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Re: 6 weeks of Claude Code

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Post by CompoundEyes »

polishdude20 wrote: post #192

Does anyone have advice on how to hire developers who can utilize AI coding tools effectively?

My mom was an English teacher and an electronics tech later in her career. I explained to her how LLMs are requiring a lot of technical writing and documentation up front and devs that haven’t tried that approach or hate that can be quick to dismiss when the output is bad. Her reply, “Oh so the humanities do matter!’ Hire juniors with a left brain right brain mix.

We have to be careful not to anthropomorphize them but LLMs absolutely respond to nuanced word choice and definition of behavior that align with psychology (humanities). How to judge that in an interview? Maybe a “Write instructions for a robot to make a peanut butter and jelly sandwich” exercise. Make them type it. Prospects who did robotics club have an edge?

Can they touch type? I’ve seen experienced devs that chicken peck its painful. What happens when they have to write a stream of prompts, abort, and rephrase rapidly? Schools aren’t mandating typing and I see an increase (in my own home! I tried…) of feral child invented systems like caps lock on/off instead of shift with weird cross keyboard overhand reaches.

Re: 6 weeks of Claude Code

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Post by actinium226 »

justlikereddit wrote: post #128
risyachka wrote: post #109

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Its all great until >> I thought I would see a pretty drastic change in terms of Pull Requests, Commits and Line of Code merged in the last 6 weeks. I don’t think that holds water though The chart basically shows same output with claude than before. Which kinda represents what I felt when using LLMs. You "feel" more productive and you definitely feel "better" because you don't do the work now, you babysit the model a…

I've been exploring vibe coding lately and by far the biggest benefit is the lack of mental strain. You don't have to try to remember your code as a conceptual whole, what your technical implementation of the next hour of code was going to be like at the same time as a stubborn bug is taunting you. You just ask Mr smartybots and it deliver anything between proofreading and documentation and whatnot, with some minor f…

But the mental strain is how you build skills and get better at your job over time. If it's too much mental strain, maybe your code's architecture or implementation can be improved.

A lot of this sounds like "this bot does my homework for me, and now I get good grades and don't have to study so hard!"

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Post by globular-toast »

yubblegum wrote: post #292
giancarlostoro wrote: post #169

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If you are a Senior Developer, who is comfortable giving a Junior tips, and then guiding them to fixing them (or just stepping in for a brief moment and writing where they missed something) this is for you. I'm hearing from Senior devs all over thought, that Junior developers are just garbage at it. They product slow, insecure, or just outright awful code with it, and then they PR the code they don't even understand.…

> I'm hearing from Senior devs all over thought, that Junior developers are just garbage at it. They product slow, insecure, or just outright awful code with it, and then they PR the code they don't even understand. If this is the case then we better have full AI generated code within the next 10 years since those "juniors" will remain atrophied juniors forever and the old timers will be checking in with the big cloc…

You can't atrophy if you never grew in the first place. The juniors will be stunted. It's the seniors who will become atrophied.

As for whether it's a mistake, isn't that just the way of things these days? The current world is about extracting as much as you can while you're still here. Look around. Nobody is building for the future. There are a few niche groups that talk about it, but nobody is really doing it. It's just take, take, take.

This just seems more of the same, but we're speeding up. We started by extracting fossil fuels deposited over millions of years, then extracting resources and technology from civilisations deposited over millennia, then from the Victorians deposited only a century or two ago, and now it's software deposited over only mere decades. Someone is going to be left holding the bag, we just hope it's not us. Meanwhile most of the population aren't even thinking about it, and most of the fraction that do think are dreaming that technology is going to save us before it's payback time.

Re: 6 weeks of Claude Code

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Post by ehnto »

bravesoul2 wrote: post #394
arrowsmith wrote: post #101

The real power of Claude Code comes when you realise it can do far more than just write code. It can, in fact, control your entire computer. If there's a CLI tool, Claude can run it. If there's not a CLI tool... ask Claude anyway, you might be surprised. E.g. I've used Claude to crop and resize images, rip MP3s from YouTube videos, trim silence from audio files, the list goes on. It saves me incredible amounts of tim…

I got it to diagnose why my Linux PC was crashing. It did a lot of journalctl grepping on my behalf and was glad for its help. Think it may have helped fix it but will see.

I was having a kernel panic on boot, I would work around it by loading the previous kernel. Turns out I had just ran out of space on my boot partition, but in my initial attemps to debug and fix I had gotten into a broken package state.

I handed it the reigns just out of morbid curiosity, and because I couldn't be bothered continuing for the night, but to my surprise (and with my guidance step by step) it did figure it all out. It found unused kernels, after uninstalling them didn't remove them, it deleted them with rm. It then helped resolve the broken package state and eventually I was back in a clean working state.

Importantly though, it did not know it hadn't actually cleaned up the boot partition initially. I had to insist that it had not in fact just freed up space, and that it would need to remove them.

Re: 6 weeks of Claude Code

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Post by actinium226 »

elAhmo wrote: post #214
skydhash wrote: post #131

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> If there's a CLI tool, Claude can run it. If there's not a CLI tool... ask Claude anyway, you might be surprised. No Claude Code needed for that! Just hang around r/unixporn and you'll collect enough scripts and tips to realize that mainstream OS have pushed computers from a useful tool to a consumerism toy.

Simple task of unzipping with tar is cryptic enough that collecting unix scripts from random people is definitely something people don't want to do in 2025.

It's cryptic until you sit down to learn it

tar xzvf -> "tar eXtract Zipped Verbose File "

tar czvf -> "tar Compress Zipped Verbose File "

So it's either x or c if you want to unzip a tar file or create one

Add z if the thing you're uncompressing ends in .gz, or if you want the thing you're creating to be compressed.

v is just if you want the filenames to be printed to stdout as they're extracted or imported

f tells it to read from or output to a file, as opposed to reading from stdin or output to stdout

Then your provide the filename to read from/export to, and if you're exporting you then provide the file list.

Not that hard.

Re: 6 weeks of Claude Code

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Post by exe34 »

shortrounddev2 wrote: post #421
exe34 wrote: post #403

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I think after all the goalpost moving, we have to ask - why the bitflip does it matter what we call it? Some people are getting a lot of work done using LLMs. Some of us are using it on occasion to handle thing we don't understand deeply but can trivially verify. Some of us are using it out of laziness because it helps with boilerplate. Everyone who is using it outside of occasional tests is doing it because they fin…

If my boss came to me and said "hey we're going to start vibe coding everything st work from now on. You can manually edit code but claude code needs to be your primary driver from now on" I would quit and find a new career. I enjoy coding. I like solving puzzles using the specifics of a language syntax. I write libraries and APIs and I put a great deal of effort into making sure the interface is usable by a human be…

By the time it works flawlessly, it won't be your career anymore, it'll be the product manager's. They will describe what they want and the AI will produce it. You won't be told to "use Claude all the time".

I personally hate coding, but it's a means to an end, and I care about the end. I'm also paranoid about code I don't understand, so I only rarely use AI and even then it's either for things I understand 100% or things that don't matter. But it would be silly to claim they don't produce working code, no matter what we want to call it.

Re: 6 weeks of Claude Code

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Post by actinium226 »

SparkyMcUnicorn wrote: post #289
dv_dt wrote: post #228

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Script? I havent used anything more complex than "tar xzf file" in a decade

Remembering one thing is easy, remembering all the things is not. With an agentic CLI I don't need to remember anything, other than if it looks safe or not.

But how will you remember to use the agentic CLI?

Re: 6 weeks of Claude Code

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Post by ehnto »

buffer1337 wrote: post #84

I've been using Claude code 12-16 hours a day since I first got it running two weeks ago. Here's the tips I've discovered: 1. Immediately change to sonnet (the cli defaults to opus for max users). I tested coding with opus extensively and it never matches the quality of sonnet. 2. Compacting often ends progress - it's difficult to get back to the same quality of code after compacting. 3. First prompt is very importan…

Sometimes it's a bit too eager to mess around inside the containers, like when I ask it to understand some code sometimes it won't stop trying to run it inside the container in a myriad of ways that won't work.

It once did a container exec that piped the target file into the projects cli command runner, which did nothing, but gives you an example of the string of wacky ways it will insist on running code instead of just reading it.

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Post by itsalotoffun »

pmg101 wrote: post #450
itsalotoffun wrote: post #423

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n=1 but my experience is the ratio of what'd I'd class "senior" devs (per the example given) to everyone else is comfortably 10:1.

Do you mean that for every 11 devs, 10 of them are "senior" as per the example? Or that only 1 is?

1 senior to 10 everyone else. Sorry that wasn't super clear.

Re: 6 weeks of Claude Code

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Post by actinium226 »

I see a lot of comments here gushing about CC but I've used and I really don't get it. I find that it takes me just as long to explain to it what I need done as it takes to just do the work myself.
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