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Re: The creator of Claude Code's Claude setup

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Post by MattGaiser »

ex-aws-dude wrote: post #73
tmerr wrote: post #65

This is interesting to hear, but I don't understand how this workflow actually works. I don't need 10 parallel agents making 50-100 PRs a week, I need 1 agent that successfully solves the most important problem. I don't understand how you can generate requirements quicky enough to have 10 parallel agents chewing away at meaningful work. I don't understand how you can have any meaningful supervising role over 10 thing…

Yeah I don’t understand these posts recently with people running 10 at once Can someone give an example of what each of them would be doing? Are they just really slow, is that the problem?

Yep.

For one of the things I am doing, I am the solo developer on a web application. At any given point, there are 4-5 large features I want and I instruct Claude to heavily test those features, so it is not unusual for each to run for 30-45 minutes and for overall conversations to span several hours. People are correct that it often makes mistakes, so that testing phase usually uncovers a bunch of issues it has to fix.

I usually have 1-2 mop up terminal windows open for small things I notice as I go along that I want to fix. Claude can be bad about things like putting white text on a white button and I want a free terminal to just drop every little nitpick into it. They exist for me to just throw small tasks into. Yes, you really should start a new convo every need, but these are small things and I do not want to disrupt my flow.

There are another 2-3 for smaller features that I am regularly reviewing and resetting. And then another one dedicated to just running the tests already built over and over again and solving any failures or investigating things. Another one is for research to tell me things about the codebase.

Re: The creator of Claude Code's Claude setup

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Post by ahmadyan »

I had this ShowHN yesterday, which didn't grab much attention, so i'm using this opportunity as it seems relevant (it is a solution for running CC in parallel)

if you folks like to run parallel claude-code sessions, and like native terminal like Ghostty, i have a solution for using Git Worktree natively with Ghostty, it is called agentastic.dev, and it has a built-in Worktree/IDE/Diff/Codereview around Ghostty (macos only for now).

Would be happy to answer any questions

ShowHN post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46501758

Re: The creator of Claude Code's Claude setup

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Post by h33t-l4x0r »

Snakes3727 wrote: post #50
baalimago wrote: post #18

I'm a bit jealous. I would like to experiment with having a similar setup, but 10x Opus 4.5 running practically non stop must amount to a very high inference bill. Is it really worth the output? From experimentation, I need to coach the models quite closely in order to get enough value. Letting it loose only works when I've given very specific instructions. But I'm using Codex and Clai, perhaps Claude code is better.

I have a coworker who is basically doing this right now he leads our team and is second place overall. Regularly runs opus in parallel he alone is burning through 1k worth of credits a day. He is also one of our worst performers.

Wait, what is he second place at?

Re: The creator of Claude Code's Claude setup

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Post by copperx »

I'm afraid to ask, but because I've been very happy with Codex 5.2 CLI and I can't imagine Claude Code doing better, why is it Claude so loved around here?

Sure, I can spend $20 and figure it out, but I already pay $40/mo for two ChatGPT subs and that's enough to get me through a month.

Should I spend $20 to see for myself?

Re: The creator of Claude Code's Claude setup

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Post by xixixao »

hnroo99 wrote: post #80
aaronbrethorst wrote: post #17

He did a follow up with someone on Reddit and the answers were posted here: https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeAI/comments/1q2c0ne/comment/n... It offers a lot more context and I found it more helpful than the original twitter thread

50-100 PRs a week to me is insane. I'm a little skeptical and wonder how large/impactful they are. I use AI a lot and have seen significant productivity gains but not at that level lol.

For comparison, I remember doing 250 PRs in 2.5 months of my internship at FB (working on a fullstack web app). So that’s 2-4x faster. What’s interesting is that it’s Boris, not an intern (although the LLM can play an intern well).

Re: The creator of Claude Code's Claude setup

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Post by badestrand »

ex-aws-dude wrote: post #73
tmerr wrote: post #65

This is interesting to hear, but I don't understand how this workflow actually works. I don't need 10 parallel agents making 50-100 PRs a week, I need 1 agent that successfully solves the most important problem. I don't understand how you can generate requirements quicky enough to have 10 parallel agents chewing away at meaningful work. I don't understand how you can have any meaningful supervising role over 10 thing…

Yeah I don’t understand these posts recently with people running 10 at once Can someone give an example of what each of them would be doing? Are they just really slow, is that the problem?

For me it's their speed, yes. I only run 0-3 at a time, and often the problem at hand is very much not complex. For example "Take this component out of the file into its own file, including its styles." The agent may take 5 minutes for that and what do I do in the meantime? I can start another agent for the next task at hand.

Could also be a bug hunt "Sometimes we get an error message about XYZ, please investigate how that might happen." or "Please move setting XY from localstorage to cookies".

Re: The creator of Claude Code's Claude setup

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Post by exitb »

tmerr wrote: post #65

This is interesting to hear, but I don't understand how this workflow actually works. I don't need 10 parallel agents making 50-100 PRs a week, I need 1 agent that successfully solves the most important problem. I don't understand how you can generate requirements quicky enough to have 10 parallel agents chewing away at meaningful work. I don't understand how you can have any meaningful supervising role over 10 thing…

Multiple instances of agents are an equivalent to tabs in other applications - primarily holders of state, rather than means for extreme parallelism.

Re: The creator of Claude Code's Claude setup

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Post by xkbarkar »

breput wrote: post #64

This feels like the desperate, look at me! post, which is the exact opposite of Andrej Karpathy's recent tweet[0] about feeling left behind as a programmer, as covered on Hacker News[1]. I guess would want to see how sustainable this 5 parallel AI effort is, and are there demonstrably positive outcomes. There are plenty of "I one-shotted this" examples of something that already (mostly) existed, which are very impres…

This post brings another opinion to the thread and contributes to the discussion of pros and cons. Please stop downvoting because you disagree.

This isnt reddit No need for another fanatic echo chamber on the web.

Re: The creator of Claude Code's Claude setup

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Post by MattGaiser »

quijoteuniv wrote: post #71
tmerr wrote: post #65

This is interesting to hear, but I don't understand how this workflow actually works. I don't need 10 parallel agents making 50-100 PRs a week, I need 1 agent that successfully solves the most important problem. I don't understand how you can generate requirements quicky enough to have 10 parallel agents chewing away at meaningful work. I don't understand how you can have any meaningful supervising role over 10 thing…

This is it! “I don't need 10 parallel agents making 50-100 PRs a week, I need 1 agent that successfully solves the most important problem.”

Do you generally only have one problem? For me the use case is that I have numerous needs and Claude frees up time to work on some of the more complicated ones.

Re: The creator of Claude Code's Claude setup

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Post by giancarlostoro »

tmerr wrote: post #65

This is interesting to hear, but I don't understand how this workflow actually works. I don't need 10 parallel agents making 50-100 PRs a week, I need 1 agent that successfully solves the most important problem. I don't understand how you can generate requirements quicky enough to have 10 parallel agents chewing away at meaningful work. I don't understand how you can have any meaningful supervising role over 10 thing…

I use Beads which makes it more easy to grasp since its "tickets" for the agent, and I tell it what I want, it creates a bead (or "ticket") and then I ask it to do research, brain dump on it, and even ask it to ask me clarifying questions, and it updates the tasks, by the end once I have a few tasks with essentially a well defined prompt, I tell Claude to run x tasks in parallel, sometimes I dump a bunch of different tasks and ask it to research them all in parallel, and it fills them in, and I review. When it's all over, I test the code, look at the code, and mention any follow ups.

I guess it comes down to, how much do you trust the agent? If you don't trust it fully you want to inspect everything, which you still can, but you can choose to do it after it runs wild instead of every second it works.

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