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Re: The creator of Claude Code's Claude setup

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Post by roncesvalles »

AtlasBarfed wrote: post #132
tmerr wrote: post #65

This is interesting to hear, but I don't understand how this workflow actually works. I don't need 10 parallel agents making 50-100 PRs a week, I need 1 agent that successfully solves the most important problem. I don't understand how you can generate requirements quicky enough to have 10 parallel agents chewing away at meaningful work. I don't understand how you can have any meaningful supervising role over 10 thing…

Claude is absolutely plastering Facebook with this bullshit. Every PR Claude makes needs to be reviewed. Every single one. So great! You have 10 instances of Claude doing things. Great! You're still going to need to do 10 reviews.

Facebook, Reddit, and LinkedIn are all being heavily astroturfed by Anthropic people to oversell the usefulness of Claude Code. It's actually wild.

Re: The creator of Claude Code's Claude setup

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Post by roncesvalles »

llmslave2 wrote: post #28

Couple things stand out to me: 1) everyone on the team uses Claude code differently. 2) Claude Code has been around for almost a year and is being built by an entire team, yet doesn't seem to have benefited from this approach. The program is becoming buggier and less reliable over time, and development speed seems indistinguishable from anything else. 3) Everything this person says should be taken with a massive grai…

>Everything this person says should be taken with a massive grain of salt considering their various conflicts of interest.

Exactly, he has to dogfood it. He can't just say "actually this is a massively annoying way of developing software and probably slows me down".

Re: The creator of Claude Code's Claude setup

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Post by northern-lights »

hnroo99 wrote: post #80
aaronbrethorst wrote: post #17

He did a follow up with someone on Reddit and the answers were posted here: https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeAI/comments/1q2c0ne/comment/n... It offers a lot more context and I found it more helpful than the original twitter thread

50-100 PRs a week to me is insane. I'm a little skeptical and wonder how large/impactful they are. I use AI a lot and have seen significant productivity gains but not at that level lol.

Because he is working on a product that is hot and has demand from the users for new features/bug fixes/whatnot and also gets visibility on getting such things delivered. Most of us don't work on products that have that on a daily basis.

Re: The creator of Claude Code's Claude setup

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Post by jedberg »

baq wrote: post #145
TheRoque wrote: post #126

Earlier quoted context omitted.

For people with astigmatism, black in white is generally easier to read than the other way around: https://graphicdesign.stackexchange.com/questions/15142/whic... Of your criteria is battery life, dark mode is most likely better If your criteria is eye damage/strain, then IIRC the research is divided on this topic

dark mode is easier on battery for OLEDs but not on LCDs where black needs the pixel to be fully active (white is off, black is on). black on white is easier to read than white on black full stop, no astigmatism necessary. https://esa.org/communication-engagement/2018/08/03/resource... ambient lightning is highly recommended to not strain your vision.

The link you shared literally says neither is better and it depends on the person.

Re: The creator of Claude Code's Claude setup

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Post by me_bx »

TheRoque wrote: post #119
csomar wrote: post #84

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's all smokes really. Claude Code is an unreliable piece of software and yet one of the better ones in LLM-Coding. ( https://github.com/anthropics/claude-code/issues ). That and I highly suspect it's mostly engineers who are working on it instead of LLMs. Google itself with all its resources and engineers can't come up with a half-decent CLI for coding. Reminder: The guy works for Claude. Claude is over-hyping LLMs…

Gemini CLI is decent.

Is it?

Yesterday, gemini told me to run this:

    echo 'export ANDROID_HOME=/opt/my-user/android-sdk' > ~/.bashrc
Which would have effectively overriden my whole bashrc config if I had blindly copy-pasted it.

A few minutes later, asking it to create a .gitignore file for the current project - right after generating a private key, it failed to include the private key file to the .gitignore.

I don't see yet how these tools can be labeled as 'major productivity boosters' if you loose basic security and privacy with them...

Re: The creator of Claude Code's Claude setup

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Post by yoz-y »

exitb wrote: post #107
tmerr wrote: post #65

This is interesting to hear, but I don't understand how this workflow actually works. I don't need 10 parallel agents making 50-100 PRs a week, I need 1 agent that successfully solves the most important problem. I don't understand how you can generate requirements quicky enough to have 10 parallel agents chewing away at meaningful work. I don't understand how you can have any meaningful supervising role over 10 thing…

Multiple instances of agents are an equivalent to tabs in other applications - primarily holders of state, rather than means for extreme parallelism.

I have not used Claude. But my experience with Gemini and aider is that multiple instances of agents will absolutely stomp over each other. Even in a single sessions overwriting my changes after telling the agent that I did modifications will often result in clobbering.

Re: The creator of Claude Code's Claude setup

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Post by rdiddly »

I feel like it's time for me to hang up this career. Prompting is boring, and doing it 5 times at once is just annoying multitasking. I know I'm mostly in it for the money, but at least there used to be a feeling of accomplishment sometimes. Now it's like, whose accomplishment is it?

Re: The creator of Claude Code's Claude setup

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Post by vidarh »

ex-aws-dude wrote: post #73
tmerr wrote: post #65

This is interesting to hear, but I don't understand how this workflow actually works. I don't need 10 parallel agents making 50-100 PRs a week, I need 1 agent that successfully solves the most important problem. I don't understand how you can generate requirements quicky enough to have 10 parallel agents chewing away at meaningful work. I don't understand how you can have any meaningful supervising role over 10 thing…

Yeah I don’t understand these posts recently with people running 10 at once Can someone give an example of what each of them would be doing? Are they just really slow, is that the problem?

I rarely run 10 top-level sessions, but I often run multiple.

Here is one case, though:

I have a prototype Ruby compiler that long languished because I didn't have time. I recently picked up work on it again with Claude Code.

There are literally thousands of unimplemented methods in the standard library. While that has not been my focus so far, my next step for it is to make Claude work on implementing missing methods in 10+ sessions in parallel, because why not? While there are some inter-dependencies (e.g. code that would at least be better with more of the methods of the lowest level core classes already in place), a huge proportion are mostly independent.

In this case the rubyspec test suite is there to verify compliance. On top of that I have my own tests (does the compiler still compile itself, and does the selftests still run when compiled with self-compiled compiler?) so having 10+ sessions "pick off" missing pieces, make an attempt see if it can make it pass, and move on, works well.

My main limitation is that I have already once run into the weekly limits of my (most expensive) Claude Max subscription, and I need it for other things too for client work and I'm not willing to pay-per-token for the API use for that project since it's not immediately giving me a return.

(And yes, they're "slow" - but faster than me; if they were fast enough, then sure, it'd be nicer to have them run serially, the same way if you had time it's easier to get cohesive work if a single developer does all the work on a project instead of having a team try to coordinate)

Re: The creator of Claude Code's Claude setup

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Post by iLoveOncall »

hnroo99 wrote: post #80
aaronbrethorst wrote: post #17

He did a follow up with someone on Reddit and the answers were posted here: https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeAI/comments/1q2c0ne/comment/n... It offers a lot more context and I found it more helpful than the original twitter thread

50-100 PRs a week to me is insane. I'm a little skeptical and wonder how large/impactful they are. I use AI a lot and have seen significant productivity gains but not at that level lol.

I work for a FAANG and I'm the top reviewer in my team (in terms of number of PRs reviewed). I work on an internal greenfield project, so something really fast moving.

For ALL of 2025 I reviewed around 400 PRs. And that already took me an extreme amount of time.

Nobody is reviewing this many PRs.

I've also raised around 350 PRs in the same year, which is also #1 for my team.

AI or not, nobody is raising upwards of 3,500 CRs a year. In fact, my WHOLE TEAM of 15 people has barely raised this number of CRs for the year.

I don't know why people keep believing those wild unproven claims from actors who have everything to gain from you believing them. Has common sense gone down the drain that much, even for educated professionals?

Re: The creator of Claude Code's Claude setup

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Post by csomar »

me_bx wrote: post #155
TheRoque wrote: post #119

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Gemini CLI is decent.

Is it? Yesterday, gemini told me to run this: echo 'export ANDROID_HOME=/opt/my-user/android-sdk' > ~/.bashrc Which would have effectively overriden my whole bashrc config if I had blindly copy-pasted it. A few minutes later, asking it to create a .gitignore file for the current project - right after generating a private key, it failed to include the private key file to the .gitignore. I don't see yet how these tools…

We were discussing the CLI, the output that's on the model.
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