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Re: The creator of Claude Code's Claude setup

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Post by Melonai »

cantalopes wrote: post #124
copperx wrote: post #104

I'm afraid to ask, but because I've been very happy with Codex 5.2 CLI and I can't imagine Claude Code doing better, why is it Claude so loved around here? Sure, I can spend $20 and figure it out, but I already pay $40/mo for two ChatGPT subs and that's enough to get me through a month. Should I spend $20 to see for myself?

If you spend only 20 on claude code you will not get far, it will lock you out after about hour of work for session usage limits

How much would you consider a good amount? I can't really afford more than 20$ myself, but perhaps there's a better more monetarily-optimal workflow.

Re: The creator of Claude Code's Claude setup

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Post by throwaway777x »

latexr wrote: post #227
sneak wrote: post #180

Earlier quoted context omitted.

A lot of people either a) don’t know about the good tools or b) aren’t using them enough/properly. There is a ton of anti-AI sentiment, and not all LLMs are equal. There is a lot of individual adoption that is yet to occur. I know at least two startups that are one person or two people that are punching way above their weight due to this force multiplier. I don’t think it’s industry-wide yet, but it will be relativel…

> I don’t think it’s industry-wide yet, but it will be relatively soon. > Check back in on your assessment in a year. We’ve all read that, and claims grander than that, multiple times over the past few years. And next year someone will say it again.

I think the Deepseek moment that everyone started trying Deepseek and chain of thought was the weekend of 1/25/25 and 1/26/25.

The progress lived up to the hype the past year. To say otherwise is to be either intellectually dishonest or you just didn't bother using the tools in order to feel how much progress was made.

I just went back to a project that I remember the models struggled with. It felt like years ago but it was from July. Even July to now is night and day different.

Re: The creator of Claude Code's Claude setup

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Post by sensanaty »

iLoveOncall wrote: post #159
hnroo99 wrote: post #80

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

I work for a FAANG and I'm the top reviewer in my team (in terms of number of PRs reviewed). I work on an internal greenfield project, so something really fast moving. For ALL of 2025 I reviewed around 400 PRs. And that already took me an extreme amount of time. Nobody is reviewing this many PRs. I've also raised around 350 PRs in the same year, which is also #1 for my team. AI or not, nobody is raising upwards of 3,…

> I don't know why people keep believing those wild unproven claims from actors who have everything to gain from you believing them.

It's grifters all the way down. The majority of people pushing this narrative have vested interests, either because they own some AI shovelware company or are employed by one of the AI shovelware companies. Anthropic specifically is running guerilla marketing campaigns fucking everywhere at the moment, it's why every single one of these types of spammed posts reads the same way. They've also switched up a bit of late, they stopped going with the "It makes me a 10x engineer!" BS (though you still see plenty of that) and are instead going with this weird "I can finally have fun developing again!" narrative instead, I guess trying to cater to the ex-devs that are now managers or whatever.

What happens is you get juniors and non-technical people seeing big numbers and being like "Wow, that's so impressive!" without stopping to think for 5 seconds what the kind of number they're trying to push even actually means. 100 PRs is absurd unless they're tiny oneliners, and even if they were tiny changes, there's 0 chance anyone is looking at the code being shat out here.

Re: The creator of Claude Code's Claude setup

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Post by dbbk »

llmslave2 wrote: post #28

Couple things stand out to me: 1) everyone on the team uses Claude code differently. 2) Claude Code has been around for almost a year and is being built by an entire team, yet doesn't seem to have benefited from this approach. The program is becoming buggier and less reliable over time, and development speed seems indistinguishable from anything else. 3) Everything this person says should be taken with a massive grai…

I also find it odd that despite a whole team of people working on Claude Code with Claude Code, which should make them immensely productive, there are still glaring gaps. Like, why doesn’t Claude Code on Web have the plan mode? The model already knows how to use it, it’s just a UI change.

Normally I would cut them some slack but it doesn’t really make sense, couldn’t someone kick off a PR today and get it done?

Re: The creator of Claude Code's Claude setup

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Post by dbbk »

ej88 wrote: post #27

I implemented some of his setup and have been loving it so far. My current workflow is typically 3-5 Claude Codes in parallel - Shallow clone, plan mode back and forth until I get the spec down, hand off to subagent to write a plan.md - Ralph Wiggum Claude using plan.md and skills until PR passes tests, CI/CD, auto-responds to greptile reviews, prepares the PR for me to review - Back and forth with Claude for any inc…

Do you prefer Playwright or the Chrome MCP?

Re: The creator of Claude Code's Claude setup

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Post by margorczynski »

CharlieDigital wrote: post #256
margorczynski wrote: post #252

Earlier quoted context omitted.

But eventually people will catch up you can basically create a working product alone with the help of AI. My prediction is that this will lead to a margin free-fall for many software products where the main moat is the software itself. And a lot of SaaS companies will also become redundant when the AI can code up a tailored solution in an hour for free.

You are discounting sales, marketing, and branding. Take drop shipping for example: anyone can do this, but the successful ones are those that know how to brand and market the product well. Not to mention having the right mindset for startups and building a business. The code and product is maybe only 20% of the story.

I'm not. That edge eventually converges to 0 when you have 10+ competitors that offer the same for 10x less money.

If you don't have some kind of cult following like Apple eventually you'll get margin-squeezed till death and all that marketing, sales, etc. will get cut down to stay afloat.

Of course all of the above is just my theory how this will play out in the long run, I'm no oracle by any means.

Re: The creator of Claude Code's Claude setup

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Post by dbbk »

ed_mercer wrote: post #247

>Most sessions start in Plan mode I don't get why they added a Plan mode. Even without it, you can just ask claude to "make a plan" from where you can iterate on it. Also is it really that much faster to type "/commit-push-pr" than it is to type "commit, push and make a pr" ?

It’s really a convenience to force the model to use the planning tool and it prevents edit/write tools until the user approves the plan, like an inverse of “auto accept edits” mode.

Re: The creator of Claude Code's Claude setup

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Post by dbbk »

mike_hearn wrote: post #258
mks_shuffle wrote: post #125

How much Codex and Claude Code are different from each other? I have been using Codex for few weeks doing experiments related to data analysis and training models with some architecture modifications. I wouldn't say I have used it extensively, but so far my experience has been good. Only annoying part has been not able to use GPU in the Codex without using `--sandbox danger-full-access` flag. Today, I started using C…

Codex is heavily inspired by Claude Code. They aren't that different. They might diverge more in future.

They are quite different, Claude Code with Opus 4.5 is miles better than Codex

Re: The creator of Claude Code's Claude setup

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Post by dbbk »

0x500x79 wrote: post #49
Snakes3727 wrote: post #46

Frankly Claude code is painfully slow. To the point I get frustrated. On large codebases I often find it taking 20+ minutes to do basic things like writing tests. Way too often people are like it takes 2 minutes for it to do a full pr. Yeah how big is the code base actually. I also have a coworker who is about 10x more then everyone else. Burning through credits yet he is one of the lowest performers.{closing in on a…

$1,000.00 of credits per-day?? $200,000 per year? Those are bonkers numbers for someone not performing at a high level (on-top of their salary). Do you know what they are doing?

They should just be on the $200 a month Max plan
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