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Re: The creator of Claude Code's Claude setup

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Post by latexr »

sneak wrote: post #408
latexr wrote: post #227

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> I don’t think it’s industry-wide yet, but it will be relatively soon. > Check back in on your assessment in a year. We’ve all read that, and claims grander than that, multiple times over the past few years. And next year someone will say it again.

No, before the tools weren’t good enough. Now they are. Not everyone is using them yet, but they will. There’s zero doubt about it anymore. Lots of people are still not up to date on what is currently possible.

All of that has been said before, too.

> Not everyone is using them yet, but they will. There’s zero doubt about it anymore.

That’s not true. On HN and elsewhere you’ll find no shortage of folks who don’t use those tools because they don’t want to. People who find enjoyment in doing the thinking and programming themselves, for whom doing it is the goal. For others there are legal and moral considerations. It’s unrealistic to think everyone will be using LLMs for coding, they won’t. Not everyone thinks alike, but for some reason proponents seem incapable of understanding that. All it takes is a bit of empathy and listening to your fellow humans.

Re: The creator of Claude Code's Claude setup

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Post by heraldgeezer »

senordevnyc wrote: post #349
crystal_revenge wrote: post #169

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My initial response to reading this post was "wow, I think I'd rather just write the code". I also remain a bit skeptical because, if all of this really worked (and I mean over a long time and scaling to meet a range of business requirements), even if it's not how I personally want to write code, shouldn't we be seeing a ton of 1 person startups? I see Bay area startups pushing 996 and requiring living in the Bay are…

I'm a 1-person startup doing pretty well. I got laid off in the first half of 2025 and decided to use my severance to see if I could go full-time with my side project. Over the last six months I've gone from zero to about $200k in ARR, and 75% of that was in the last three months. My average customer is paying about $250 / month. I have zero help, I do everything myself: coding, design, marketing, sales, etc. The pro…

What a great future of the world. The business dream. Companies with 1 employee.

Re: The creator of Claude Code's Claude setup

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Post by dormento »

llmslave2 wrote: post #28

Couple things stand out to me: 1) everyone on the team uses Claude code differently. 2) Claude Code has been around for almost a year and is being built by an entire team, yet doesn't seem to have benefited from this approach. The program is becoming buggier and less reliable over time, and development speed seems indistinguishable from anything else. 3) Everything this person says should be taken with a massive grai…

> The program is becoming buggier and less reliable over time

You know, this bugs me out. Claude code, macOS, Windows... they're all becoming buggy, filled with papercuts everywhere... and this coincided with layoffs + mass adoption of LLM coding tools and services.

Re: The creator of Claude Code's Claude setup

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Post by tabs_or_spaces »

hnroo99 wrote: post #80
aaronbrethorst wrote: post #17

He did a follow up with someone on Reddit and the answers were posted here: https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeAI/comments/1q2c0ne/comment/n... It offers a lot more context and I found it more helpful than the original twitter thread

50-100 PRs a week to me is insane. I'm a little skeptical and wonder how large/impactful they are. I use AI a lot and have seen significant productivity gains but not at that level lol.

Most likely * The rest of the team also reviews * If you're the founder, chances are that people will just accept reviews without reading much and give you priority in reviews

So I can see this happening in a practical sense.

Re: The creator of Claude Code's Claude setup

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Post by ecb_penguin »

CuriouslyC wrote: post #307
ecb_penguin wrote: post #297

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A lot of orgs are bad about giving credit to employees for productivity, what's the point of working 4x harder if it'll just result in a few % point difference in yearly raise, and you're still going to have to job hop to get a respectable pay bump? Might as well work less and spend time polishing your resume/side projects to make yourself as employable as possible. This is 100% the fault of poor incentives on the pa…

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Re: The creator of Claude Code's Claude setup

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Post by sumedh »

copperx wrote: post #104

I'm afraid to ask, but because I've been very happy with Codex 5.2 CLI and I can't imagine Claude Code doing better, why is it Claude so loved around here? Sure, I can spend $20 and figure it out, but I already pay $40/mo for two ChatGPT subs and that's enough to get me through a month. Should I spend $20 to see for myself?

Its faster and the coding models before 5.2 for me did not work at all. Claude models have been reliable since 3.5

Re: The creator of Claude Code's Claude setup

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Post by HarHarVeryFunny »

nbates80 wrote: post #406
HarHarVeryFunny wrote: post #353

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I suppose he may have a list of feature requests and bug reports to work on, but it does seem a bit odd from a human perspective to want to work on 5 or more things literally in parallel, unless they are all so simple that there is no cognitive load and context switching required to mentally juggle them. Washing dishes in parallel with laundry and cleaning is of course easily possible, but precisely because there is…

Same though here. I use Claude opus via api billing for tasks not that hard to implement but for which CC takes much less time than I would. However: * a small PR costs 5-16 usd (I’ve been monitoring this for the past two days). Management is already pushing for us to use Cursor or a new tool called Augment Cod. * I can submit 4 to 5 PRs in a day * the bottleneck becomes: - writing clear instructions and making the r…

I noticed yesterday that there were 5K+ issues filed against Claude Code on github (but down to 4.8K today!), so it may well be that this is what Cherny is churning through.

https://github.com/anthropics/claude-code/issues

If you read though a few pages of these issues, it doesn't seem to reflect too well on the quality of the code (self-written by Claude Code), so it seems the furious pace of development/bug fixing maybe shouldn't necessarily be taken as being the pace of generating production quality code. Claude Code is of course very useful, so people are very forgiving about issues, but I can't imagine most corporate software being very well regarded if the quality was such that it had 5K issues reported against it!

Re: The creator of Claude Code's Claude setup

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Post by senordevnyc »

heraldgeezer wrote: post #412
senordevnyc wrote: post #349

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I'm a 1-person startup doing pretty well. I got laid off in the first half of 2025 and decided to use my severance to see if I could go full-time with my side project. Over the last six months I've gone from zero to about $200k in ARR, and 75% of that was in the last three months. My average customer is paying about $250 / month. I have zero help, I do everything myself: coding, design, marketing, sales, etc. The pro…

What a great future of the world. The business dream. Companies with 1 employee.

I can't tell if you're being sarcastic, but yeah, this is my dream. I've had employees and contractors before, and I'd like to avoid the headaches and stress of being responsible for someone else's income. And then if shit goes sideways and you have to lay them off, you're a monster. Easier just to not hire anyone in the first place.

Re: The creator of Claude Code's Claude setup

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Post by disgruntledphd2 »

lostmsu wrote: post #289
disgruntledphd2 wrote: post #237

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> The first billion-dollar solopreneur likely is going to happen at some point I'm pretty sure that this has already happened, see: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plenty_of_Fish Not quite 1bn (but 575mn in 2015 dollars) and mostly done by one person.

He began hiring in 2018. Also, "Plenty of Fish uses a Microsoft-based platform for itself, including IIS, ASP.NET, and Microsoft SQL".

> He began hiring in 2018.

2008 I think (from the wikipedia article). I met my now wife on the platform in 2013. I do think it counts, and it's important to note that even pre-AI, software has incredible leverage for small teams/individual people.

Re: The creator of Claude Code's Claude setup

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Post by qn9n »

behnamoh wrote: post #94
johnfn wrote: post #38

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The UI flickers rapidly in some cases when I use it in the VSCode terminal. When I first saw this when using Claude Code I imagined it was some vibe code bug that would be worked out quickly. But it's been like 9 months and still every day it has this behavior - to the point that it crashes VSCode! I can only imagine that no one at Anthropic uses VSCode because it really seems insane it's gone this long unfixed.

> The UI flickers rapidly in some cases It's the worst experience in tmux! They lectured us about how the roots of the problem go deep, but I don't have this issue with any other CLI agent tool like Codex.

I agree Codex has a much nicer interface however I find 90% of the time the output just isn't quite as effective as what Claude is generating.
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