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Snorting the AGI with Claude Code

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Re: Snorting the AGI with Claude Code

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Post by bcrosby95 »

smallnamespace wrote: post #77
sally_glance wrote: post #70

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Who or what will review the 5 PRs (including their updates to automated tests)? If it's just yet another agent, do we need 5 of these reviews for each PR too? In the end, you either concede control over 'details' and just trust the output or you spend the effort and validate results manually. Not saying either is bad.

If you can define your problem well then you can write tests up front. An ML person would call tests a "verifier". Verifiers let you pump compute into finding solutions.

I'm not sure we write good tests for this because we assume some kind of logic involved here. If you set a human to task to write a procedure to send a 'forgot password' email, I can be reasonably sure there's a limited number of things a human would do with the provided email address, because it takes time and effort to do more than you should.

However with an LLM I'm not so sure. So how will you write a test to validate this is done but also guarantee it doesn't add the email to a blacklist? A whitelist? A list of admin emails? Or the tens of other things you can do with an email within your system?

Re: Snorting the AGI with Claude Code

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Post by mjrbrennan »

WD-42 wrote: post #127
mjrbrennan wrote: post #99

Not trying to be rude here, but that `last_week.md` is horrible to me. I can't imagine having to read that let alone listen to the computer say it to me. It's so much blah blah and fluff that reads like a bad PR piece. I'd much rather scan through commits of the last week. I've found this generally with AI summaries...usually their writing style is terrible, and I feel like I cannot really trust them to get the facts…

I felt the same thing about the onboarding. Like what future are we trying to build for ourselves here, exactly? The kind where instead of sitting down with a coworker to learn about a codebase, instead we get an ai generated PowerPoint to read alone???? Im so over this timeline.

Yes that's what gets me too. I want to engage with my coworkers, you know other humans? And get their ideas and input and summaries. Not just sit in my office alone having the computer explain everything to me badly, or read through Powerpoints of all things...

Re: Snorting the AGI with Claude Code

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Post by Syzygies »

No mention of Opus there or here (so far).

Having tried everything I settled on a $100/month Anthropic "Max" plan to use Claude Code. Then I learned how Claude Opus 4 is currently their best but most expensive model for my situation (math code and research). I limited out of a five hour session, switched to their API, and burned $20 in an hour. So I upgraded to $200/month "Max" and haven't hit limits yet.

Models matter. All these stories are like "I met a person who wasn't that smart." Duh!

Re: Snorting the AGI with Claude Code

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Post by citizenpaul »

dirtbag__dad wrote: post #85

This article is inspiring. I haven’t had the moment to get my head out of the Cursor + biz logic water until now. Very cool to think about LLMs automagically creating changelogs, testing packaging when dependencies are bumped, forcing unit tests on features. Is anyone aware of something like this? Maybe in the GitHub actions or pre-commit world?

>automagically creating changelogs, testing packaging when dependencies are bumped, forcing unit tests on features.

Yeah now companies that paid lip service to those things can still not have them but pretend they do cause the AI did it....

Re: Snorting the AGI with Claude Code

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Post by TZubiri »

mjrbrennan wrote: post #99

Not trying to be rude here, but that `last_week.md` is horrible to me. I can't imagine having to read that let alone listen to the computer say it to me. It's so much blah blah and fluff that reads like a bad PR piece. I'd much rather scan through commits of the last week. I've found this generally with AI summaries...usually their writing style is terrible, and I feel like I cannot really trust them to get the facts…

Remember the sycophant bug? Maybe making the user FEELGOOD is part of what makes it feel smart or like a good experience. Is the reward function being smart? Is it maximizing interaction? Does it conflict with being accurate?

Re: Snorting the AGI with Claude Code

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Post by Agentlien »

JohnMakin wrote: post #134
WD-42 wrote: post #127

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I felt the same thing about the onboarding. Like what future are we trying to build for ourselves here, exactly? The kind where instead of sitting down with a coworker to learn about a codebase, instead we get an ai generated PowerPoint to read alone???? Im so over this timeline.

all of this just reads like the supposed UML zeitgeist that was supposed to transform java and eliminate development 20 years ago if this is all ultimately java but with even more steps, its a sign im definitely getting old. it’s just the same pattern of non technical people deceiving themselves into believing they dont need to be technical to build tech and then ultimately resulting in again 10-20 years of re-learni…

Of all the things I read at uni UML is the thing I've felt the least use for - even when designing new systems. I've had more use for things I never thought I'd need like Rayleigh scattering and processor design.

Re: Snorting the AGI with Claude Code

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Post by jumski »

Great article! I have similar observations and techniques and Claude Code is exceptionally good - most of the days I'm working on multiple things at once (thanks to git worktrees) and each going faster than ever - that's really crazy.

For the "sub agents"thing, I must admit, that Claude Code calling o3 via sigoden/aichat saved me countless of times!

There are just issues that o3 excells at (race conditions, bug hunting - anything that requires lot of context and really high reasoning abilities).

But I'm using it less since Opus 4 came out. And of course its none of the sub-agent thing at all.

I use this prompt @included in the main CLAUDE.md: https://github.com/pgflow-dev/pgflow/blob/main/.claude/advan...

sigoden/aichat: https://github.com/sigoden/aichat

Re: Snorting the AGI with Claude Code

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Post by cpard »

SamPatt wrote: post #3

>Claude code feels more powerful than cursor, but why? One of the reasons seems it's ability to be scripted. At the end of the day, cursor is an editor, while claude code is a swiss army knife (on steroids). Agreed, and I find that I use Claude Code on more than traditional code bases. I run it in my Obsidian vault for all kinds of things. I run it to build local custom keyboard bindings with scripts that publish scr…

How do you script Claude code? I've been using it as a CLI but haven't thought of invoking Claude code through a script, sounds very interesting.
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