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Re: 6 weeks of Claude Code

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Post by fantasizr »

arrowsmith wrote: post #101

The real power of Claude Code comes when you realise it can do far more than just write code. It can, in fact, control your entire computer. If there's a CLI tool, Claude can run it. If there's not a CLI tool... ask Claude anyway, you might be surprised. E.g. I've used Claude to crop and resize images, rip MP3s from YouTube videos, trim silence from audio files, the list goes on. It saves me incredible amounts of tim…

I learned the hard old fashioned way how to build a imagemagick/mogrify command. Having the ai tools assist saves a crazy amount of time.

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Post by danielbln »

risyachka wrote: post #100
baq wrote: post #66

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Fascinating since I found the recent Claude models untrustworthy for writing and editing SQL. E.g. it'd write conditions correctly, but not add parens around ANDs and ORs (which gemini pro then highlighted as a bug, correctly.)

I bet it highly depends on the work you do. It is very useful for simpler tasks like writing tests, converting code bases etc where the hard part is already done. When it comes to actually doing something hard - it is not very useful at least in my experience. And if you do something even a bit niche - it is mostly useless and its faster do dig into topic on your own that try to have Claude implement it.

Even when I hand roll certain things, it still nice to have Claude Code take over any other grunt work that might come my way. And there are always yaks to shave, always.

Re: 6 weeks of Claude Code

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Post by rane »

risyachka wrote: post #104
rane wrote: post #82

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Having used Claude Code extensively for the last few months, I still haven't reached this "until it isn't" point. Review the code that comes out. It goes a long way.

>> Review the code that comes out. It goes a long way. Sure, but if I do 5 reviews for a task - in 99% of cases it is net negative as it is faster to DIY it at that point. Harder for sure, but faster.

Maybe our brains are wired different but reading and reviewing code is way faster for me than writing it.

Re: 6 weeks of Claude Code

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Post by floppyd »

Anybody had similarly good experience with Gemini CLI? I'm only a hobbyist coder, so paying for Claude feels silly when Gemini is free (at least for now), but so far I've only used it inside Cline-like extensions

Re: 6 weeks of Claude Code

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Post by turnsout »

buffer1337 wrote: post #84

I've been using Claude code 12-16 hours a day since I first got it running two weeks ago. Here's the tips I've discovered: 1. Immediately change to sonnet (the cli defaults to opus for max users). I tested coding with opus extensively and it never matches the quality of sonnet. 2. Compacting often ends progress - it's difficult to get back to the same quality of code after compacting. 3. First prompt is very importan…

I'm fascinated by #5. As someone who goes out of my way to avoid Docker while realizing its importance, I would love to know the general format of your prompt.

Re: 6 weeks of Claude Code

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Post by ta555555 »

arrowsmith wrote: post #112
danielbln wrote: post #108

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's the automators dream come true. Anything can be automated, anything scripted, anything documented. Even if we're gonna use other (possibly local) models in the future, this will be my interface of choice. It's so powerful.

Yes, Claude has killed XKCD 1319: https://xkcd.com/1319/ Automation is now trivially easy. I think of another new way to speed up my workflow — e.g. a shell script for some annoying repetitive task — and Claude oneshots it. Productivity gains built from productivity gains.

It hasn't killed anything. Might have reduced the time for some tasks. Try something not trivial and you still spend more than you save.

Re: 6 weeks of Claude Code

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Post by justlikereddit »

risyachka wrote: post #109
arrowsmith wrote: post #101

The real power of Claude Code comes when you realise it can do far more than just write code. It can, in fact, control your entire computer. If there's a CLI tool, Claude can run it. If there's not a CLI tool... ask Claude anyway, you might be surprised. E.g. I've used Claude to crop and resize images, rip MP3s from YouTube videos, trim silence from audio files, the list goes on. It saves me incredible amounts of tim…

Its all great until >> I thought I would see a pretty drastic change in terms of Pull Requests, Commits and Line of Code merged in the last 6 weeks. I don’t think that holds water though The chart basically shows same output with claude than before. Which kinda represents what I felt when using LLMs. You "feel" more productive and you definitely feel "better" because you don't do the work now, you babysit the model a…

I've been exploring vibe coding lately and by far the biggest benefit is the lack of mental strain.

You don't have to try to remember your code as a conceptual whole, what your technical implementation of the next hour of code was going to be like at the same time as a stubborn bug is taunting you.

You just ask Mr smartybots and it deliver anything between proofreading and documentation and whatnot, with some minor fuckups occasionally

Re: 6 weeks of Claude Code

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Post by qsort »

Aurornis wrote: post #77
lukaslalinsky wrote: post #57

I have about two weeks of using Claude Code and to be honest, as a vibe coding skeptic, I was amazed. It has a learning curve. You need to learn how to give it proper context, how to chunk up the work, etc. And you need to know how to program, obviously. Asking it to do something you don't know how to do, that's just asking for a disaster. I have more than 25 years of experience, so I'm confident with anything Claude…

> as a vibe coding skeptic, I was amazed. The interesting thing about all of this vibe coding skepticism, cynicism, and backlash is that many people have their expectations set extremely low. They’re convinced everything the tools produce will be junk or that the worst case examples people provide are representative of the average. Then they finally go out and use the tools and realize that they exceed their (extreme…

People are using different definitions of "vibe coding". If you expect to just prompt without even looking at the code and being involved in the process the result will be crap. This doesn't preclude the usefulness of models as tools, and maybe in the future vibe coding will actually work. Essentially every coder I respect has an opinion that is some shade of this.

There are the social media types you mention and their polar opposites, the "LLMs have no possible use" crowd. These people are mostly delusional. At the grown-ups table, there is a spectrum of opinions about the relative usefulness.

It's not contradictory to believe that the average programmer right now has his head buried in the sand and should at least take time to explore what value LLMs can provide, while at the same time taking a more conservative approach when using them to do actual work.

Re: 6 weeks of Claude Code

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Post by isoprophlex »

wjnc wrote: post #120

Over the holidays I built a plan for an app that would be worthwhile to my children, oldest son first. That plan developed to several thousand words of planning documents (MVP, technical stack, layout). That was just me lying in the sun with Claude on mobile. Today I (not a programmer, although programming for 20+ years, but mostly statistics) started building with Claude Code via Pro. Burned through my credits in ab…

Burning through your credits is normal. We're in the "lmao free money"/"corner the market" phase, where anthropic offers claude code at a loss.

Recently they had to lower token allowances because they're haemorrhaging money.

You can run "ccusage" in the background to keep tabs, so you're leas surprised, is all I can say.

Enjoy the cheap inference while you can, unless someone cracks the efficiency puzzle the frontier models might get a lot more expensive at one point.

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