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Many Claude Code power users don’t really use IDEs anymore, so the only purpose of them working from their laptop instead of a phone is because that is the normal way to do it. Here is a real use case: you are are responsible for some alerting channel. You have datadog/ cloud logging/ github all connected. You see a bunch of alerts come through while you are out and about and you prompt CC to investigate - Claude tri…
> Many Claude Code power users don’t really use IDEs anymore This is something we of the HN bubble take for granted. Most of us know how to type quickly and use editors and use macros and program scripting languages and compose regexes. The vast majority of programmers do not know those things . As such, AI speeds them up tremendously.
HN skews heavily toward the SF signature vc-hype tech-driven-dev style, always chasing the new thing, sometimes to the detriment of everything else.
Even if this style of development was a clear improvement over the classic "typing things with hands" style, the rest of the world would take a while to catch on.