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This reads like a useful guide, not an answer to the question "why use Claude code over cursor" that the author includes at the beginning.
Any suggestions on what to add to answer the question better? I tried to cover this in "Why I switched", "When to use Cursor", and "My current setup" sections.
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Canadian girlfriend Ai coding strikes again.
ooo i love this term. does it have an origin? related meme i saw today: “bro I spent all weekend in Claude Code it’s incredible” “oh nice, what did you build?” “dude my setup is crazy. i’ve got all the vercel skills, plus custom hooks for every project” “sick, what are you building?” “my setup is so optimized, i’m using like 5 instances at once” https://x.com/johnpalmer/status/2012911338276720852?s=46
Meanwhile here’s me still just using the ChatGPT web chat asking it for code snippets.
It is wild that people are ao confident with AI that they're not testing the code at all?
What are we doing as a programmer? Reducing the typing + testing time? Because we have to write the prompt in English and do software design otherwise AI systems write a billion lines of code just to add two numbers.
This hype machine should show tangible outputs, and before anyone says they're entitled to not share their hidden talents then they should stop publishing articles as well.
You can't have your cake and have it too!
I'm copacetic to the notion we're not at enterprise codebase level (yet), but everyone who still thinks agentic coding stops at React CRUD apps needs to update their priors. I needed a poc RAG pipeline to demo concepts to other teams. Built and tested this over the weekend, exclusively with Claude Code and a little OpenCode. Mix of mobile app and breaking out Android terminal to allow Sonnet 4.5 to run the dotnet bui…
I'm copacetic to the notion we're not at enterprise codebase level (yet), but everyone who still thinks agentic coding stops at React CRUD apps needs to update their priors. I needed a poc RAG pipeline to demo concepts to other teams. Built and tested this over the weekend, exclusively with Claude Code and a little OpenCode. Mix of mobile app and breaking out Android terminal to allow Sonnet 4.5 to run the dotnet bui…
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Eventually the generation and evaluation will be quite fast where testing a million alternatives will be viable. Impressive you suggest that there might be a million alternatives but it would be faster to just read the code and settle on one. How might that be determined? Did the author who wrote the standard library really come up with the best way when writing those functions? Or did they come up with something tha…
A million alternatives is peanuts. Restricting the search space to text files with 37 possible symbols (letters, numbers, space), a million different files can be generated with just 4 symbols. A trillion is 8 symbols. You still haven't reached the end of your first import statement. I just took a random source file on my computer. It has about 8000 characters. The number of possible files with 8000 characters has 12…
By using a grammar. Here is an example on how to only generate valid JSON with llama.cpp: https://github.com/ggml-org/llama.cpp/blob/master/grammars/R...
> A trillion is 8 symbols. You still haven't reached the end of your first import statement.
Since LLMs use tokens from a vocabulary instead of characters, the number is likely somewhere in the lower billions for the first import statement.
But of course, LLMs do not sample from a uniform random distribution, so there are even fewer likely possibilities.
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Canadian girlfriend Ai coding strikes again.
ooo i love this term. does it have an origin? related meme i saw today: “bro I spent all weekend in Claude Code it’s incredible” “oh nice, what did you build?” “dude my setup is crazy. i’ve got all the vercel skills, plus custom hooks for every project” “sick, what are you building?” “my setup is so optimized, i’m using like 5 instances at once” https://x.com/johnpalmer/status/2012911338276720852?s=46
Then I saw a few other people reference it and it's as good a term as any to describe the hot air of people telling us how amazing ai coding is without giving the code, the prompts, or the price of what they did.
Just like how that one kid in highschool had a Canadian girlfriend.
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Surprisingly, for some people, the goal is the goal, and they don't care much about the journey.
What's the model for integration and maintenance in that case, then? Just re-create the app every time?
So, get a bug tracker, track those bugs, tell Claude to pick tasks off it etc.
I'm not claiming this actually works, I've not tried it, I don't know how good it is for large brownfield projects, but that's the general sentiment I see.
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Maybe, but you won't be able to test all behaviors and you won't have enough time to try a million alternatives. Just because of the number of possibilities, it'll be faster to just read the code.
That's why you buy a quantum computer. It writes every possible piece of software at once and leaves you the trivial task of curating the one you want.