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Re: The creator of Claude Code's Claude setup

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Post by mrb » Wed, Jan 07, 2026, 9:23 AM UTC

crystal_revenge wrote: post #169

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…

My initial response to reading this post was "wow, I think I'd rather just write the code". I also remain a bit skeptical because, if all of this really worked (and I mean over a long time and scaling to meet a range of business requirements), even if it's not how I personally want to write code, shouldn't we be seeing a ton of 1 person startups? I see Bay area startups pushing 996 and requiring living in the Bay are…

"pushing 996"

What does this mean? You mean they have close to 1k employees? Odd typo or odd way to say it.

Re: The creator of Claude Code's Claude setup

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Post by frumplestlatz » Wed, Jan 07, 2026, 9:27 AM UTC

crystal_revenge wrote: post #169

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…

My initial response to reading this post was "wow, I think I'd rather just write the code". I also remain a bit skeptical because, if all of this really worked (and I mean over a long time and scaling to meet a range of business requirements), even if it's not how I personally want to write code, shouldn't we be seeing a ton of 1 person startups? I see Bay area startups pushing 996 and requiring living in the Bay are…

If all of this really worked, Claude Code would not be a buggy, slow, frustratingly limited, and overall poorly written application. It can't even reload a "plugin" at runtime. Something that native code plugin hosts have been doing since plugins existed, where it's actually hard to do.

Claude Plugins are a couple `.md` file references, some `/command` handler registrations, and a few other pieces of trivial state. There's not a lot there, but you have to restart the whole damn app to install or update one.

Plus, there's the **ing terminal refresh bug they haven't managed to fix over the past year. Maybe put a team of 30 code agents on that. If I sound bitter, it's because the model itself is genuinely very good. I've just been stuck for a very long time working with it through Claude Code.

Re: The creator of Claude Code's Claude setup

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Post by nopassrecover » Wed, Jan 07, 2026, 9:27 AM UTC

mrb wrote: post #191

crystal_revenge wrote: post #169

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My initial response to reading this post was "wow, I think I'd rather just write the code". I also remain a bit skeptical because, if all of this really worked (and I mean over a long time and scaling to meet a range of business requirements), even if it's not how I personally want to write code, shouldn't we be seeing a ton of 1 person startups? I see Bay area startups pushing 996 and requiring living in the Bay are…

"pushing 996" What does this mean? You mean they have close to 1k employees? Odd typo or odd way to say it.

I'm not in the startup scene or the US but I've come to understand this as 6 days a week of working 9am-9pm - typical hustle virtue-signalling nonsense and/or the latest move to exploit/shame/scare driven/desperate people to sacrifice their lives unsustainably for the wealth creation of others (and I take the comment you were replying to was criticising this as well).

Re: The creator of Claude Code's Claude setup

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Post by plucas » Wed, Jan 07, 2026, 9:27 AM UTC

mrb wrote: post #191

crystal_revenge wrote: post #169

Earlier quoted context omitted.

My initial response to reading this post was "wow, I think I'd rather just write the code". I also remain a bit skeptical because, if all of this really worked (and I mean over a long time and scaling to meet a range of business requirements), even if it's not how I personally want to write code, shouldn't we be seeing a ton of 1 person startups? I see Bay area startups pushing 996 and requiring living in the Bay are…

"pushing 996" What does this mean? You mean they have close to 1k employees? Odd typo or odd way to say it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/996_working_hour_system

Re: The creator of Claude Code's Claude setup

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Post by MyFirstSass » Wed, Jan 07, 2026, 9:29 AM UTC

ChadNauseam wrote: post #176

crystal_revenge wrote: post #169

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My initial response to reading this post was "wow, I think I'd rather just write the code". I also remain a bit skeptical because, if all of this really worked (and I mean over a long time and scaling to meet a range of business requirements), even if it's not how I personally want to write code, shouldn't we be seeing a ton of 1 person startups? I see Bay area startups pushing 996 and requiring living in the Bay are…

I do stuff in my free time now that would have been a full time job a year ago. Accomplishing in months what would have taken years. (And doing in days what would have taken weeks.) I'm talking about actually built-out products with a decent amount of code and features, not basic prototypes. I feel like the vibe is "put up or shut up", so check out my bio for one example. I think your logic goes wrong because you ass…

"Built out products" like you're earning money on this? Having actual users, working through edge cases, browser quirks, race conditions, marketing, communication - the real battle testing 5% that's actually 95% of the work that in my view is impossible for the LLM? Because yeah the easy part is to create a big boilerplate app and have it sit somewhere with 2 users.

The hard part is day to day operations for years with thousands of edge cases, actual human feedback and errors, knocking on 1000 doors etc.

Otherwise you're just doing slot machine coding on crack, where you work and work and work one some amazing thing then it goes nowhere - and now you haven't even learned anything because you didn't code so the sideproject isn't even education anymore.

What's the point of such a project?

Re: The creator of Claude Code's Claude setup

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Post by [deleted] » Wed, Jan 07, 2026, 9:29 AM UTC

mrb wrote: post #191

crystal_revenge wrote: post #169

Earlier quoted context omitted.

My initial response to reading this post was "wow, I think I'd rather just write the code". I also remain a bit skeptical because, if all of this really worked (and I mean over a long time and scaling to meet a range of business requirements), even if it's not how I personally want to write code, shouldn't we be seeing a ton of 1 person startups? I see Bay area startups pushing 996 and requiring living in the Bay are…

"pushing 996" What does this mean? You mean they have close to 1k employees? Odd typo or odd way to say it.

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Re: The creator of Claude Code's Claude setup

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Post by [deleted] » Wed, Jan 07, 2026, 9:29 AM UTC

mrb wrote: post #191

crystal_revenge wrote: post #169

Earlier quoted context omitted.

My initial response to reading this post was "wow, I think I'd rather just write the code". I also remain a bit skeptical because, if all of this really worked (and I mean over a long time and scaling to meet a range of business requirements), even if it's not how I personally want to write code, shouldn't we be seeing a ton of 1 person startups? I see Bay area startups pushing 996 and requiring living in the Bay are…

"pushing 996" What does this mean? You mean they have close to 1k employees? Odd typo or odd way to say it.

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Re: The creator of Claude Code's Claude setup

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Post by ruszki » Wed, Jan 07, 2026, 9:29 AM UTC

northern-lights wrote: post #153

hnroo99 wrote: post #80

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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.

In other words, nobody cares that the generated code is shit, because there is no human who can review that much code. Not even on high level.

According to the discussion here, they don’t even care whether the tests are real. They just care about that it’s green. If tests are useless in reality? Who cares, nobody has time to check them!

And who will suffer because of this? Who cares, they pray that not them!

Re: The creator of Claude Code's Claude setup

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Post by viking123 » Wed, Jan 07, 2026, 9:30 AM UTC

roncesvalles wrote: post #151

AtlasBarfed wrote: post #132

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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.

This site seems astroturfed too. But tbh it's pretty good marketing compared to just buying ads.

Re: The creator of Claude Code's Claude setup

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Post by written-beyond » Wed, Jan 07, 2026, 9:30 AM UTC

iLoveOncall wrote: post #159

hnroo99 wrote: post #80

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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,…

I am also skeptical about the need for such a large number of PRs. Do those open because of previous PRs not accomplishing their goals?

It's frustrating because being part of a small team, I absolutely fucking hate it when any LLM product writes or refractors thousands of lines of code. It's genuinely infuriating because now I am fully reliant on it to make any changes, even if it's really simple. Just seems like a new version of vendor lock-in to me.