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Re: The creator of Claude Code's Claude setup

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Post by latexr »

ChadNauseam wrote: post #176
crystal_revenge wrote: post #169

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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…

I do stuff in my free time now that would have been a full time job a year ago. Accomplishing in months what would have taken years. (And doing in days what would have taken weeks.) I'm talking about actually built-out products with a decent amount of code and features, not basic prototypes. I feel like the vibe is "put up or shut up", so check out my bio for one example. I think your logic goes wrong because you ass…

> check out my bio for one example.

First thing I got was “browser not supported” on mobile. Then I visited the website on desktop and tested languages I’m fluent in and found immediate problems with all of them.

The voices in Portuguese are particular inexcusable, using the Portuguese flag with Brazilian voices; the accents are nothing alike and it’s not uncommon for native speakers of one to have difficulty understanding the other in verbal communication.

The knowledge assessments were subpar and didn’t seem to do anything; the words it tested almost all started with “a” and several are just the masculine/feminine variants. Then, even after I confirmed I knew every word, it still showed me some of those in the learning process, including incredibly basic ones like “I”, or “the”.

The website is something, and I very much appreciate you appear to be trying to build a service which respects the user, but I wouldn’t in good conscience recommend it to anyone. It feels like you have a particular disdain for Duolingo-style apps (I don’t blame you!) but there is so much more out there to explore in language learning.

Re: The creator of Claude Code's Claude setup

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Post by gedy »

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…

> 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

The thing is, if AI is what enabled this, there's no long term market for selling something vibe coded for thousands a month. Maybe right at this moment and good for him, but I have my doubts these random saas things have a future.

Re: The creator of Claude Code's Claude setup

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Post by bodge5000 »

TeodorDyakov wrote: post #243
bodge5000 wrote: post #213

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> shouldn't we be seeing a ton of 1 person startups? After months of hearing that people are producing software in months that would normally take years, the best examples of vibe coded software I've seen look like they would normally take months, not years. If you don't care how they're built or how long it took (which a user generally doesn't), much of the remaining shine comes off. If I'm wrong, I'd love to see it…

DO you have any idea of the man hours it took to build those large projects you are speaking of? Lets take Linux for example. Suppose for the sake of argument that Claude Code with Opus 4.5 is as smart as an average person(AGI), but with the added benefit that he can work 24/7. Suppose now i have millions of dollars to burn and am running 1000 such instances on max plans. Now if I have started running this agent sinc…

Linux is 34 years old, most large software projects are not. Also your using a specific version of Claude, and sure maybe this time is different (and every other time I've heard that over the past 5 years just isn't the same). I don't buy it, but lets go along with it. Going off that, we have the equivalent of 2 years development time according to whats being promised. Have you seen any software projects come out of Claude 4.5 Opus that you'd guess to have been a 2 year project? If so, please do share

Re: The creator of Claude Code's Claude setup

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Post by Aurornis »

michaelmcmillan wrote: post #188
Aurornis wrote: post #5

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> (is this the case for Anthropic employees?) It would be funny if the company paying software engineers $500K or more along with gold-plated stock options was limiting how much they could use the software their company was developing.

It is a long-standing policy at Netflix for employees to pay for their own subscriptions. It ensures that employees "live the member experience".

That’s for personal use at home.

I guarantee the engineers at Netflix who develop and test video streaming aren’t doing so on their family’s home Netflix plan.

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Post by erichocean »

djmips wrote: post #174
erichocean wrote: post #165

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> Ensure code is written in such a way that it's easy to understand for LLMs Over the summer last year, I had the AI (Gemini Pro 2.5) write base libraries from scratch that area easy for itself to write code against. Now GPro3 can one-shot (with, at most, a single debug loop at the REPL) 100% of the normal code I need developed (back office/business-type code). Huge productivity booster, there are a few things that a…

How would you characterize code is easy for AI to write code against. - and wouldn't that also be true for humans?

All relevant code fits in context. Functional APIs. Standard data structures. Design documents for everything.

I'm doing this in a Clojure context, so that helps—the core language/libraries are unusually stable and widely used and so feature-complete there's basically no hallucinations.

Re: The creator of Claude Code's Claude setup

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Post by CharlieDigital »

ed_mercer wrote: post #244
CharlieDigital wrote: post #241

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> shouldn't we be seeing a ton of 1 person startups? Here's the dirty secret: 1 person AI coding enabled startups don't want their customers to know that they are 1 engineer AI coding startups so they do not expose it or share that info. There is still a lot of negative sentiment associated with this. I know 3 such founders; none would advertise to their customers the extent of their AI usage. There is also a conside…

Agreed, it's never been a better time to start a startup with a very small team.

The key (based on my exp with these 3) is the composition of the team.

At least 1 person on the team needs to have domain experience and if solo, that solo founder needs to have domain experience and good connections or the wherewithal to get the first handful of paying customers via cold calling, cold emails. The main challenge remains sales, marketing, and branding. There are free CRMs and anyone can build a CRM. Why do some CRMs succeed while others fail? Branding, marketing, awareness.

So I don't see it as "there will just be 10x more competitors" because I've built enough stuff that I failed to sell and used enough shitty software to know that the software itself is rarely the reason why people buy X over Y. It's because they didn't even know Y existed.

Re: The creator of Claude Code's Claude setup

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Post by vidarh »

eru wrote: post #235
vidarh wrote: post #172

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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 s…

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

Sure, but I'd prefer to catch it before that, not least because it's a simpler feedback loop to ensure Claude fixes its own messes.

> 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.

Claude seems to "love" to use linters and error messages if it's given the chance and/or the project structure hints at an ecosystem where certain tools are usually available. But just e.g. listing by name a set of commands it can use to check things in CLAUDE.md will often be enough to have it run it aggressively.

If not enough, you can use hooks to either force it, or sternly remind it after every file edit, or e.g. before it attempts to git commit.

Re: The creator of Claude Code's Claude setup

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Post by qwertox »

How come that Claude Code isn't open source?

I can't imagine that it has some kind of special access to Anthropic's servers and that it does things an API-user can't do, maybe except for the option to use the Claude.ai credits/quota.

Even their Agent SDK just wraps the `claude`-executable, IIRC.

Re: The creator of Claude Code's Claude setup

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Post by lostmsu »

disgruntledphd2 wrote: post #237
ijidak wrote: post #215

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

He began hiring in 2018.

Also, "Plenty of Fish uses a Microsoft-based platform for itself, including IIS, ASP.NET, and Microsoft SQL".

Re: The creator of Claude Code's Claude setup

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Post by blitzar »

ramraj07 wrote: post #63
jedberg wrote: post #30

The funniest part of that whole thing was when someone said "I trusted you, but you use light mode on your terminal" and then he replied that people stop by his desk daily just to make fun of him for it.

The irony is that light mode is objectively the correct way to use things.

Its like the space tab wars all over again.
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