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Re: Claude Code on the web

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Post by wayeq »

mmaunder wrote: post #367
joenot443 wrote: post #354

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Actually, there are more internet users today than at any point in history. The internet is far from dead. The commenter in question is the CTO of the company which makes Wordfence. My instinct says they're not on the OpenAI payroll and you're looking at a normal comment and not advertisement. I think you should check your priors man; it's worth thinking critically before you toss out accusations like that.

Thanks joenot443. I suspect the only way to prove that I’m legit to the doubters is to do something a paid shill or a bot would never ever do. To the commenters who think I’m a shill or bot: fuck every single one of you and the various motherfucking horses you rode in on. I suspect we may be entering a dystopia where vulgarity is proof of life.

> fuck every single one of you and the various motherfucking horses you rode in on.

Maybe you're an LLM trained on 4chan

Re: Claude Code on the web

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Post by dns_snek »

ssk42 wrote: post #361
dns_snek wrote: post #355

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So your take is that every real software developer I know is simply bad at using this magical tool that performs on the level of mid-senior level software engineer in the hands of a few chosen ones? But the chosen ones never build anything in public where it can be observed, evaluated, and critiqued. How unfortunate is that? The people I talked to use a wide variety of environments and their experience is similar acr…

People do build in public from vibe-coding, absolutely. This tells me that you have not done your research and just gone off of general guesses or pessimism/frustration from not knowing how to use the tool. The easiest way to be able to find this on Github is to look for where Claude is a contributor. Claude will tag itself in the PR or pushes. Another easy way to that I've seen come up for this is there is a whole "…

Of course people vibe-code in public - I was clear that I wanted to see evidence of these amazing productivity improvements. If people are building something decent but it takes them 3 or 4 times as long as it would take me, I don't care. That's great for them but it's worthless to me because it's not evidence of a productivity increase.

> there are also products being made are actually versatile, complex, and completely vibe-coded.

Which ones? I'm looking for repositories that are at least partially video-documented to see the author's process in action.

Re: Claude Code on the web

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Post by myko »

losteric wrote: post #135
myko wrote: post #20

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> Nah, just go play air hockey until your boss realizes Claude is what they need, not you. This is a depressing comment. I am apprehensive about the future of software development in this milieu. I've pumped out a ~15,000 line application heavily utilizing Claude Code over a few days that seems to work, but I don't know how much to trust it. Certainly part of the fun of building something was missing during that proj…

> I've pumped out a ~15,000 line application heavily utilizing Claude Code over a few days that seems to work, but I don't know how much to trust it. Can I ask what you built?

https://github.com/Chuntttttt/TapeDeck

There was a post recently where someone linked to: https://simplyexplained.com/blog/how-i-built-an-nfc-movie-li...

and I thought the project was amazing, but I didn't like how the IDs were managed in yml, so I built this to make it more dynamic. I plan to add support for other smart home automations with it as well as more streaming services.

One of the features I really like about it is it makes it easy to print and cut out stickers to slap on the NFC cards for playing media.

My toddler loves it so far and one of his friend's has asked me to make one for him as well

Re: Claude Code on the web

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Post by cpursley »

ryuuseijin wrote: post #271
jswny wrote: post #144

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I find Codex CLI to be very good too, but it’s missing tons of features that I use in Claude Code daily that keep me from switching full time. - Good bash command permission system - Rollbacks coupled with conversation and code - Easy switching between approval modes (Claude had a keybind that makes this easy) - Ability to send messages while it’s working (Codex just queues them up for after it’s done, Claude injects…

I'm using opencode which I think is now very close to covering all the functionality of claude code. You can use GPT5 Codex with it along with most other models.

Is there a way to use this with your own openai or anthropic keys?

Re: Claude Code on the web

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Post by unsupp0rted »

mmaunder wrote: post #41

We were heavy users of Claude Code ($70K+ spend per year) and have almost completely switched to codex CLI. I'm doing massive lifts with it on software that would never before have been feasible for me personally, or any team I've ever run. I'll use Claude Code maybe once every two weeks as a second set of eyes to inspect code and document a bug, with mixed success. But my experience has been that initially Claude Co…

This was my experience too until a couple weeks ago, when Codex suddenly got dumbed down.

Initially, I had great success with codex medium- I could refactor with confidence, code generally ran on the first or second try, etc.

Then when that suddenly dumbed down to Claude Sonnet 3.5 quality I moved to GPT5 High to get back what had been lost. That was okay for a few days. Now GPT5 High has dropped to Claude Sonnet 3.5 quality.

There's nothing left to fallback to.

Re: Claude Code on the web

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Post by cpursley »

dns_snek wrote: post #274
neya wrote: post #240

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For what it's worth, I'm not affiliated with Open AI (you can verify by my comment history [1] and account age) and I agree with the top comment. I do Elixir consulting primarily and nothing beats OpenAI's model at the moment for Elixir. Previously, their O3 models were quite decent. But, GPT-5 is really damn good. Claude code will unnecessarily try to complicate a problem solution. [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/i…

This is hilarious because for me Cursor with GPT-5 often generates Elixir that isn't even syntactically correct. It needs to be told not to use return statements, and not to try to index linked lists as arrays. Code is painfully non-idiomatic to the point of being borderline useless even in the simpler cases. Claude Sonnet 4.5 is marginally better, but not by much. Any ambitious overhaul, refactoring or large feature…

Try tidewave.ai, Jose made it (mcp thingy). Works well with GPT-5.

Re: Claude Code on the web

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Post by mmaunder »

wayeq wrote: post #371
mmaunder wrote: post #367

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Thanks joenot443. I suspect the only way to prove that I’m legit to the doubters is to do something a paid shill or a bot would never ever do. To the commenters who think I’m a shill or bot: fuck every single one of you and the various motherfucking horses you rode in on. I suspect we may be entering a dystopia where vulgarity is proof of life.

> fuck every single one of you and the various motherfucking horses you rode in on. Maybe you're an LLM trained on 4chan

lol - touche. Although I suspect that would have been far worse had that been the case.

Re: Claude Code on the web

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Post by extr »

deaux wrote: post #347
extr wrote: post #116

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Sonnet 4.5/CC is faster, more direct, and is generally better at following my intent rather than the letter of my prompt. A large chunk of my tasks are not "solve this concurrency bug" or "write this entire feature" but rather "CLI ops", merging commits, running a linter, deploying a service, etc. I almost use it like it was my shell. Also while not quite as smart, it's a better pair programmer. If I'm feeling out a…

Strangely enough this is one of the first times here I see someone with the exact same experience. GPT-5 is very prone to a style that would for most codebases be overengineering. I think as a large part of HN works on huge enterprise FAANG-like code, this is where it shines, so here it gets rave reviews of just being the best overall. But globally, for most developers, it's overengineering and adds a lot of unnecess…

Glad I'm not crazy, the tide right now of codex > sonnet is overwhelming. Frankly I think what most people go by is "does the code work" - codex is admittedly relentless. It's very good at producing code that works. But "does it work" is not the end-all-be-all in most cases...

Re: Claude Code on the web

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Post by navanchauhan »

joshdev wrote: post #324
navanchauhan wrote: post #60

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I used `sandbox-exec` previously before moving to a better solution (done right, sandboxing on macOS can be more powerful than Linux imo). The way `sandbox-exec` works is that all child processes inherit the same restrictions. For example, if you run `sandbox-exec $rules claude --dangerously-skip-permissions`, any commands executed by Claude through a shell will also be bound by those same rules. Since the sandbox se…

What is the better solution you’ve moved on to?

Endpoint Security Extension and Network Extension

Re: Claude Code on the web

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Post by iammrpayments »

wayeq wrote: post #371
mmaunder wrote: post #367

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Thanks joenot443. I suspect the only way to prove that I’m legit to the doubters is to do something a paid shill or a bot would never ever do. To the commenters who think I’m a shill or bot: fuck every single one of you and the various motherfucking horses you rode in on. I suspect we may be entering a dystopia where vulgarity is proof of life.

> fuck every single one of you and the various motherfucking horses you rode in on. Maybe you're an LLM trained on 4chan

I actually think people on 4chan and even reddit don’t get angry that quickly because it’s an anonymous posting board so there’s nothing to be defensive about, unless you’re really invested on an opinion, which makes me suspect this even more, why would he start cursing when he was just bragging about spending 70k?

It I posted on reddit about how I just spent 70k on a watch and someone replied that they didn’t trust me, maybe I would laugh or reply with “whatever”, but never would I reply in anger.

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