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Re: Claude Code as a Daily Driver: Claude.md, Skills, Subagents, Plugins, and MCPs

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Oh great! Another AI slop article about "working" with AI (= working for AI). Do you notice how much bloody work you put in the boring parts, only to leave out the most creative aspect of software engineering to a slot-machine?

Written by an LLM, deployed by an agent to the blog, posted to HN by a bot, upvoted by more bots to market "AI".

Re: Claude Code as a Daily Driver: Claude.md, Skills, Subagents, Plugins, and MCPs

#22

To me, this kind of talk exhibits the very cultish and con side of the whole genAI train. In a way, it does a poor job especially when the intent is positive about the technology, it sheds a bad look on it. Generally, and more so with paid products, one should expect to get something that is ready to be used, tuned by who's selling it at the best of their efforts. Instead, this is basically saying that the product is…

I see this kind of first-gen coding agents a bit like the AI-era microsoft excel: you need to be a poweruser to use it correctly, otherwise you'll end up failing catastrophically. Hence the amount of different ways to use it.

Having an "unfinished" product is also a great marketing tool for companies like anthropic: each skill/plugin/guide that you see on the internet is boosting their SEO + social validation metrics.

Re: Claude Code as a Daily Driver: Claude.md, Skills, Subagents, Plugins, and MCPs

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post #17

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What happens when you have a codebase made with gcc for let's say 8 hours? Are you able to efficiently, smoothly and productively take over the assembly code?

1. When and how would gcc go down? 2. How often do you think that happens, compared to Claude?

You can use a local model, which will go down exactly as often as gcc will. We may still have hopeful notions of being able to understand the codebase, but the reality seems to be that the codebases we don't understand will be the ones that will win out in the market, because they'll be cheaper while still only having about as many bugs as they had when people wrote them.

Re: Claude Code as a Daily Driver: Claude.md, Skills, Subagents, Plugins, and MCPs

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post #23

Earlier quoted context omitted.

1. When and how would gcc go down? 2. How often do you think that happens, compared to Claude?

You can use a local model, which will go down exactly as often as gcc will. We may still have hopeful notions of being able to understand the codebase, but the reality seems to be that the codebases we don't understand will be the ones that will win out in the market, because they'll be cheaper while still only having about as many bugs as they had when people wrote them.

We're explicitly not talking about local models here; we're talking about Claude.

Re: Claude Code as a Daily Driver: Claude.md, Skills, Subagents, Plugins, and MCPs

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post #23

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You can use a local model, which will go down exactly as often as gcc will. We may still have hopeful notions of being able to understand the codebase, but the reality seems to be that the codebases we don't understand will be the ones that will win out in the market, because they'll be cheaper while still only having about as many bugs as they had when people wrote them.

We're explicitly not talking about local models here; we're talking about Claude.

Because you're better able to take over the codebase a local model wrote than one Claude wrote? The original question was about taking over an LLM-written codebase, it doesn't sound to me like the argument was about a codebase that Claude, specifically, wrote.

Re: Claude Code as a Daily Driver: Claude.md, Skills, Subagents, Plugins, and MCPs

#28
post #9

Regarding: ``` # Development Workflow *Always use `bun`, not `npm`.* # 1. Make changes # 2. Typecheck (fast) bun run typecheck # 3. Run tests bun run test -- -t "test name" # Single suite bun run test:file -- "glob" # Specific files # 4. Lint before committing bun run lint:file -- "file1.ts" bun run lint # 5. Before creating PR bun run lint:claude && bun run test ``` I have these things in pre-commit, this way the ta…

I mean at this point, you should just write a few deterministic orchestration scripts to automate away the boring parts and write the code yourself. Why are we wasting our time on making the wonder shit-machine work?

Re: Claude Code as a Daily Driver: Claude.md, Skills, Subagents, Plugins, and MCPs

#29
post #17

What happens when you have a codebase made with claude using this setup and claude is down for let's say 8 hours? Are you able to efficiently, smoothly and productively take over the codebase?

What happens when you have a codebase made with gcc for let's say 8 hours? Are you able to efficiently, smoothly and productively take over the assembly code?

Is this really a position you want to take in public with your real name and identity and everything plastered over your profile?

Re: Claude Code as a Daily Driver: Claude.md, Skills, Subagents, Plugins, and MCPs

#30
post #29
post #17

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What happens when you have a codebase made with gcc for let's say 8 hours? Are you able to efficiently, smoothly and productively take over the assembly code?

Is this really a position you want to take in public with your real name and identity and everything plastered over your profile?

What can I say, we can't all be geniuses.
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