than a terminal window really, but that in itself is pretty handy. If you do /ide to connect up the extension it does a few things, but not yet anything resembling the Cursor diff experience (much less the Cursor tab experience, which is the reason I still use it).

Re: My experience with Claude Code after two weeks of adventures

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Claude Code is hard to describe. It’s almost like I changed jobs when I started using it. I’ve been all-in with Claude as a workflow tool, but this is literally steroids. If you haven’t tried it, I can’t recommend it enough. It’s the first time it really does feel like working with a junior engineer to me.

Almost feels like a game as you level up!
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