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Re: 6 weeks of Claude Code

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Post by skydhash »

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…

> If there's a CLI tool, Claude can run it. If there's not a CLI tool... ask Claude anyway, you might be surprised.

No Claude Code needed for that! Just hang around r/unixporn and you'll collect enough scripts and tips to realize that mainstream OS have pushed computers from a useful tool to a consumerism toy.

Re: 6 weeks of Claude Code

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Post by skydhash »

qaq wrote: post #24

Another really nice use case building very sophisticated test tooling. Normally a company might not allocate enough resources to a task like that but with Claude Code it's a no brainer. Also can create very sophisticated mocks like say db mock that can parse all queries in the codebase and apply them to in memory fake tables. Would be total pain to build and maintain by hand but with claude code takes literally minut…

Hill I’m willing to die on (metaphorically):

If your test structure is a pain to interact with, that usually means some bad decisions somewhere in the architecture of your project.

Re: 6 weeks of Claude Code

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Post by arrowsmith »

ta555555 wrote: post #127
arrowsmith wrote: post #112

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

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Re: 6 weeks of Claude Code

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Post by softwaredoug »

I think it's possible Claude Code might be the most transformative piece of software since ChatGPT. It's a step towards an AI agent that can actually _act_ at a fundamental level - with any command that can be found on a computer - in a way that's beyond the sandboxed ChatGPT or even just driving a browser.

Re: 6 weeks of Claude Code

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Post by risyachka »

justlikereddit wrote: post #128
risyachka wrote: post #109

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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 f…

"mental strain" in a way of remembering/thinking hard is like muscle strain. You need it to be in shape otherwise it starts atrophying.

Re: 6 weeks of Claude Code

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Post by CharlesW »

baq wrote: post #66
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…

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.)

If you aren't already (1) telling Claude Code which flavor of SQL you want (there are several major dialects and many more minor ones) and (2) giving it access to up-to-date documentation via MCP (e.g. https://github.com/arabold/docs-mcp-server) so it has direct access to canonical docs for authoritative grounding and syntax references, you'll find that you get much better results by doing one or both of those things.

Re: 6 weeks of Claude Code

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Post by tiahura »

hkt wrote: post #81
jshen wrote: post #67

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The trick is to ask it to do more narrow tasks and design the structure of the code base yourself.

This. It helps to tell it to plan and to then interrogate it about that plan, change it to specification etc. Think of it as a refinement session before a pairing session. The results are considerably better if you do it this way. I've written kubernetes operators, flask applications, Kivy applications, and a transparent ssh proxy with Claude in the last two months, all outside of work. It also helps to tell it to wr…

As a hobbyist coder, the more time I spend brainstorming with all the platforms about specs and tests and architecture, the better the ultimate results.

Re: 6 weeks of Claude Code

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Post by lukaslalinsky »

asdev wrote: post #75
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…

I feel like Cursor gives the same experience without having to be in the terminal. I don't see how Claude Code is so much better

I really don't know what is it, but Claude Code just seems like an extremely well tuned package. You can have the same core models, but the internal prompts matter, how they are looking up extra context matters, how easy is it to add external context matters, how it applies changes matters, how eager is it to actually use an external tool to help you matters. With Claude Code, it just feels right. When I say I want a review, I get a review, when I want code, I get code, when I want just some git housekeeping, I get that.

Re: 6 weeks of Claude Code

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Post by buffer1337 »

turnsout wrote: post #125
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.

It's the difference between Claude making code that "looks good" and code that actually runs. You don't have to be stuck anymore saying, "hey help me fix this code." Say, "Use tmux to create a persistent session, then run this python program there and debug it until its working perfectly"

Re: 6 weeks of Claude Code

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Post by cpursley »

indigodaddy wrote: post #85
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…

Maybe instead try opencode or crush with Gemini/Google auth when your Claude Code hits the limit.

Gemini is shockingly, embarrassingly, shamefully bad (for something out of a company like Google). Even the open models like Qwen and Kimi are better on opencode.
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