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Claude Code Is My Computer

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Re: Claude Code Is My Computer

#21
> Automate Content: Like this very post. I use Wispr Flow to talk with Claude, explain the topic and tell it to read my past blog posts to write in my style.

This post is generated. Meaning, it wasn't written with the same aim towards truth and relevance that we assume writers have. It looks like writing, and fools readers into thinking it's writing.

But it's just text. What's the purpose in reading it as opposed to any other generated text?

Re: Claude Code Is My Computer

#22
I wanted to try Claude code but it's 200$ per month which is INR17000 per month. This was expensive even when I had a job. Now it feels like all this power is accessible only to the rich. When Geoffrey suggested [1] AI will increase wealth for rich he was not wrong.

https://www.indiatoday.in/technology/news/story/ai-will-incr...

Re: Claude Code Is My Computer

#23
>> “commit everything in logical chunks” and Claude handles the entire flow—staging changes, writing meaningful commit messages, pushing, opening PRs, watching CI, and fixing any CI failures. When builds break, it analyzes the errors and patches them automatically. It’s also extremely good at resolving merge conflicts.

Is this marketing hype for the post or does it actually do all this? I know it's relatively new, but I haven't been able to find a resources to do such a setup? Only posts glorifying that it's capable of such tasks. If anyone else has had better luck with such complex tasks, would love to find out more.

Re: Claude Code Is My Computer

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>> “commit everything in logical chunks” and Claude handles the entire flow—staging changes, writing meaningful commit messages, pushing, opening PRs, watching CI, and fixing any CI failures. When builds break, it analyzes the errors and patches them automatically. It’s also extremely good at resolving merge conflicts. Is this marketing hype for the post or does it actually do all this? I know it's relatively new, bu…

Yes I do the same thing, except I usually just say alright push this up now and it handles it

Re: Claude Code Is My Computer

#25

>> “commit everything in logical chunks” and Claude handles the entire flow—staging changes, writing meaningful commit messages, pushing, opening PRs, watching CI, and fixing any CI failures. When builds break, it analyzes the errors and patches them automatically. It’s also extremely good at resolving merge conflicts. Is this marketing hype for the post or does it actually do all this? I know it's relatively new, bu…

It does this for Peter at least. There is a video of him showing is Agentinc setup.

Re: Claude Code Is My Computer

#26
post #5

The backup part is the crucial piece here. If you have reasonable guard rails for your AI, you can throw much more at it. Let it write tests before implementing something, ensure the code is in version control before promoting a change, etc.

Aside, I tried to move my ~/Code folder (where all my programming projects and work live) into the macOS iCloud folder so that everything would auto-sync. But the constant Git churn created a lot of traffic and collisions in that folder. And when I googled it, apparently it's just not a good idea to sync Git projects in iCloud. I really want to easily sync my folders so that I can just get a new macbook and recreate…

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Re: Claude Code Is My Computer

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>> “commit everything in logical chunks” and Claude handles the entire flow—staging changes, writing meaningful commit messages, pushing, opening PRs, watching CI, and fixing any CI failures. When builds break, it analyzes the errors and patches them automatically. It’s also extremely good at resolving merge conflicts. Is this marketing hype for the post or does it actually do all this? I know it's relatively new, bu…

It can do all this and more, you just have to nudge/instruct it to.

It's also amazing at using the CLI (I've been a terminal nerd for years, and yet watching claude 4 pipe those unix commands to work around the fact it can't use interactive TUI's yet, is pretty amazing)

You can give it tools either via funciton call, MCP, or just terminal unix shell.

Prompt it right, and the agentic stuff is like magic imho

Re: Claude Code Is My Computer

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post #5

The backup part is the crucial piece here. If you have reasonable guard rails for your AI, you can throw much more at it. Let it write tests before implementing something, ensure the code is in version control before promoting a change, etc.

Aside, I tried to move my ~/Code folder (where all my programming projects and work live) into the macOS iCloud folder so that everything would auto-sync. But the constant Git churn created a lot of traffic and collisions in that folder. And when I googled it, apparently it's just not a good idea to sync Git projects in iCloud. I really want to easily sync my folders so that I can just get a new macbook and recreate…

why not put claude code inside a docker environment you control?

you might copy the code working dir in read mode only or whatever idk\

Re: Claude Code Is My Computer

#30

> Automate Content: Like this very post. I use Wispr Flow to talk with Claude, explain the topic and tell it to read my past blog posts to write in my style. This post is generated. Meaning, it wasn't written with the same aim towards truth and relevance that we assume writers have. It looks like writing, and fools readers into thinking it's writing. But it's just text. What's the purpose in reading it as opposed to…

It took 50+ prompts to get it to this state. I’d say that counts as putting enough care into it to be my voice.
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