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Re: The creator of Claude Code's Claude setup

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Post by kingkongjaffa »

The amount of people holding strong opinions on LLMs who openly admit they have not tried the state of the art tools is so high on Hacker news right now, that it's refreshing to get actual updates from the tool's creators.

I read a comment yesterday that said something like "many people tried LLMs early on, it was kind of janky and so they gave up, thinking LLMs are bad". They were probably right at the time, but the tech _has_ improved since then, while those opinions have not changed much.

So, yes claude code and sonnet/opus 4.5 is another step change that you should try out. For $20/month you can run claude code in the terminal and regular claude on the web app.

Re: The creator of Claude Code's Claude setup

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Post by [deleted] »

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 63stack »

ijidak wrote: post #215
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…

My brother is selling a CRM he developed for his business to others for a couple thousand a month. There is no way he would have built the CRM as quickly pre-AI. He built, in a few months, what would have taken maybe one to two years before. It's probably going to be a while before someone builds the next Instagram with AI. But I think that's more a function of product fit and idea. Less so how fast one person can co…

Link to the crm? I'm asking because all tge crms I have encountered so far were vastly more complex than Instagram.

I would actually expect that current coding AIs would create something very close to Instagram when instructed.

Re: The creator of Claude Code's Claude setup

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Post by eru »

vidarh wrote: post #172
eru wrote: post #133

Earlier quoted context omitted.

That's why you have Codex review the code. (I'm only half joking. Having one LLM review the PRs of another is actually useful as a first line filter.)

Even having Opus review code written by Opus works very well as a first pass. I typically have it run a sub-agent to review its own code using a separate prompt. The sub-agents gets fresh context, so it won't get "poisoned" by the top level contexts justifications for the questionable choices it might have made. The prompts then direct the top level instance to repeat the verification step until the sub-agent gives t…

Thanks, that sounds all very reasonable!

> Basically, reviewing output from Claude (or Codex, or any model) that hasn't been through multiple automated review passes by a model first is a waste of time - it's like reviewing the first draft from a slightly sloppy and overly self-confident developer who hasn't bothered checking if their own work even compiles first.

Well, that's what the CI is for. :)

In any case, it seems like a good idea to also feed the output of compiler errors and warnings and the linter back to your coding agent.

Re: The creator of Claude Code's Claude setup

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Post by port3000 »

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…

50-100 PRs a week but they still can't fix the 'flickering' bug

Re: The creator of Claude Code's Claude setup

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Post by disgruntledphd2 »

ijidak wrote: post #215
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…

My brother is selling a CRM he developed for his business to others for a couple thousand a month. There is no way he would have built the CRM as quickly pre-AI. He built, in a few months, what would have taken maybe one to two years before. It's probably going to be a while before someone builds the next Instagram with AI. But I think that's more a function of product fit and idea. Less so how fast one person can co…

> The first billion-dollar solopreneur likely is going to happen at some point

I'm pretty sure that this has already happened, see: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plenty_of_Fish

Not quite 1bn (but 575mn in 2015 dollars) and mostly done by one person.

Re: The creator of Claude Code's Claude setup

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Post by William_BB »

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…

This is just the creator of Claude Code overselling Claude Code

Re: The creator of Claude Code's Claude setup

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Post by [deleted] »

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…

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Re: The creator of Claude Code's Claude setup

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Post by philipwhiuk »

hnroo99 wrote: post #80
aaronbrethorst wrote: post #17

He did a follow up with someone on Reddit and the answers were posted here: https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeAI/comments/1q2c0ne/comment/n... It offers a lot more context and I found it more helpful than the original twitter thread

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.

When people do PR counting then I assume they're dependabot-style stuff.
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