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Re: A few random notes from Claude coding quite a bit last few weeks

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Post by crystal_revenge »

TaupeRanger wrote: post #52
hollowturtle wrote: post #32

> Coding workflow. Given the latest lift in LLM coding capability, like many others I rapidly went from about 80% manual+autocomplete coding and 20% agents in November to 80% agent coding and 20% edits+touchups in December Anyone wondering what exactly is he actually building? What? Where? > The mistakes have changed a lot - they are not simple syntax errors anymore, they are subtle conceptual errors that a slightly…

Lots of very scared, angry developers in these comment sections recently...

There's no fear (a bit of anger I must admit). I suspect nearly all of the reaction against this comes from a similar place to where mine does:

All of the real world code I have had to review created by AI is buggy slop (often with subtle, but weird bugs that don't show up for a while). But on HN I'm told "this is because your co-workers don't know how to AI right!!!!" Then when someone who supposedly must be an expert in getting things done with AI posts, it's always big claims with hand-wavy explanations/evidence.

Then the comments section is littered with no effort comments like this.

Yet oddly whenever anyone asks "show me the thing you built?" Either it looks like every other half-working vibe coded CRUD app... or it doesn't exist/can't be shown.

If you tell me you have discovered a miracle tool, just some me the results. Not taking increasingly ridiculous claims at face value is not "fear". What I don't understand is where comments like yours come from? What makes you need this to be more than it is?

Re: A few random notes from Claude coding quite a bit last few weeks

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Post by throwthrowuknow »

d0mine wrote: post #234
sailfast wrote: post #204

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That’s far-fetched. It’s in the interest of the model builders to solve your problem as efficiently as possible token-wise. High value to user + lower compute costs = better pricing power and better margins overall.

> far-fetched Remember Google? Once it was far-fetched that they would make the search worse just to show you more ads. Now, it is a reality. With tokens, it is even more direct. The more tokens users spend, the more money for providers.

Only if you are paying per token on the API. If you are paying a fixed monthly fee then they lose money when you need to burn more tokens and they lose customers when you can’t solve your problems within that month and max out your session limits and end up with idle time which you use to check if the other providers have caught up or surpassed your current favourite.

Re: A few random notes from Claude coding quite a bit last few weeks

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Post by DominikPeters »

twa927 wrote: post #121

I don't see the AI capacity jump in the recent months at all. For me it's more the opposite, CC works worse than a few months ago. Keeps forgetting the rules from CLAUDE.md, hallucinates function calls, generates tons of over-verbose plans, generates overengineered code. Where I find it a clear net-positive is pure frontend code (HTML + Tailwind), it's spaghetti but since it's just visualization, it's OK.

Are you using Opus 4.5? Sounds more like Sonnet.

Re: A few random notes from Claude coding quite a bit last few weeks

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Post by pas »

ipaddr wrote: post #253
fooker wrote: post #187

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Luxury watches have gone up, 'clocks' as a technology is cheaper than ever. You can buy one for 90 cents on temu.

The landing cost for that 90 cent watch has gone way up. Shipping and to some degree taxes has pushed the price higher.

that's not the technology

of course it's silly to talk about manufacturing methods and yield and cost efficiency without having an economy to embed all of this into, but ... technology got cheaper means that we have practical knowledge of how to make cheap clocks (given certain supply chains, given certain volume, and so and so)

we can make very cheap very accurate clocks that can be embedded into whatever devices, but it requires the availability of fabs capable of doing MEMS components, supply materials, etc.

Re: A few random notes from Claude coding quite a bit last few weeks

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Post by crystal_revenge »

Banditoz wrote: post #286
TaupeRanger wrote: post #52

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Lots of very scared, angry developers in these comment sections recently...

This is extremely reductive and incredibly dismissive of everything they wrote above.

It's because they don't have a substantive response to it, so they resort to ad hominems.

I've worked extensively in the AI space, and believe that it is extremely useful, but these weird claims (even from people I respect a lot) that "something big and mysterious is happening, I just can't show you yet!" set of my alarms.

When sensible questions are met with ad hominems by supporters it further sets of alarm bells.

Re: A few random notes from Claude coding quite a bit last few weeks

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Post by pas »

ipaddr wrote: post #248
simianwords wrote: post #190

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not true, clocks have gone down after accounting for inflation. verified using ChatGPT.

You can't account for inflation because the price increase is inflation.

you can look at a basket of goods that doesn't have your specific product and compare directly

but inflation is the general price level increase, this can be used as a deflator to get the price of whatever product in past/future money amount to see how the price of the product changed in "real" terms (ie. relative to the general price level change)

Re: A few random notes from Claude coding quite a bit last few weeks

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Post by CamperBob2 »

bflesch wrote: post #182
simonw wrote: post #132

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Have you tried showing it a copy of your coding standards? I also find pointing it to an existing folder full of code that conforms to certain standards can work really well.

Yeah let's share all your IP for the vague promise that it will somehow work ;)

(Shrug) If you're not willing to make that tradeoff, you'll be outcompeted by people who are. Your call.

Re: A few random notes from Claude coding quite a bit last few weeks

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Post by jasonfarnon »

rishabhaiover wrote: post #245
BeetleB wrote: post #237

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This is a major concern for junior programmers. For many senior ones, after 20 (or even 10) years of tenacious work, they realize that such work will always be there, and they long ago stopped growing on that front (i.e. they had already peaked). For those folks, LLMs are a life saver. At a company I worked for, lots of senior engineers become managers because they no longer want to obsess over whether their algorith…

That's just sad. Right when I found love in what I do, my work has no value anymore.

Aren't you still better off than the rest of us who found what they love + invested decades in it before it lost its value. Isn't it better to lose your love when you still have time to find a new one?

Re: A few random notes from Claude coding quite a bit last few weeks

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Post by giancarlostoro »

> IDEs/agent swarms/fallability. Both the "no need for IDE anymore" hype and the "agent swarm" hype is imo too much for right now.

I'm honestly considering throwing away my JetBrains subscription and this is year 9 or 10 of me having one. I only open Zed and start yappin' at Claude Code. My employer doesn't even want me using ReSharper because some contractor ruined it for everyone else by auto running all code suggestions and checking them in blindly, making for really obnoxious code diffs and probably introducing countless bugs and issues.

Meanwhile tasks that I know would take any developers months, I can hand-craft with Claude in a few hours, with the same level of detail, but no endless weeks of working on things that'll be done SoonTM.

Re: A few random notes from Claude coding quite a bit last few weeks

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Post by duckmysick »

spaceman_2020 wrote: post #198
shj2105 wrote: post #83

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Why is plain Claude code outdated? I thought that’s what most people are using right now that are AI forward. Is it Ralph loops now that’s the new thing?

Plain Claude Code doesn’t have enough scaffolding to handle large projects At a base level, people are “upgrading” their Claude Code with custom skills and subagents - all text files saved in .claude/agents|skills. You can also use their new tasks primitive to basically run a Ralph-like loop But at the edges, people are using multiple instances, each handling different aspects in parallel - stuff like Gas Town Tbf yo…

Is there anywhere where we can learn more about creating your own agents/skills? Maybe some decent public repos that you could recommend.
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