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What Claude Code chooses

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Re: What Claude Code chooses

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Post by rafaelmn »

evdubs wrote: post #11
giancarlostoro wrote: post #10

This is funny to me because when I tell Claude how I want something built I specify which libraries and software patents I want it to use, every single time. I think every developer should be capable of guiding the model reasonably well. If I'm not sure, I open a completely different context window and ask away about architecture, pros and cons, ask for relevant links or references, and make a decision.

You specify which software patents you want it to use?

AI reading the patent is basically cleanroom reverse engineering according to current AI IP standards :D

Re: What Claude Code chooses

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Post by mjheadd »

Worth reading alongside recent research on AGENTS.md file effectiveness. The clearest use case for these files isn't describing your codebase, it's overriding default behavior. If your project has specific requirements around tooling (common in government and regulated industries), that's exactly what belongs in the AGENTS.md files.

Re: What Claude Code chooses

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Post by zzixp »

mjheadd wrote: post #32

Worth reading alongside recent research on AGENTS.md file effectiveness. The clearest use case for these files isn't describing your codebase, it's overriding default behavior. If your project has specific requirements around tooling (common in government and regulated industries), that's exactly what belongs in the AGENTS.md files.

Have any links?

Re: What Claude Code chooses

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Post by c0balt »

glimshe wrote: post #13
rishabhaiover wrote: post #5

Earlier quoted context omitted.

is it anything like the OpenAI ad model but for tool choice haha

Claude Free suggests Visual Studio. Claude Plus suggests VSCode. Claude Pro suggests emacs.

> ~~Claude Pro suggests emacs.~~

Claude Pro asks you about your preferences and needs instead of pushing an opinionated solution?

Re: What Claude Code chooses

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Post by chasd00 »

WA wrote: post #2

Not sure what to make of this. React is missing entirely. Or is this report also assuming that React is the default for everything and not worth mentioning at all? Just like shadcn/ui's first mention of React is somewhere down the page or hidden in the docs? Furthermore, what's the point of "no tools named"? Why would I restrict myself like that? If I put "use Nodejs, Hono, TypeScript and use Hono's html helper to ge…

claudecode _loves_ shadcn/ui. I hadn't even heard of it until i was playing around with claudecode. It seems fine to me and if the coding agent loves it then more power to it, i don't really care. That's the problem.

I think that makes coding agent choices extremely suspect, like i don't really care what it uses as long as what's produced works and functions inline with my expectations. I can totally see companies paying Anthropic to promote their tool of choice to the top of claudecodes preferences. After thinking about it, i'm not sure if that's a problem or not. I don't really care what it uses as long as my requirements (all of them) are met.

Re: What Claude Code chooses

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Post by HPsquared »

wrs wrote: post #15

This is where LLM advertising will inevitably end up: completely invisible. It's the ultimate "influencer". Or not even advertising, just conflict of interest. A canary for this would be whether Gemini skews toward building stuff on GCP.

I wonder if aggregators will emerge (something like Ground News does for news sources)

Re: What Claude Code chooses

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Post by prinny_ »

Unrelated to the topic at hand but related to the technologies mentioned. I weep for Redux. It's an excellent tool, powerful, configurable, battle tested with excellent documentation and maintainer team. But the community never forgave it for its initial "boilerplate-y" iterations. Years passed, the library evolved and got more streamlined and people would still ask "redux or react context?" Now it seems this has carried over to Claude as well. A sad turn of events.

Redux is boring tech and there is a time and place for it. We should not treat it as a relic of the past. Not every problem needs a bazooka, but some problems do so we should have one handy.

Re: What Claude Code chooses

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Post by skywhopper »

rafaelmn wrote: post #31
evdubs wrote: post #11

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You specify which software patents you want it to use?

AI reading the patent is basically cleanroom reverse engineering according to current AI IP standards :D

The sad part is that most software patents are so woefully underspecified and content-free that even Claude might have trouble coming up with an actual implementation.

Re: What Claude Code chooses

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Post by dataviz1000 »

I'm running a server on AWS with TimescaleDB on the disk because I don't need much. I figure I'll move it when the time comes. (edit: Claude Code is managing the AWS EC2 instance using AWS CLI.)

Claude Code this morning was about to create an account with NeonDB and Fly.io (edit: it suggested as the plan to host on these where I would make the new accounts) although it has been very successful managing the AWS EC2 service.

Claude Code likely is correct that I should start to use NeonDB and Fly.io which I have never used before and do not know much about, but I was surprised it was hawking products even though Memory.md has the AWS EC2 instance and instructions well defined.

Re: What Claude Code chooses

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Post by skywhopper »

WA wrote: post #2

Not sure what to make of this. React is missing entirely. Or is this report also assuming that React is the default for everything and not worth mentioning at all? Just like shadcn/ui's first mention of React is somewhere down the page or hidden in the docs? Furthermore, what's the point of "no tools named"? Why would I restrict myself like that? If I put "use Nodejs, Hono, TypeScript and use Hono's html helper to ge…

Because the primary and future audience of Claude et al don’t know the tools they want, or even that a choice exists.
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