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I was a top 0.01% Cursor user, then switched to Claude Code 2.0

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Re: I was a top 0.01% Cursor user, then switched to Claude Code 2.0

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Post by Mashimo »

Mashimo wrote: post #141
SilenN wrote: post #133

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Nothing competes with Opus 4.5 in Claude Code. Codex & Gemini are arguable.

Yeah, but I tought at 29 USD for a year with 3 times the limit it might be able to compete. But I will probably check out claudecode next month when my github copilot subscription runs out. Edit: I found this: https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeCode/comments/1q6f62t/tried_n... Seems like it might be worth to check it out. Found a 10% discount that works on the additional discount so now it would be 26 USD / year.

Also found this discussion, where it's much more of a mixed bag: https://np.reddit.com/r/LocalLLaMA/comments/1pveluj/honestly...

Re: I was a top 0.01% Cursor user, then switched to Claude Code 2.0

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Post by HNisCIS »

stavros wrote: post #25

I really love AI for lots of things, but, when I'm reading a post, the AI aesthetic has started to grate. I read articles and they all have the same "LLM" aesthetic, and I feel like I'm reading posts written by the same person. Sure, the information is all there, but the style just puts me off reading it. I really don't like how few authors have a voice any more, even if that voice is full of typos and grammatical er…

My brain kinda shuts off when I read this stuff because I know it's more of a "text shaped object" than actual text. I find LLM text to be too fluffy and information sparse much of the time so I subconsciously start skimming it more than actually reading it.

Re: I was a top 0.01% Cursor user, then switched to Claude Code 2.0

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Post by Alupis »

sunrunner wrote: post #148
hatefulheart wrote: post #143

Earlier quoted context omitted.

False equivalency. The maintenance and expertise required to run the codebase you’ve generated still falls flatly on you. When you use a library or a framework it normally is domain experts that do that stuff.

I’m so glad we’ve got domain experts to write those tricky things like left-pad for us. On a more serious note, I do think that the maintenance aspect is a differentiator, and that if it’s something that you end up committing to your codebase then ownership and accountability falls to you. Externally sourced libraries and frameworks ultimately have different owners.

I'm reminded of the recent "vibe coded" OCaml fiasco[1].

In particular, the PR author's response to this question:

> Here's my question: why did the files that you submitted name Mark Shinwell as the author?

> > Beats me. AI decided to do so and I didn't question it.

The same author submitted a similar PR to Julia as well. Both were closed in-part due to the significant maintenance burden these entirely LLM-written PR's would create.

> This humongous amount of code is hard to review, and very lightly tested. (You are only testing that basic functionality works.) Inevitably the code will be full of problems, and we (the maintainers of the compiler) will have to pay the cost of fixing them. But maintaining large pieces of plausible-in-general-but-weird-in-the-details code is a large burden.

Setting aside the significant volume of code being committed at once (13K+ lines in the OCaml example), the maintainers would have to review code even the PR author didn't review - and would likely fall into the same trap many of us have found ourselves in while reviewing LLM-generated code... "Am I an idiot or is this code broken? I must be missing something obvious..." (followed by wasted time and effort).

The PR author even admitted they know little about compilers - making them unqualified to review the LLM-generated code.

[1] https://github.com/ocaml/ocaml/pull/14369

Re: I was a top 0.01% Cursor user, then switched to Claude Code 2.0

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Post by suddenlybananas »

quixoticaxolotl wrote: post #107
dns_snek wrote: post #55

Earlier quoted context omitted.

And how exactly do you foresee probabilistic systems working out in real life? Nobody wants software that seldom does what they expect, and which tends to trend toward desirable behavior over time (where "desirable" behavior is determined by the sum of global feedback and revenue/profit of the company producing it). Today you send some money to your spouse but it's received by another person with the same name. Tomor…

You're thinking of probabilistic systems at run time . People are talking about probabilistic systems at compile time . Whatever gets generated, if it passes tests and is observably in compliance with the spec, is accepted and made permanent. It's the clay we're talking about Jackson Pollocking, not the sculpture.

Tests don't go over the space of all possible inputs and you have no idea how other inputs are generalized or interpolated.

Re: I was a top 0.01% Cursor user, then switched to Claude Code 2.0

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Post by suddenlybananas »

p1esk wrote: post #40
hollowturtle wrote: post #23

>> You no longer need to review the code. You also no longer need to work, earn money, have a life, read, study, know anything about the world. This is pure fantasy my brain farts hard when I read sentences like that

You also no longer need to work, earn money, have a life, read, study, know anything about the world. This is pure fantasy This will be reality in 10-20 years

A traditional Marxist revolution is more likely than that.

Re: I was a top 0.01% Cursor user, then switched to Claude Code 2.0

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Post by darkwater »

varispeed wrote: post #9
nebezb wrote: post #5

> my experience from 5 years of coding with AI What AI have you been using for 5 years of coding?

If AI can 10x then that's 50 years worth of development. Likely OP has developed a UNIX like operating system, is my guess.

10x in personal branding position for sure. 5 years of AI usage by rounding up a 4 years-something, where the first 2 were really a glorified autocomplete and top 0.01% of something something.

Re: I was a top 0.01% Cursor user, then switched to Claude Code 2.0

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Post by richardfulop »

stavros wrote: post #25

I really love AI for lots of things, but, when I'm reading a post, the AI aesthetic has started to grate. I read articles and they all have the same "LLM" aesthetic, and I feel like I'm reading posts written by the same person. Sure, the information is all there, but the style just puts me off reading it. I really don't like how few authors have a voice any more, even if that voice is full of typos and grammatical er…

what's crazy to me is that it's literally a sentence in your prompt to make it change the style, but i guess some people are not bothered by it

Re: I was a top 0.01% Cursor user, then switched to Claude Code 2.0

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Post by coopykins »

This is a good guide on how to use Claude code. My perspective (from an early adopter of LLMs for coding) is similar. Though, open code has a lot of potential as well. So I'm happy that Claude Code is not the only option. But a key aspect imo is that, using these tools is also a skill; And there's a lot of knowledge involved in making something good with the assistance of Claude code vs doing slop. Specially as soon as you deviate from a very basic application / work in a larger repo with multiple people. There's a layer of context that these tools don't quite have, and it's very difficult to consistently provide them with. I can see this being less the case as context windows and the reliability of larger context retrieval is solved.

Re: I was a top 0.01% Cursor user, then switched to Claude Code 2.0

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Post by blitzar »

MaysonL wrote: post #132
wyldfire wrote: post #124

If you like Claude Code, then Gas Town (recent discussion [1]) will probably blow your mind. I'm just trying to get a grip on it myself. But it sounds incredible. [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46458936

Just wait ‘til Gas City ships.

This town ain't big enough for the both of us
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