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Because at some point, Anthropic needs to stop hemorrhaging money and actually make some.
Uber, founded in 2009 was finally profitable in 2023. That's a bit longer than 6 months.
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How Anthropic teams use Claude Code
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Re: How Anthropic teams use Claude Code
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Thanks for the tip - we employees should run and re-run the code generation hundreds of times even if the changes are pretty good. That way, the brass will see a huge bill without many actual commits. Sorry boss, it looks like we need to hire more software engineers since the AI route still isn't mathing.
Unironically this can actually be a good idea. Instead of "rerunning," run in parallel. Then pick the best solution. Pros: - Saved Time! - Scalable! - Big Bill? Cons: - Big Bill - AI written code
Usually, when you re-run, you change your prompt based on the initial results. You can't just run several tasks in parallel hoping for one of them to complete.
Re: How Anthropic teams use Claude Code
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At least when you tell a human the indentation is wrong, they can fix it on the first try. Watched an AI agent last night try to fix indentation by using sed for 20 minutes before I just fixed it myself after cringing.
I mean... this is a deterministic task, can just run it through autoformatter? Why ask AI to do indentation of all things?
One time I explained that I was afraid of tesla full self driving, because while using it my tesla accelerated to 45mph in a parking lot that was parallel to the road and only separated by a curb. The pushback I got was "Why would you use FSD in a parking lot". Well, "Full", right?
Same here. It's either capable of working unsupervised or not. And if not, you have to start wondering what you're even doing if you're at your keyboard, running tools, editing code that you don't like, etc.
We're still working out the edge cases with these "Full" self driving editors. It vastly diminishes the usefulness if it's going to spend 20 minutes (and $) on stupid simple things.
Re: How Anthropic teams use Claude Code
#144Wonder what the context window is for Claude Code for internal users
Not as much as the $200 month account, that's for fucking certain.
Re: How Anthropic teams use Claude Code
#145Anthropic goes hard on the virtue signalling but I still don’t get how anyone manages to satisfy “Customer may not and must not attempt to (a) access the Services to build a competing product or service” So I just avoid it and generally think the whole thing isn’t serious, because nobody seems to care enough about the safety implications of building AGI with legal terms which are logically impossible to satisfy to de…
That's reason enough to leave, if them having one 9 of reliability of the service is not enough.
Re: How Anthropic teams use Claude Code
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Have you seen human-written code?
I've taught undergraduates and graduates how to code. I've contributed to Open Source projects. I'm a researcher and write research code with other people who write research code. You could say I've seen A LOT of poorly written human generated code. Yet, I still trust it more. Why? Well one of the big reasons is exactly what we're joking about. I can trust a human to iterate. Lack of iteration would be fine if everyt…
> Lack of iteration
What makes you think that agents can't iterate?
> I'm going to throw them out if they are just constantly showering me with praise and telling me how much of a genius I am
You can tell the agent to have the persona of an arrogant ass if you prefer it.
Re: How Anthropic teams use Claude Code
#147A repeated trend is that Claude Code only gets 70-80% of the way, which is fine and something I wish was emphasized more by people pushing agents. This bullet point is funny: > Treat it like a slot machine > Save your state before letting Claude work, let it run for 30 minutes, then either accept the result or start fresh rather than trying to wrestle with corrections. Starting over often has a higher success rate th…
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Re: How Anthropic teams use Claude Code
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Meanwhile I ask it to write what I think are trivial functions and it gets them subtly wrong, but obvious in testing. I would be more suspicious if I were you.
Ask it to write tests first and then implement based on the tests, don't let it change the tests.
On more than one occasion I've asked for a change, indicated that the surrounding code was under test, told it not to change the tests, and it off it goes making something that is slightly wrong and rewrites the tests to compensate.
Re: How Anthropic teams use Claude Code
#149@dang looks like HN ate the leading “How” in the title.
It's intentional. Imagine a blog post 'How I whizzed foobars to optimise my Home Assistant garbage collection' - it's unnecessary filler. I agree it has times like this it doesn't work and makes the title worse though. The submitter can edit it, and this reformatting (and others) are not applied again.
why use many word, etc
Re: How Anthropic teams use Claude Code
#150Earlier quoted context omitted.
Thanks for the tip - we employees should run and re-run the code generation hundreds of times even if the changes are pretty good. That way, the brass will see a huge bill without many actual commits. Sorry boss, it looks like we need to hire more software engineers since the AI route still isn't mathing.
> we employees should run and re-run the code generation hundreds of times Well, Anthropic sure thinks that you should. Number go up!
It is accurate though. I even run multiple attempts in parallel. Which is a strategy that can work with human teams too.