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Re: How Anthropic teams use Claude Code

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Post by thunky »

tayo42 wrote: post #233
thunky wrote: post #230

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I'm not sure what your point is? Think of it like an append only journal. To correct an entry you add a new one with the correction. The LLM sees the mistake and the correction. That's no worse then mutating the history.

thats not how it works. You put in its context window some more information, then roll the dice again. And it produces text again token by token. Its still not planning ahead and its not looking back at what was just generated. There's no guarantee everything stays the same except the mistake. This is different then editing in place. you are rolling the dice again.

> its not looking back at what was just generated

It is, though. The LLM gets the full history in every prompt until you start a new session. That's why it gets slower as the conversation/context gets big.

The developer could choose to rewrite or edit the history before sending it back to the LLM but the user typically can't.

> There's no guarantee everything stays the same except the mistake

Sure, but there's no guarantee about anything it will generate. But that's a separate issue.

Re: How Anthropic teams use Claude Code

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Post by forgotmypw17 »

nojito wrote: post #240
danielbln wrote: post #210

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I do TDD. Plan out the feature, then have it write test. Scan the tests, check if everything is kosher. Then let it do the implementation, rinse and repeat.

How do you stop it from changing or modifying the test to get to pass?

“Do not change the test to get it to pass.”

Re: How Anthropic teams use Claude Code

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Post by oc1 »

minimaxir wrote: post #7

A repeated trend is that Claude Code only gets 70-80% of the way, which is fine and something I wish was emphasized more by people pushing agents. This bullet point is funny: > Treat it like a slot machine > Save your state before letting Claude work, let it run for 30 minutes, then either accept the result or start fresh rather than trying to wrestle with corrections. Starting over often has a higher success rate th…

Funny thing their recommendation to save state as claude code has still no ability for restore checkpoints (like cline has) despite being many times requested. Who are they kidding.

Re: How Anthropic teams use Claude Code

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Post by aspenmayer »

aprilthird2021 wrote: post #55
Graziano_M wrote: post #51

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Don’t forget to smash the power looms as well.

Is it OK to be a Luddite? https://archive.nytimes.com/www.nytimes.com/books/97/05/18/r... ?

Must we choose between Leviathan or oblivion? Is a steady state society possible, or even desirable?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Ophuls#Leviathan_or_ob...

Re: How Anthropic teams use Claude Code

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Post by dvsfish »

zer00eyz wrote: post #64
gmueckl wrote: post #50

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Data centers are CapEx, employees are OpEx. Building more data centers is cheap. Employees can always supervise more agents...

Data centers are cap ex Except the power and cooling demands of the current crop of GPU's means you are not fitting full density in a rack. There is a real material increase in fiber use because of your now more distributed equipment. (because 800gbps interconnects are NOT cheap). You can't capitalize power costs: this is now a non-trivial cost to account for. And the more power you use for compute the more power you…

Can't you capitalize power costs to an extent by building a solar and battery array? A sufficiently wealthy company would have the means to find a place to put it that can optimise for both conditions I imagine. I am a total layman in this regard though so pretty happy to be told I'm wrong. Apologies if I completely misinterpreted what you're meaning.

Re: How Anthropic teams use Claude Code

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Post by ycombinatornews »

jonstewart wrote: post #36

> Create self-sufficient loops > > Set up Claude to verify its own work by running builds, tests, and lints automatically. I’ve got much better at using Claude.md and plan files, etc., but it still goes off the rails so quickly when I try to get it to follow a normal TDD test/edit/build/commit workflow. It will report success, and then the unit tests will fail or the working copy is dirty or there are build errors, e…

Using slash commands that describe engineering/task workflow (steps) and /clear once it’s done solves this.

Re: How Anthropic teams use Claude Code

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Post by [deleted] »

alwillis wrote: post #124
nextworddev wrote: post #26

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You will start seriously worrying about coding AI bills within 6 months

You will start seriously worrying about coding AI bills within 6 months Nope. More open models ship everyday and are 80% cheaper for similar and sometimes better performance, depending on the task. You can use Qwen-3 Coder (a 480 billion parameter model with 35 billion active per forward pass (8 out of 160 experts)) for $0.302/M input tokens $0.302/M output tokens via openrouter. Claude 4 Sonnet is $3/M input tokens…

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