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Claude Code Is My Computer

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Re: Claude Code Is My Computer

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Post by jdance »

JustFinishedBSG wrote: post #66

I am quite honestly baffled by all these posts. I'm not a hardcore skeptic, at least I don't think so, I have tried most of the vibe coding tools, and I regularly try new ones and continue using many; and I do NOT have the experience described in all these posts. So two possibilities come to mind: 1. I, somehow, use every single one of those tools wrong. 2. Or; you and the other people raving about Claude code are so…

Yesterday I asked both claude and gemini to downgrade a package on manjaro and both failed miserably

I use these tools a lot and I would say they fail 50% of the time for my use cases and I baby them every step

”Is it just me” is such a flawed mindset. The reality is staring you in the face

Re: Claude Code Is My Computer

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Post by tasuki »

yoyohello13 wrote: post #67
simonw wrote: post #49

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What matters to me is that a human writer has verified the content and is ready to stake their reputation on it being worth my time to read. It sounds like that's what you've done here, in which case I don't feel that you are wasting my time by having me read something that you haven't even reviewed yourself.

I've been trying to organize my thoughts of how I feel about consuming AI generated content. This comment really encapsulates how I feel. As long as a human put time and effort into making something, then I'm willing to consider putting my effort toward reading/watching. If someone just spends 5 seconds to throw a prompt out there, that's when I get annoyed.

> As long as a human put time and effort into making something, then I'm willing to consider putting my effort toward reading/watching. If someone just spends 5 seconds to throw a prompt out there, that's when I get annoyed.

Why? Do you care more about the origin than the quality?

Re: Claude Code Is My Computer

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Post by tasuki »

rfoo wrote: post #80
simonw wrote: post #52

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I don't think that's true. What matters to me is the human editorial touch: I don't want to wade through 50 prompts and responses, I want a human author to have resolved that process into a final output that they think is worth sharing with me.

I think the correct benchmark is `len()`. Give me your prompts or your output, whichever is shorter.

No

Re: Claude Code Is My Computer

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Post by simonw »

MichaelZuo wrote: post #100
simonw wrote: post #99

Earlier quoted context omitted.

They provided receipts: https://github.com/steipete/steipete.me/pull/106

Where does it show “that the author provided a lot more input than the finished article“?

Every one of those 72 commits represents the author making a decision and having the LLM make edits based on that decision.

Re: Claude Code Is My Computer

#105

Post by adius »

hombre_fatal wrote: post #20
k__ wrote: post #5

The backup part is the crucial piece here. If you have reasonable guard rails for your AI, you can throw much more at it. Let it write tests before implementing something, ensure the code is in version control before promoting a change, etc.

Aside, I tried to move my ~/Code folder (where all my programming projects and work live) into the macOS iCloud folder so that everything would auto-sync. But the constant Git churn created a lot of traffic and collisions in that folder. And when I googled it, apparently it's just not a good idea to sync Git projects in iCloud. I really want to easily sync my folders so that I can just get a new macbook and recreate…

I’ve had all my personal projects in Dropbox for years without any problems.

I tried the same with Google Drive at work and had lots of issues, but recently it seems to have stabilized.

Re: Claude Code Is My Computer

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Post by Applejinx »

steipete wrote: post #51
nathanasmith wrote: post #46

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Readers would have been better served with the prompts you wrote than the AI generated output.

All ~50 prompts would take you have an hour to read and wouldn’t bring across my point nearly as good.

Well…

Re: Claude Code Is My Computer

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Post by hombre_fatal »

chime wrote: post #69
hombre_fatal wrote: post #20

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Aside, I tried to move my ~/Code folder (where all my programming projects and work live) into the macOS iCloud folder so that everything would auto-sync. But the constant Git churn created a lot of traffic and collisions in that folder. And when I googled it, apparently it's just not a good idea to sync Git projects in iCloud. I really want to easily sync my folders so that I can just get a new macbook and recreate…

TL;DR: Move your .git folders out of ~/Code into ~/Git/[reponame]. Use ln -s or plain text .git file[1]. I have my code folders in Dropbox on OSX but I believe my process should work for you. I work in node and have a number of monorepos with nested node_modules folders. I run my idempotent dev-files.command script [2] with or without "--nono" in any monorepo and it handles the entire git aliasing and dropbox folder…

Interesting, so it's as easy as putting `gitdir:{path}` in a .git file.

The downside is that git history is pretty useful, so it would suck to not sync it.

But you gave a real solution to the problem.

Edit: I remember now that one problem with iCloud was that doing something like switching Git branches or checking out commits causes a catastrophic sync cascade in the code folder itself.

Maybe Dropbox is better at dealing with that kind of thing in general. But that's pretty annoying for any syncing system to deal with, heh.

I guess the simplest solution is to just get into the habit of pushing every little project to github.

Re: Claude Code Is My Computer

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Post by [deleted] »

adius wrote: post #105
hombre_fatal wrote: post #20

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Aside, I tried to move my ~/Code folder (where all my programming projects and work live) into the macOS iCloud folder so that everything would auto-sync. But the constant Git churn created a lot of traffic and collisions in that folder. And when I googled it, apparently it's just not a good idea to sync Git projects in iCloud. I really want to easily sync my folders so that I can just get a new macbook and recreate…

I’ve had all my personal projects in Dropbox for years without any problems. I tried the same with Google Drive at work and had lots of issues, but recently it seems to have stabilized.

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Re: Claude Code Is My Computer

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Post by Eddy_Viscosity2 »

tasuki wrote: post #102
yoyohello13 wrote: post #67

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I've been trying to organize my thoughts of how I feel about consuming AI generated content. This comment really encapsulates how I feel. As long as a human put time and effort into making something, then I'm willing to consider putting my effort toward reading/watching. If someone just spends 5 seconds to throw a prompt out there, that's when I get annoyed.

> As long as a human put time and effort into making something, then I'm willing to consider putting my effort toward reading/watching. If someone just spends 5 seconds to throw a prompt out there, that's when I get annoyed. Why? Do you care more about the origin than the quality?

> Why? Do you care more about the origin than the quality?

Because they are linked. AI content can be generated so frivolously and at such volume you easily be overwhelmed by low quality garbage. Humans can also generate crap, but a much slower pace and I think that AI being so good at crap generation that it will push out any humans in the space that used to meek out any work here. So, what we are left with is AI content that is mostly low-effort crap, with maybe some rigorously reviewed bits that are good here and there, and the human-content which will mostly be people who care enough to make quality content otherwise they would be already posting AI schlock.

The end is that using AI as a proxy indicator for garbage will be right more than its wrong. So if I see something is AI generated, I should give it a pass and not waste my limited time resource on it.

Re: Claude Code Is My Computer

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Post by tough »

mostlysimilar wrote: post #92
akmarinov wrote: post #45

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https://vimeo.com/1088443203/37824a9349 Here you go

Looks miserable. Prompt, tweak, review, test, tweak, prompt, review, test, review, tweak, prompt, etc. Fiddling with settings windows in some black box software that belongs to someone else. Programming: a powerful skillset, one of the few things that can give you autonomy and agency besides money. Doable on basic computer hardware with no internet connection. Self-reinforcing, investing in yourself. Prompting: requi…

local open source llms can run on your HW

its nit really choosing one ot the other imho

they supplement each other

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