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How I use every Claude Code feature

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Re: How I use every Claude Code feature

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Post by caymanjim »

simonw wrote: post #2

> Finally, we keep this file synced with an AGENTS.md file to maintain compatibility with other AI IDEs that our engineers might be using. I researched this the other day, the recommended (by Anthropic) way to do this is to have a CLAUDE.md with a single line in it: @AGENTS.md Then keep your actual content in the other file: https://docs.claude.com/en/docs/claude-code/claude-code-on-t...

In my experience, neither Claude nor any other agent actually reads AGENTS.md (or CLAUDE.md or anything else) without being told to explicitly every session.

Re: How I use every Claude Code feature

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Post by caymanjim »

prodigycorp wrote: post #67
thoughtsyntax wrote: post #54

Crazy how fast Claude Code is evolving, every week there’s something new to learn, and it just keeps getting better.

Nothing crazy about it, judging by how much CPU and memory it uses. Now, if it managed to grow features without bringing my M4 Mac with 64GB of ram to a crawl... that's be magic .

Claude doesn't do much of anything on the local machine. I run it on a Macbook Air and a piddly 2vCPU 4GB VPS. Works fine.

Re: How I use every Claude Code feature

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Post by NewsaHackO »

nxor wrote: post #127
freedomben wrote: post #118

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I have the same instinctive response to reading AI generated stuff, but I'm coming to a more moderate position where I'm trying to judge the content on the content itself. For example, in a post like this, it doesn't bother me at all because it's still an extremely useful reference, and the author clearly read through, organized, and edited the output. This is a good example of usage of AI in my opinion. The people w…

Not worried about hallucinations?

If the author wrote the draft then reread it throughly then it most likely would only have human induced hallucinations

Re: How I use every Claude Code feature

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Post by Keyframe »

BonoboIO wrote: post #16
abacadaba wrote: post #3

right on. i usually just tell it "hey go update this function to do [x]" in horribly misspelled english and then yell at it until it does it right

Sometimes I write with Claude in English and German mixed with really bad typos and it’s amazing how well it works.

wait until you start conversing with it. It's been a game changer for me how I use Claude CLI. It suits my workflow fine since my sessions are intense in focus I have to bring and I iterate with it; I just haven't found _a way_ where I can give it a large thing to work on and that it will not deviate. I do one focused thing at a time, review, test, alter code and then repeat. With voice mode it's been great since I can talk with it while walking fast on a treadmill. It's bizarre, star trekish, and it works. I wish I could have a stop word with whisper, since I do tend to think long between sentences in this mode, and I wish I could stop it with voice while it's talking, but I found a flow that it doesn't matter that much.

I suggest everyone who can to try the voice mode. https://getvoicemode.com/

Re: How I use every Claude Code feature

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Post by paulcole »

WickyNilliams wrote: post #76

"Claude Code isn’t just an interactive CLI; it’s also a powerful SDK for building entirely new agents—..." Em dash and "it's not X, it's Y" in one sentence. Tired of reading posts written by AI. Feels disrespectful to your readers

> Tired of reading posts written by AI.

Didn’t realize you were forced to read this?

> Feels disrespectful to your readers

I didn’t feel disrespected—I felt so respected I read the whole thing.

Re: How I use every Claude Code feature

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Post by majormajor »

michaelbuckbee wrote: post #95
netcraft wrote: post #18

I use claude code every day, and havent had a chance to dig super deep into skills, but even though ive read a lot of people describe them and say they're the best thing so far, I still dont get them. Theyre things the agent chooses to call right? They have different permissions? is it a tool call with different permissions and more context? I have yet to see a single post give an actual real-world concrete example o…

The prerequisite thought here is that you're using CC to invoke CLI tools. So now you need to get CC to understand _how_ to do that for various tools in a way that's context efficient, because otherwise you're relying on either potentially outdated knowledge that Claude has built in (leading to errors b/c CC doesn't know about recent versions) or chucking the entirety of a man page into your default context (ineffice…

What I find works best for complex things is having one session generate the plan and then dispatching new sessions for each step to prevent context-rot. Not "parallel agents" but "sequential agents."

Re: How I use every Claude Code feature

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Post by ta988 »

smokel wrote: post #126
noodletheworld wrote: post #97

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Claude is just better at coding than cursor. Really, the interface isn't a meaningful part of it. I also like cmd-L, but claude just does better at writing code. ...also, it's nice that Anthropic is just focusing on making cool stuff (like skills), while the folk from cursor are... I dunno. Whatever it is they're doing with cursor 2.0 :shrug:

Cursor can use the Claude Sonnet and Claude Opus LLMs, so I would expect output to be quite similar in that respect. The agentic part of the equation is improving on both sides all the time.

Claude Code is much more efficient even compared to Cursor using the Anthropic models. The planning and tool use is much better.

Re: How I use every Claude Code feature

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Post by jstummbillig »

embedding-shape wrote: post #122
allyant wrote: post #72

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This is one thing I think they need to get in-line with, and rename CLAUDE.md to AGENTS.md to follow convention.

To be fair, I think Anthropic/Claude started doing CLAUDE.md before AGENTS.md was a thing.

I'd say if we criticize that they did not think that far ahead, we are still pretty fair.

Re: How I use every Claude Code feature

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Post by maddmann »

sshh12 wrote: post #125
maddmann wrote: post #107

I really enjoyed reading this. One thought I had on the issue of paths in Claude.md My concern with hardcoding paths inside a doc, it will likely become outdated as the codebase evolves. One solution would be to script it and have it run pre commit to regenerate the Claude.md with the new paths. There probably is potential for even more dev tooling that 1. Ensure reference paths are always correct, 2. Enforces standa…

We have a linter that checks for this to help mitigate

You lint the file paths inside Claude.md?
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