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What makes Claude Code so damn good

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Re: What makes Claude Code so damn good

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Post by 1zael »

imiric wrote: post #96
1zael wrote: post #82

I've literally built the entire MVP of my startup on Claude Code and now have paying customers. I've got an existential worry that I'm going to have a SEV incident that will trigger a house of falling cards, but until then I'm constantly leveraging Claude for fixing security vulnerabilities, implementing test-driven-development, and planning out the software architecture in accordance with my long-term product roadma…

Well, don't be shy, share what CC helped you build.

Answered above, but to be concrete on features --> it helped me build an end-to-end multi-stage pipeline architecture for video and audio transcription, LLM analysis, content generation, and evals. It took care of stuff like Postgres storage and pgvector for RAG-powered semantic search, background job orchestration with intelligent retry logic, Celery workers for background jobs, and MCP connectors.

Re: What makes Claude Code so damn good

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Post by itbeho »

mike1o1 wrote: post #189
itbeho wrote: post #187

I use Claude code with Elixir and Phoenix. It's been mostly great but after a short time into a project it seems to break something unrelated to the task at hand.

If you haven’t yet, you should try out usage_rules mix package. I mostly use Ash, which has great support for usage rules and it’s a night and day difference in effectiveness. Tidewave is also really nice as an MCP as it lets the agent query hexdocs or your schema directly. https://hexdocs.pm/usage_rules/readme.html

Thank you! I'll definitely check that out.

Re: What makes Claude Code so damn good

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Post by bilekas »

monkpit wrote: post #174
bilekas wrote: post #170

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I would argue this approach will help you in the long term with code maintainability. Which I feel will be one of the biggest issues down the line with AI generated codebases as they get larger.

The solution is to codify these sorts of things in prompts and tool use and gateways like linters etc. you have to let go…

What do you mean "you have to let go".

I use some ai tools and sometimes they're fine, but I won't in my lifetime anyway hand over everything to an AI, not out of some fear or anything, but even purely as a hobby. I like creating things from scratch, I like working out problems, why would I need to let that go?

Re: What makes Claude Code so damn good

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Post by riazrizvi »

syntaxing wrote: post #16

I don’t know if I’m doing something wrong. I was using Sonnet 4 with GitHub Copilot. Recently a week ago switched to Claude Code. I find GitHub Copilot solves problem and bugs way better than Claude Code. For some reason, Claude Code seems very lazy. Has anyone experience something similar?

I use ChatGPT, and I have used Claude several times. I’ve not found Claude to be better. I’ve come to the conclusion that all these posts asking why Claude is so good at coding, are all part of some marketing approach. I think it’s tied to how Claude prefers to hook into repos, I think maybe it’s tied to a business strategy of acquiring a mega code dataset. So they are especially motivated to push this narrative vs say OpenAI or other players.

(I don’t use any clients that answer coding questions by using the context of my repos).

Re: What makes Claude Code so damn good

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Post by a5c11 »

BeetleB wrote: post #132
foobarbecue wrote: post #123

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Isn't it easier to just write the code???

Depends on the algorithm. When you've been coding for a few decades, you really, really don't want to write yet another trivial algorithm you've written multiple tens of times in your life. There's no joy in it. Let the LLM do the boring stuff, and focus on writing the fun stuff. Also, setting up logging in Python is never fun.

> Also, setting up logging in Python is never fun.

import logging

Re: What makes Claude Code so damn good

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Post by swader999 »

yumraj wrote: post #74

I made insane progress with CC over last several weeks, but lately have noticed progress stalling. I’m in the middle of some refactoring/bug fixing/optimization but it’s constantly running into issues, making half baked changes, not able to fix regressions etc. Still trying to figure out how to make do a better job. Might have to break it into smaller chunks or something. Been pretty frustrating couple of weeks. If a…

Sometimes I take a repomix dump of a slice where there's issues and then get chat gpt to analyze it and come up with a step by step guide to fix it for Claude to follow. That has worked.

Re: What makes Claude Code so damn good

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Post by fourthark »

yumraj wrote: post #74

I made insane progress with CC over last several weeks, but lately have noticed progress stalling. I’m in the middle of some refactoring/bug fixing/optimization but it’s constantly running into issues, making half baked changes, not able to fix regressions etc. Still trying to figure out how to make do a better job. Might have to break it into smaller chunks or something. Been pretty frustrating couple of weeks. If a…

I ran into this too.

In my case it was exactly the kind of situation where I would also run into trouble on my own - trying to change too many things at once.

It was doing superbly for smaller, more contained tasks.

I may have to revert and approach each task on its own.

I find I need to know better than Claude what is going on, and guide it every step. It will figure out the right code if I show it where it should go, that kind of thing.

I think people may be underestimating / underreporting how much they have to be in the loop, guiding it.

It’s not really autonomous or responsible. But it can still be very useful!

Re: What makes Claude Code so damn good

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Post by davepeck »

1zael wrote: post #82

I've literally built the entire MVP of my startup on Claude Code and now have paying customers. I've got an existential worry that I'm going to have a SEV incident that will trigger a house of falling cards, but until then I'm constantly leveraging Claude for fixing security vulnerabilities, implementing test-driven-development, and planning out the software architecture in accordance with my long-term product roadma…

> I've literally built the entire MVP of my startup on Claude Code and now have paying customers.

Would you mind linking to your startup? I’m genuinely curious to see it.

(I won’t reply back with opinions about it. I just want to know what people are actually building with these tools!)

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