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What makes Claude Code so damn good

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Re: What makes Claude Code so damn good

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Post by furyofantares »

noduerme wrote: post #242

Claude Code has definitely attracted me as in, I would like to try it on a new project. But just speaking as a lone coder, it absolutely terrifies me to give something access to my whole system and CLI. I have one main laptop and everything is on it. All my repos and API keys and SSH keys, my carefully tuned dev environment...I have no idea what it might read or upload, let alone what it might try to execute. I'm tem…

By default you have to approve every command it runs. I think most people end up allowing certain tools through unconditionally, like grep, but which is technical not bullet proof but feels pretty safe. The agent program also has some guardrails to prevent the model from working outside of the working directory you launched it from, that is also not bulletproof but in practice works pretty well.

You could set up a docker image and run it in that if you wanted.

Re: What makes Claude Code so damn good

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Post by brookst »

brokegrammer wrote: post #213
nuwandavek wrote: post #207

Earlier quoted context omitted.

(blogpost author here) Haha, that's totally fair. I've read a whole bunch of posts comparing CC to other tools, or with a dump of the the architecture. This post was mainly for people who've used CC extensively, know for a fact that it is better and wonder how to ship such an experience in their own apps.

I've used Claude Code, Cursor, and Copilot is Vscode and I don't "know" that Claude Code is better apart from the fact that it runs in the terminal, which makes it a little faster but less ergonomic than tools running inside the editor. All of the context tricks can be done with Copilot instructions as well, so I simply can't see how Claude Code is superior.

I’ve been so into Claude code that I haven’t used cursor or copilot in vs code in a while.

Do they also allow you to view the thinking process and planning, and hit ESC to correct if it’s going down a wrong path? I’ve found that to be one of my favorite features of Claude code. If it says “ah, the the implementation isn’t complete, I’ll update test to use mocks” I can interrupt it and say no, it’s fine for the test to fail until the implementation is finished, so not mock anything. Etc.

It may be that I just discovered this after switching, but I don’t recall that being an interaction pattern on cursor or copilot. I was always having to revert after the fact (which might have been me not seeing the option).

Re: What makes Claude Code so damn good

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Post by dimgl »

1zael wrote: post #191
imiric wrote: post #96

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Well, don't be shy, share what CC helped you build.

Answered above, but to be concrete on features --> it helped me build an end-to-end multi-stage pipeline architecture for video and audio transcription, LLM analysis, content generation, and evals. It took care of stuff like Postgres storage and pgvector for RAG-powered semantic search, background job orchestration with intelligent retry logic, Celery workers for background jobs, and MCP connectors.

We get it; it helped you build a bunch of stuff. Why not just post your company?

Re: What makes Claude Code so damn good

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Post by dotancohen »

SpaceNoodled wrote: post #259
dotancohen wrote: post #250

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The phrase "so damn good" implies a benchmark, which itself is implied to be the average of comparable tools. Without these premises, one could state that the 1996 Yugo was so damn good. I mean, it was better than a horse.

I dunno, horses are pretty great.

Sure, but the Yugo had the power of 45 of them, and didn't leave dung on the city streets. ))

Re: What makes Claude Code so damn good

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Post by Workaccount2 »

orsorna wrote: post #112
imiric wrote: post #96

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Well, don't be shy, share what CC helped you build.

[flagged]

I learned 20 years ago to never share code online with programmers when it comes to making a point (or, sadly, asking for help.)

I promise if someone posted human made code and said it was LLM generated, it would still be nit-picked to death. I swear 75% of developers ride around on a high horse that their style of doing things is objectively the best and everyone else is a knuckle dragger.

Re: What makes Claude Code so damn good

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Post by patates »

slimebot80 wrote: post #249
brokegrammer wrote: post #205

I don't get it. The title says "What makes Claude Code so damn good", which implies that they will show how Claude Code is better than other tools, or just better in general. But they go about repeating the Claude Code documentation using different wording. Am I missing something here? Or is this just Anthropic shilling?

Nowhere in the title does it compare to other tools? Just that's it's damn good.

not in the title but, one of the opening sentences is this:

> I find Claude Code objectively less annoying to use compared to Cursor, or Github Copilot agents even with the same underlying model! What makes it so damn good?

Re: What makes Claude Code so damn good

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Post by kissgyorgy »

dtagames wrote: post #252
brokegrammer wrote: post #205

I don't get it. The title says "What makes Claude Code so damn good", which implies that they will show how Claude Code is better than other tools, or just better in general. But they go about repeating the Claude Code documentation using different wording. Am I missing something here? Or is this just Anthropic shilling?

The difference between Claude Code and Cursor is that one is a command line tool and the other an IDE. You can use Claude models in both and all these techniques can be applied with Cursor and its rules, too. It's Coke vs. Pepsi.

Not even close. An agentic tool can be fully autonomous, an IDE like Cursor is, well it's "just" an editor. Quite the opposite. Sure it does some heavy lifting too, but still the user writes the code. They start to implement fully agentic tools and models, but they are nowhere near work as good as Claude Code does.

Re: What makes Claude Code so damn good

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Post by esafak »

filchermcurr wrote: post #114
alex1138 wrote: post #5

What do people think of Google's Gemini (Pro?) compared to Claude for code? I really like a lot of what Google produces, but they can't seem to keep a product that they don't shut down and they can be pretty ham-fisted, both with corporate control (Chrome and corrupt practices) and censorship

The Gemini CLI tool is atrocious. It might work sometimes for analyzing code, but for modifying files, never. The inevitable conclusion of every session I've ever tried has been an infinite loop. Sometimes it's an infinite loop of self-deprecation, sometimes just repeating itself to failure, usually repeating the same tool failure until it catches it as an infinite loop. Tool usage frequently (we're talking 90% of th…

Once it repeatedly printed shame in all caps. I was worried until I figured out it was talking to itself.

Re: What makes Claude Code so damn good

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Post by willsmith72 »

dtagames wrote: post #252
brokegrammer wrote: post #205

I don't get it. The title says "What makes Claude Code so damn good", which implies that they will show how Claude Code is better than other tools, or just better in general. But they go about repeating the Claude Code documentation using different wording. Am I missing something here? Or is this just Anthropic shilling?

The difference between Claude Code and Cursor is that one is a command line tool and the other an IDE. You can use Claude models in both and all these techniques can be applied with Cursor and its rules, too. It's Coke vs. Pepsi.

not at all, it's just not a "claude model". All these companies add their own prompts hints on top. it's a totally different experience. Trying using kiro which is also a "claude model" and tell me it's the same

Re: What makes Claude Code so damn good

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Post by willsmith72 »

0xpgm wrote: post #232

So, what great new products or startups have these amazing coding agents helped create so far (and not on the AI supply side). Anywhere to check?

literally every single startup in the past year is helped by these. Of course you haven't heard of them, they're year-old startups
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