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Re: A few random notes from Claude coding quite a bit last few weeks

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Post by YetAnotherNick »

einrealist wrote: post #55

> It's so interesting to watch an agent relentlessly work at something. They never get tired, they never get demoralized, they just keep going and trying things where a person would have given up long ago to fight another day. It's a "feel the AGI" moment to watch it struggle with something for a long time just to come out victorious 30 minutes later. Somewhere, there are GPUs/NPUs running hot. You send all the neces…

With optimizations and new hardware, power is almost a negligible cost. You can get 5.5M tokens/s/MW[1] for kimi k2(=20M/KWH=181M tokens/$) which is 400x cheaper than current pricing. It's just Nvidia/TSMC/other manufacturers eating up the profit now because they can. My bet is that China will match current Nvidia within 5 years.

[1]: https://developer-blogs.nvidia.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/0...

Re: A few random notes from Claude coding quite a bit last few weeks

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Post by [deleted] »

Macha wrote: post #80

> - What does LLM coding feel like in the future? Is it like playing StarCraft? Playing Factorio? Playing music? Starcraft and Factorio are exactly what it is not. Starcraft has a loooot of micro involved at any level beyond mid level play, despite all the "pro macros and beats gold league with mass queens" meme videos. I guess it could be like Factorio if you're playing it by plugging together blueprint books from o…

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Re: A few random notes from Claude coding quite a bit last few weeks

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Post by twa927 »

ValentineC wrote: post #128
twa927 wrote: post #121

I don't see the AI capacity jump in the recent months at all. For me it's more the opposite, CC works worse than a few months ago. Keeps forgetting the rules from CLAUDE.md, hallucinates function calls, generates tons of over-verbose plans, generates overengineered code. Where I find it a clear net-positive is pure frontend code (HTML + Tailwind), it's spaghetti but since it's just visualization, it's OK.

> Where I find it a clear net-positive is pure frontend code (HTML + Tailwind), it's spaghetti but since it's just visualization, it's OK. This makes it sound like we're back in the days of FrontPage/Dreamweaver WYSIWYG. Goodness.

Hmm, your comment gave me the idea that maybe we should invent "What You Describe Is What You Get|. To replace HTML+Tailwind spaghetti with prompts generating it.

Re: A few random notes from Claude coding quite a bit last few weeks

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Post by simianwords »

fooker wrote: post #139
simianwords wrote: post #117

Earlier quoted context omitted.

interesting post. i wonder if these people go back and introspect on how incorrect they have been? do they feel the need to address it?

No, people do not do that. This is harmless when it comes to tech opinions but causes real damage in politics and activism. People get really attached to ideals and ideas, and keep sticking to those after they fail to work again and again.

i don't think it is harmless or we are incentivising people to just say whatever they want without any care for truth. people's reputations should be attached to their predictions.

Re: A few random notes from Claude coding quite a bit last few weeks

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Post by willio58 »

peaseagee wrote: post #101
fooker wrote: post #94

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> It might become cheaper or it might not If it does not, this is going to be first technology in the history of mankind that has not become cheaper. (But anyway, it already costs half compared to last year)

That's not true. Many technologies get more expensive over time, as labor gets more expensive or as certain skills fall by the wayside, not everything is mass market. Have you tried getting a grandfather clock repaired lately?

Repairing grandfather clocks isn't more expensive now because it's gotten any harder; it's because the popularity of grandfather clocks is basically nonexistent compared to anything else to tell time.

Re: A few random notes from Claude coding quite a bit last few weeks

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Post by fragmede »

gtowey wrote: post #105
daxfohl wrote: post #88

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I still find in these instances there's at least a 50% chance it has taken a shortcut somewhere: created a new, bigger bug in something that just happened not to have a unit test covering it, or broke an "implicit" requirement that was so obvious to any reasonable human that nobody thought to document it. These can be subtle because you're not looking for them, because no human would ever think to do such a thing. Th…

The value extortion plan writes itself. How long before someone pitches the idea that the models explicitly almost keep solving your problem to get you to keep spending? Would you even know?

The free market proposition is that competition (especially with Chinese labs and grok) means that Anthropic is welcome to do that. They're even welcome to illegally collude with OpenAi such that ChatGPT is similarly gimped. But switching costs are pretty low. If it turns out I can one shot an issue with Qwen or Deepseek or Kimi thinking, Anthropic loses not just my monthly subscription, but everyone else's I show that too. So no, I think that's some grade A conspiracy theory nonsense you've got there.

Re: A few random notes from Claude coding quite a bit last few weeks

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Post by superze »

I don't know about you guys but most of the time it's spitting nonsense models in sqlalchemy and I have to constantly correct it to the point where I am back at writing the code myself. The bugs are just astonishing and I lose control of the codebase after some time to the point where reviewing the whole thing just takes a lot of time.

On the contrary if it was for a job in a public sector I would just let the LLM spit out some output and play stupid, since salary is very low.

Re: A few random notes from Claude coding quite a bit last few weeks

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Post by techpression »

simianwords wrote: post #111
oytis wrote: post #108

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That it's not getting cheaper?

you are wrong. https://epoch.ai/data-insights/llm-inference-price-trends this is accounting for the fact that more tokens are used.

The chart shows that they’re right though. Newer models cost more than older models. Sure they’re better but that’s moot if older models are not available or can’t solve the problem they’re tasked with.

Re: A few random notes from Claude coding quite a bit last few weeks

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Post by baq »

testaccount28 wrote: post #129
charcircuit wrote: post #123

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You are using it wrong, or are using a weak model if your failure rate is over 50%. My experience is nothing like this. It very consistently works for me. Maybe there is a <5% chance it takes the wrong approach, but you can quickly steer it in the right direction.

you are using it on easy questions. some of us are not.

Don’t use it for hard questions like this then; you wouldn’t use a hammer to cut a plank, you’d try to make a saw instead

Re: A few random notes from Claude coding quite a bit last few weeks

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Post by hollowturtle »

simianwords wrote: post #116
hollowturtle wrote: post #32

> Coding workflow. Given the latest lift in LLM coding capability, like many others I rapidly went from about 80% manual+autocomplete coding and 20% agents in November to 80% agent coding and 20% edits+touchups in December Anyone wondering what exactly is he actually building? What? Where? > The mistakes have changed a lot - they are not simple syntax errors anymore, they are subtle conceptual errors that a slightly…

This is a low quality curmudgeonly comment

Now that you contributed zero net to the discussion and learned a new word you can go out and play with toys! Good job
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