How many times can I read the same shallow guidance written by AI on using a coding agent? Good god when will it stop
Claude Code as a Daily Driver: Claude.md, Skills, Subagents, Plugins, and MCPs
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Re: Claude Code as a Daily Driver: Claude.md, Skills, Subagents, Plugins, and MCPs
#102I've been using Claude to work on a medium-sized (100+kLoc) codebase, and it's a great productivity multiplier. Putting hours into creating a good AGENTS file is more improved results a lot. I find that over time it picks up the codebase quite well. Tedious tasks that would take a day are now a matter of a few prompts. Still... I'm not ready to give it more autonomy. Even as it gets high-level things quite well, I st…
Try to quantify those 3-4 rounds of tweaks into a set of rules to put into your AGENTS. Instead of iterating, have it start over from AGENTS file and see if it's correct now.
Re: Claude Code as a Daily Driver: Claude.md, Skills, Subagents, Plugins, and MCPs
#103To me, this kind of talk exhibits the very cultish and con side of the whole genAI train. In a way, it does a poor job especially when the intent is positive about the technology, it sheds a bad look on it. Generally, and more so with paid products, one should expect to get something that is ready to be used, tuned by who's selling it at the best of their efforts. Instead, this is basically saying that the product is…
I understand and sympathize with this point of view. I would just say this: there is a difference between advice for using a product, and for _optimizing_ your use of a product. Between a user and a power user. I think devs probably disproportionately like to see themselves as power users of any given tool, and thus with coding agents, there are 1000 "systems" being thrown out on GitHub on any given day. Generally sp…
I absolutely understand the power user perspective. The point is not that, and maybe I wasn't clear enough in pointing it out.
Here, something different is going on instead of the usual "base tool is ok for 90% of use cases, remaining 10% is covered by plugins and extensions". A lot of developers are finding it difficult to commit to agentic coding workflows, feeling a stretch on a lot of different aspects.
Companies, with the help of a very prominent and vocal part of the web and social media community, are addressing every issue by simply blaming the users, saying it's their fault if they're not keeping up with all the alleged advancements in prompt strategies. See the whole "maybe you haven't tried it in the last two months, everything's changed now". While it's true that things have been moving very fast, the fundamental idea behind the technology is the same, and some concerns about it simply cannot be wiped away by scaling some factors.
Re: Claude Code as a Daily Driver: Claude.md, Skills, Subagents, Plugins, and MCPs
#104How many times can I read the same shallow guidance written by AI on using a coding agent? Good god when will it stop
You took the time to write out this comment. To the benefit of those who read it, please expand upon where the article is shallow and what content you miss.
Re: Claude Code as a Daily Driver: Claude.md, Skills, Subagents, Plugins, and MCPs
#105How many times can I read the same shallow guidance written by AI on using a coding agent? Good god when will it stop
You took the time to write out this comment. To the benefit of those who read it, please expand upon where the article is shallow and what content you miss.
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Re: Claude Code as a Daily Driver: Claude.md, Skills, Subagents, Plugins, and MCPs
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Re: Claude Code as a Daily Driver: Claude.md, Skills, Subagents, Plugins, and MCPs
#107I've been using Claude to work on a medium-sized (100+kLoc) codebase, and it's a great productivity multiplier. Putting hours into creating a good AGENTS file is more improved results a lot. I find that over time it picks up the codebase quite well. Tedious tasks that would take a day are now a matter of a few prompts. Still... I'm not ready to give it more autonomy. Even as it gets high-level things quite well, I st…
Try to quantify those 3-4 rounds of tweaks into a set of rules to put into your AGENTS. Instead of iterating, have it start over from AGENTS file and see if it's correct now.
Ngl, that’s gold right here. I’ve been trying to automate my sessions, and what I’ve found cool is that you can ask Claude about how to improve on how to ask Claude things, and from there ask Claude to iterate on your session cycles
Re: Claude Code as a Daily Driver: Claude.md, Skills, Subagents, Plugins, and MCPs
#108Earlier quoted context omitted.
I assume it will be similar to when a person is out sick or on vacation. Another person on the team likely could take over the work for a day, but realistically it just sits until they're is back.
So work stops until Claude is back? What if Claude comes back and costs 10x the amount? The answer is obviously that you'll "bend over" and pay, because the AI vendor who convinced you that Claude is so great owns you, your codebase, and by extension your company now.
In such a scenario, are you assuming Anthropic has a monopoly? Or are all LLM providers callusing on prices?
Re: Claude Code as a Daily Driver: Claude.md, Skills, Subagents, Plugins, and MCPs
#109The author’s claim that Claude is a multiplier for skill is probably true for now but it also feels like cope inspired by usability issues with Claude. The advice is all good, but none of it is especially clever or impressive or hard to grasp. The multiplier just comes from the fact that anthropic hadn’t taken this essay and several similar ones and incorporated their feedback into the product. This is a pretty shall…
My complaint with anthropic is actually the opposite. They seem too focused on building this suite of products (because they want lock-in), but they can’t even get the availability and speed on their models in an acceptable state. It really does seem like they’re falling behind google and OpenAI at the moment.
Re: Claude Code as a Daily Driver: Claude.md, Skills, Subagents, Plugins, and MCPs
#110The reliance on context to drive correct actions just doesn't work well. I am constantly wrestling with AI agents that do not do what you tell them. Every AI agent out there seems to suck in this regard, leaving it up to the user to build in their own guardrails. I have a bad feeling that nobody is working on an improved solution.
I’ve seen no reason to believe it’s even possible to solve this.
The worst thing about LLMs is they can pass the Turing test, leading people to believe they have an Asimov style robot instead of a very cool statistical model. It feels like they should be able to follow instructions or keep instructions from content separate, but that’s not what’s happening.