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Re: Claude Code On-the-Go

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Post by nunobrito »

oblio wrote: post #180
rhubarbtree wrote: post #59

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What tool do you use, which languages? Could you give us an example of something you’ve built and how you did it 25 times faster?

You'd be surprised what you can do with Claude Code. Pick any mature programming language, including niche ones like Ada and treat the project seriously. Write detailed agent files, features spec files, start from the bottom with CI/CD and set up a test suite, coding guidelines, static analysis. Be careful to create a consistent architecture and code base early. You'll get a lot further and faster than you'd expect.…

That is correct. I'm able to steer the project and find many of the issues because of experience. Also, it is indeed a new tool so is necessary to change our own mentality about the way how code is created (generated). In overall it is fantastic despite the occasional frustration when the computer hangs (too many compilers at the same time) or when AI gets lazy and tries to avoid implementing what it was asked.

Re: Claude Code On-the-Go

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ccoreilly wrote: post #308
nunobrito wrote: post #121

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Using Claude code Pro with a maxed subscription and ChatGPT Codex with the business subscription. The code is written in Dart and never wrote a line of DART in my life, I'm a veteran expert around Java, C++. The reason for choosing DART is simply because it is way readier for multi-platform contexts than Java/C++. The same code base now runs on Linux, Android, iOS, OSX, Windows and Web (as static HTML). Plus the comp…

Would you say you’re able to draw a diagram of the application architecture out of your head or do you treat it as a black box? Do you need an AI to debug issues or not? In my experience with spec driven development, even if reviewing every single PR, it is hard to develop a mental model of the codebase structure unless you invest on it. It might be fine to treat it as a black box, not arguing the opposite but will a…

For a completely new project it is a high risk. While the AI is fantastic at brainstorming and writing detailed architecture, it is difficult to get the "big picture" and even more difficult to verify that it is being done correctly or which things can be improved/reused, because on this situation you don't look into the code.

I don't believe people will spend time looking at the code beyond the small blurbs they can read from the command line while talking with the AI, so I agree with you that it ends being treated as a blackbox.

Did an experiment for a server implementation in Java (my strong language), gave the usual instructions and built up the server. When I went to look into the code, it was a far smaller and more concise code base than what I would write myself. AI is treating programming language on the level of a compiler for javascript, it will make the instructions super efficient and uses techniques that on my 30 years experience I'm not able to pair-review because we tend to have our own patterns of programming while these tools use everything, no matter how exotic they will use it to their advantage.

After that experience I don't look at generated source code any longer. For me it is becoming the same as trying to look at compiled binary data.

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Post by bogtap82 »

manmal wrote: post #306
bogtap82 wrote: post #66

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I've been running a variation of this for the past 3 weeks. I swapped out the default pi agent back to Claude Code because I didn't like the smaller feature set. Bought a phone line and communicate with my agent via iMessage on a clamshelled mac. A Tailscale network connect the head agent to all the computers on my network including my laptop, a few raspberry pi's, steam deck, and all the IoT devices in my house. As…

Both clawdbot and pi have improved and expanded functionality a lot during the last 3 weeks, maybe worth another look? What you have described sounds a lot like the experience I’m having.

At this point I really don't want to even imagine the headache of implementing their codebase updates into all the custom scaffolding that my own fork relies on now. I think my plan going forward is to cherry pick features that sound interesting and re-implement on my own using my agent that has proper documentation on my personal configuration. Will check out what's new though.

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Post by nunobrito »

FEELmyAGI wrote: post #148
nunobrito wrote: post #121

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Using Claude code Pro with a maxed subscription and ChatGPT Codex with the business subscription. The code is written in Dart and never wrote a line of DART in my life, I'm a veteran expert around Java, C++. The reason for choosing DART is simply because it is way readier for multi-platform contexts than Java/C++. The same code base now runs on Linux, Android, iOS, OSX, Windows and Web (as static HTML). Plus the comp…

Would you describe this product as a whole application suite (blogging, calendar, commerce) plus its own backend infrastructure that is capable of serving these apps to the public internet and functioning offline via ad-hoc wireless peer-to-peer, with a cryptographic layer providing identity, security and censorship resistance, and that runs on phone, laptop or raspberry pi? Quite ambitious. Is this an LLM hallucinat…

> leaking your personal desktop session?

I've answered in more detail on the other reply below on the conversation. Thank you for spotting that.

> Would you describe this product as a whole application suite

The rabbit hole goes even further. The reason why callsigns are used is because geogram can happily communicate using radio-waves on walkie-talkies without internet at all. On the previous iterations (before AI) it was sending free SMS using walkie-talkies and satellites (APRS), this current incarnation should soon be doing the same things too. A presentation from two months ago: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nb_VUSaNw8k

This is a niche app, written for our community in Portugal to connect with each other.

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Post by clanky »

ryanjshaw wrote: post #195
clanky wrote: post #115

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This technology should be liberatory, and allow us all to work less while enjoying the same standard of living. We've all contributed in its development by creating the whole corpus of the internet, without which it could never have been bootstrapped. The only reason we can't expect this is that we live under a system that is arranged for the sole benefit of the owners of capital, and have been convinced that this is…

> we live under a system that is arranged for the sole benefit of the owners of capital, and have been convinced that this is an immutable state of affairs What alternative do you propose?

"Let us finally imagine, for a change, an association of free men, working with the means of production held in common ...."

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Post by samyok »

chekos wrote: post #317

tried recreating this but I don't see Poke's webhook stuff on the docs

I work on Poke; admittedly the docs[1] are a bit hidden but we're spending Q1 making it far easier for developers to work with Poke, feel free to email me if you're having any troubles!

[1]: https://poke.com/docs/developers/api/message-poke

Re: Claude Code On-the-Go

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Post by [deleted] »

granda wrote: post #269

Author here! Thanks for checking it out. On the $210/month VM cost - fair point. For me it's worth it because I'm running multiple parallel agents throughout the day, but you could definitely do this cheaper with a smaller instance or spot pricing. The real bottleneck isn't typing on mobile - it's reviewing the output. I've found 2-3 parallel agents is my sweet spot before I can't keep up with reviewing PRs. Git work…

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