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Claude Code is your customer

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Re: Claude Code is your customer

#31

Every single blogger is running to make a post talking about how ai can visit websites now in different words.

I wonder how much it can be automated? Like to tell the model to

1. read the first 5 pages of HN

2. if there is a common theme, use a search engine to 'do your own research' and collect references

3. read your existing blog posts

4. write a new article with the same theme but in your style

5. post the link back to HN

Re: Claude Code is your customer

#34

I use claude code daily, but I've never been in a situation where Claude code was "deciding which product to use," that doesn't make sense to me. Claude is never on the web reading documentation - as far as I can tell that's not even in its toolkit. Can anyone give me more context for this? How do you end up having Claude code reading documentation and "choosing" a product to use? What type of prompts lead to this? I…

> Claude is never on the web reading documentation

That is how I use it almost every day. "Here's the link to an API doc. Read it, write a new Skill around it, and [solve this problem with it]."

Re: Claude Code is your customer

#35

Every single blogger is running to make a post talking about how ai can visit websites now in different words.

I wonder how much it can be automated? Like to tell the model to 1. read the first 5 pages of HN 2. if there is a common theme, use a search engine to 'do your own research' and collect references 3. read your existing blog posts 4. write a new article with the same theme but in your style 5. post the link back to HN

There are entire youtube channels that are fully automated. Uploading tens of hours of "content" a day.

Doing the same in text would be trivial.

Re: Claude Code is your customer

#36

I use claude code daily, but I've never been in a situation where Claude code was "deciding which product to use," that doesn't make sense to me. Claude is never on the web reading documentation - as far as I can tell that's not even in its toolkit. Can anyone give me more context for this? How do you end up having Claude code reading documentation and "choosing" a product to use? What type of prompts lead to this? I…

I get several folks per week claiming an ai/llm recommended them my product, while I personally wouldn't run a procurement process that way, some certainly do.

> Claude is never on the web reading documentation - as far as I can tell that's not even in its toolkit.

Add the Context7 and grep MCP servers to your installation, it'll change your life (well it'll make claude less dumb).

Re: Claude Code is your customer

#37
post #24

I use claude code daily, but I've never been in a situation where Claude code was "deciding which product to use," that doesn't make sense to me. Claude is never on the web reading documentation - as far as I can tell that's not even in its toolkit. Can anyone give me more context for this? How do you end up having Claude code reading documentation and "choosing" a product to use? What type of prompts lead to this? I…

The choice happens implicitly rather than explicitly. If Claude tries an approach and hits a wall, it'll try a different approach. If an API call keeps not working, it'll choose a different API. It a tool is broken, it'll use something else. If it can't find docs nor read the code, it'll try to implement functionality from scratch. If you give it messy tools with confusing docs, you'll notice Claude not calling them…

"something simpler/simpler approach" are terms I search for in evals because they almost always indicate the model going off the rails (assuming the input prompt was decent).

Re: Claude Code is your customer

#38

I think Claude Opus needs to re-read Steve Yegge's platform rant and rewrite that part about Amazon. https://gist.github.com/chitchcock/1281611

Oh, I never realized this was written by the same guy that made Beads and Gas Town

His pre-existing street cred is the reason you heard about them in the first place

Re: Claude Code is your customer

#39
post #8

> I think by 2030 any product without an API designed for agents will be dead And I think that products making billions today by only exposing a 20yo SOAP API are still going to make billions in 4 years. I hate having to work with them, but I've been playing this game long enough to know that most of the world is running on legacy software and it won't change in about 1400 days.

It depends on who the customer is. Government and regulated industries have massive inertia, consumers and startups will spin on a dime.

Re: Claude Code is your customer

#40

I'm going to say an unpopular opinion here: I think agents are going to turn out mostly useless, even if they worked almost perfectly. How many jobs involve purely clicking things on a computer without human authorities, rules, regulations, permits, spending agreements, privacy laws, security requirements, insurance requirements, or licensing gates? I wager, almost none. The bottleneck in most work isn't "clicking th…

I worked in the fraud department for for a big bank (handling questionable transactions). I can say with 100% certainty an agent could do the job better than 80% of the people I worked with and cheaper than the other 20%.

which group are you in?
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