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Re: Claude Code Routines

#31

Put Claude Code on autopilot. Define routines that run on a schedule, trigger on API calls, or react to GitHub events... We ought to come up with a term for this new discipline, eg "software engineering" or "programming"

Setting up your agent. This part doesn't deserve a name; there is no programming or engineering or really much thinking involved.

Re: Claude Code Routines

#32

Put Claude Code on autopilot. Define routines that run on a schedule, trigger on API calls, or react to GitHub events... We ought to come up with a term for this new discipline, eg "software engineering" or "programming"

Does ‘vibe coding’ work?

Re: Claude Code Routines

#33
post #22

Nice, could this enable n8n-style workflows that run fully automatically then?

Already very possible and super easy if you do a little vibecoding. Although it will hit the api. Have a stack polling my email every five minutes, classifying email, taking action based on the types. 30 minute coding session.

Re: Claude Code Routines

#34

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Hard to wanna go all-in on the Anthropic ecosystem with how inconsistent model output from their top-tier has been recently. I pay $$$ for api-level opus 4.6 to avoid any low-tier binning or throttling or subversive "its peak rn so we're gonna serve up sonnet in place of opus for the next few hours" but I still find that the quality has been really hit or miss lately. The bell curve up and then back down has been so…

yeah i mean nobody uses Claude anymore, the utilization is too high

right, like the bar nobody goes to anymore bc it's always too crowded

Re: Claude Code Routines

#36
post #22

Nice, could this enable n8n-style workflows that run fully automatically then?

Yes but much less efficiently. Having LLMs handle automation is like using a steam engine to heat your bath water. It will work most of the time but it's super inefficient and not really designed for that use and it can go horribly wrong from time to time.

Correct. But the llm can also program you the exact automation you want! Much more efficiently than gui madness with N8N. And if you want observability just program that too!

Re: Claude Code Routines

#37

Still no moat. The reason someone would use this vs. third-party alternatives is still the fact that the $200/mo subscription is markedly cheaper than per-token API billing. Not sure how this works out in the long term when switching costs are virtually zero.

I think at this point the aim is less about moat, and more about getting an advantage that self-sustains: https://www.rand.org/pubs/research_reports/RRA4444-1.html

Re: Claude Code Routines

#38

OpenClawd had about a two week moat... Feature delivery rate by Anthropic is basically a fast takeoff in miniature. Pushing out multiple features each week that used to take enterprises quarters to deliver.

Anthropic is trying to be AI version of AWS.

Re: Claude Code Routines

#39
post #25

I'm a little confused on the ToS here. From what I gathered, running `claude -p ` on cron is fine, but putting it in my Telegram bot is a ToS violation (unless I use per-token billing) because it's a 3rd party harness, right? (`claude -p` being a trivial workaround for the "no 3rd party stuff on the subscription" rule) This Routines feature notably works with the subscription, and it also has API callbacks. So if my…

Wait we can't use claude -p around other tools? What is the point of the JSON SDK then? Anthropic is confusing here, ugh.

edit: And specifically i'm making an IDE, and trying to get ClaudeCode into it. I frankly have no clue when Claude usage is simply part of an IDE and "okay" and when it becomes a third party harness..

Re: Claude Code Routines

#40
meta:

Sorry, but I just have to ask. Why is u/minimaxir's comment dead? Is this somehow an error, an attack, or what?

This is a respected user, with a sane question, no?

I vouched, but not enough.

edit: His comment has arisen now. Leaving this up for reference.

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