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Addicted to Claude Code–Help

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Re: Addicted to Claude Code–Help

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I agree, Claude Code has been addictive for me too. It feels like I'm finally churning through a backlog that has been weighing on me for years (decades even). Maybe the addiction is not to Claude but to productivity, and Claude is just an enabler. (And maybe the productivity is an illusion, time will tell.)

I am also finally churning through a decade old backlog. Mostly because some of the items are so big and would otherwise require so much dedication that I’d have to do nothing else for a long while: a git-powered issue tracker, a highly secure git forge, a blog platform on top of a static site generator, an agentic orchestrator, a Nix flake that can pass ISAE 3000 as a managed alternative to Windows and MacOS.

Not that I’ll start working on each of these this year. But even prioritising them eventually.

Claude Code gives me the courage to imagine that I’ll have actual progress on big things because it helps me maintain an overview and not get stuck on details or gas out or lose interest, which I tend to.

I recently rediscovered that I had done progress on the issue tracker 8 months ago and that this was so well-made in retrospect it motivated me to pick it up and continue. Leaving something in a well- documented way with weeks of effort poured into it over days is just a gift.

Re: Addicted to Claude Code–Help

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'm seeing the limits when Claude makes some statements that are extremely wrong but incredibly hard to spot unless you're in the field, recently telling me that "some people say" that rydberg atoms and neutral atoms are different enough to be in different quantum computing categories (they're the same). The stakes are lowering somehow, because I know I can't trust it for anything but fun side-projects. For serious r…

I'm not trying to convert you, just want to share process tips that I see working for me and others. We're using agents, not a chat, because they can do complex work in pursuit of a goal. 1. Make artifacts. If you're doing research into a tech, or a hypothesis, then fire off subagents to explore different parts of the problem space, each reporting back into a doc. Then another agent synthesizes the docs into a conclu…

Thanks for the thoughtful reply! I definitely want to try a more complex setup when I have more time on my hands
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