6 weeks of Claude Code

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Post by mike1o1 » Thu, Jul 31, 2025, 3:25 PM UTC

Re: 6 weeks of Claude Code

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Post by iwontberude » Sat, Aug 02, 2025, 2:12 PM UTC

I stopped writing as much code because of RSI and carpal tunnel but Claude has given me a way to program without pain (perhaps an order of magnitude less pain). As much as I was wanting to reject it, I literally am going to need it to continue my career.

Re: 6 weeks of Claude Code

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Post by iaw » Sat, Aug 02, 2025, 2:21 PM UTC

iwontberude wrote: post #2

I stopped writing as much code because of RSI and carpal tunnel but Claude has given me a way to program without pain (perhaps an order of magnitude less pain). As much as I was wanting to reject it, I literally am going to need it to continue my career.

Now that you point this out, since I started using Claude my RSI pain is virtually non-existent. There is so much boilerplate and repetitive work taken out when Claude can hit 90% of the mark.

Especially with very precise language. I've heard of people using speech to text to use it which opens up all sorts of accessibility windows.

Re: 6 weeks of Claude Code

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Post by fuckyah » Sat, Aug 02, 2025, 2:23 PM UTC

I’m currently in Europe and noticed that Claude code gets significantly slower when North America awakes…

Re: 6 weeks of Claude Code

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Post by Fraterkes » Sat, Aug 02, 2025, 2:31 PM UTC

Irrespective of how good Claude code actually is (I haven’t used it, but I think this article makes a really cogent case), here’s something that bothers me: I’m very junior, I have a big slow ugly codebase of gdscript (basically python) that I’m going to convert to C# to both clean it up and speed it up.

This is for a personal project, I haven’t written a ton of C# or done this amount of refactoring before, so this could be educational in multiple ways.

If I were to use Claude for this Id feel like I was robbing myself of something that could teach me a lot (and maybe motivate me to start out with structuring my code better in the future). If I don’t use Claude I feel like Im wasting my (very sparse) free time on a pretty uninspiring task that may very well be automated away in most future jobs, mostly out of some (misplaced? Masochistic?) belief about programming craft.

This sort of back and forth happens a lot in my head now with projects.

Re: 6 weeks of Claude Code

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Post by jansan » Sat, Aug 02, 2025, 2:34 PM UTC

A lot of things that the author achieved with Claude Code is migrating or refactoring of code. To me, who started using Claude Code just two weeks ago, this seems to be one of the real strengths at the moment. We have a large business app that uses an abandoned component library and contains a lot of cruft. Migrating to another component library seemed next to impossible, but with Claude Code the whole process took me just about one week. It is making mistakes (non-matching tags for example), but with some human oversight we reached the first goal. Next goal is removing as much cruft as possible, so working on the app becomes possible or even fun again.

I remember when JetBrains made programming so much easier with their refactoring tools in IntelliJ IDEA. To me (with very limited AI experience) this seems to be a similar step, but bigger.

Re: 6 weeks of Claude Code

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Post by gjfkririfif » Sat, Aug 02, 2025, 2:34 PM UTC

Fraterkes wrote: post #5

Irrespective of how good Claude code actually is (I haven’t used it, but I think this article makes a really cogent case), here’s something that bothers me: I’m very junior, I have a big slow ugly codebase of gdscript (basically python) that I’m going to convert to C# to both clean it up and speed it up. This is for a personal project, I haven’t written a ton of C# or done this amount of refactoring before, so this c…

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Re: 6 weeks of Claude Code

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Post by flappyeagle » Sat, Aug 02, 2025, 2:36 PM UTC

iwontberude wrote: post #2

I stopped writing as much code because of RSI and carpal tunnel but Claude has given me a way to program without pain (perhaps an order of magnitude less pain). As much as I was wanting to reject it, I literally am going to need it to continue my career.

Are you using dictation for text entry

Re: 6 weeks of Claude Code

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Post by jansan » Sat, Aug 02, 2025, 2:38 PM UTC

Fraterkes wrote: post #5

Irrespective of how good Claude code actually is (I haven’t used it, but I think this article makes a really cogent case), here’s something that bothers me: I’m very junior, I have a big slow ugly codebase of gdscript (basically python) that I’m going to convert to C# to both clean it up and speed it up. This is for a personal project, I haven’t written a ton of C# or done this amount of refactoring before, so this c…

It depends how you use it. You can ask Claude Code for instructions to migrate the Code yourself, and it will be a teacher. Or you can ask it to create a migration plan and the execute it, in which case learning will of course be very limited. I recommend to do the conversion in smaller steps if possible. We tried to migrate a project just for fun in one single step and Claude Code failed miserably (itself thought it had done a terrific job), but doing it in smaller chunks worked out quite well.

Re: 6 weeks of Claude Code

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Post by zkry » Sat, Aug 02, 2025, 2:41 PM UTC

jansan wrote: post #6

A lot of things that the author achieved with Claude Code is migrating or refactoring of code. To me, who started using Claude Code just two weeks ago, this seems to be one of the real strengths at the moment. We have a large business app that uses an abandoned component library and contains a lot of cruft. Migrating to another component library seemed next to impossible, but with Claude Code the whole process took m…

On the other hand though, automated refactoring like in IntelliJ can scale practically infinitely, are extremely low cost, and are gauranteed to never make any mistakes.

Not saying this is more useful per se, just saying that different approaches have their pros and cons.