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Nanocode: The best Claude Code that $200 can buy in pure JAX on TPUs

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Re: Nanocode: The best Claude Code that $200 can buy in pure JAX on TPUs

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> This is a library showing you how to train your own Claude Code end-to-end.

What does it even mean?

Claude Code is a so called "harness" - a thing that builds a context for LLMs, calls LLMs, executes tool calls etc. It uses various Anthropic models under the hood.

It can also use other models AFAIK.

It cannot be "trained".

Sorry if this comment sounds nitpicky, I'm just annoyed by the imprecise use of terminology.

Re: Nanocode: The best Claude Code that $200 can buy in pure JAX on TPUs

#13

> This is a library showing you how to train your own Claude Code end-to-end. What does it even mean? Claude Code is a so called "harness" - a thing that builds a context for LLMs, calls LLMs, executes tool calls etc. It uses various Anthropic models under the hood. It can also use other models AFAIK. It cannot be "trained". Sorry if this comment sounds nitpicky, I'm just annoyed by the imprecise use of terminology.

Yeah it should really be about post-training a model for tool-use.

Re: Nanocode: The best Claude Code that $200 can buy in pure JAX on TPUs

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post #5

Tangential (but topical in that "The threat is comfortable drift toward not understanding what you're doing" is also on the front page): Is the generated python code in the example wrong? The prompt > Develop a Python function that removes any falsey values from a list. Return the modified list without creating a new one. Is answered with list comprehension, which makes a new list and leaves the original unmodified (…

Oh I wouldn't be surprised. This is a sample from one of the OSS code datasets I'd used, which are all generated synthetically using LLMs. Data is indeed the moat.

Re: Nanocode: The best Claude Code that $200 can buy in pure JAX on TPUs

#16

> This is a library showing you how to train your own Claude Code end-to-end. What does it even mean? Claude Code is a so called "harness" - a thing that builds a context for LLMs, calls LLMs, executes tool calls etc. It uses various Anthropic models under the hood. It can also use other models AFAIK. It cannot be "trained". Sorry if this comment sounds nitpicky, I'm just annoyed by the imprecise use of terminology.

I see what you mean, but I disagree. I expect that Claude Code is backed by a separate post-train of Claude base which has been trained using the Claude Code harness and toolset.

Re: Nanocode: The best Claude Code that $200 can buy in pure JAX on TPUs

#17
post #8

As someone with zero ML experience, this was a super interesting and digestible read!

agree, great educational tool ! tied a bunch of things around coding agents for me.

I appreciate the kind words very much : )

Re: Nanocode: The best Claude Code that $200 can buy in pure JAX on TPUs

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post #5

Tangential (but topical in that "The threat is comfortable drift toward not understanding what you're doing" is also on the front page): Is the generated python code in the example wrong? The prompt > Develop a Python function that removes any falsey values from a list. Return the modified list without creating a new one. Is answered with list comprehension, which makes a new list and leaves the original unmodified (…

your second function is the type of bad code you get from people trying to program python like its c

Re: Nanocode: The best Claude Code that $200 can buy in pure JAX on TPUs

#19
post #14

Does this really work? Does this how Anthropic works? Any practitioners can elaborate?

This is a gross simplification of the process - you would typically use order(s) of magnitude more data and compute, and a substantial amount of online reinforcement learning to elicit emergent tool use capabilities.

Many recent OSS models have great tech reports where you can learn more about these kind of things: Kimi 2.5 https://github.com/MoonshotAI/Kimi-K2.5/blob/master/tech_rep... GLM 5 https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.15763 DeepSeek R1 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2501.12948

Re: Nanocode: The best Claude Code that $200 can buy in pure JAX on TPUs

#20

> This is a library showing you how to train your own Claude Code end-to-end. What does it even mean? Claude Code is a so called "harness" - a thing that builds a context for LLMs, calls LLMs, executes tool calls etc. It uses various Anthropic models under the hood. It can also use other models AFAIK. It cannot be "trained". Sorry if this comment sounds nitpicky, I'm just annoyed by the imprecise use of terminology.

I see what you mean, but I disagree. I expect that Claude Code is backed by a separate post-train of Claude base which has been trained using the Claude Code harness and toolset.

It is possible of course, but I see no reason to believe it.
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