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One of the most helpful usages of CC so far is when I simply ask: "Are there any bugs in the current diff" It analyzes the changes very thoroughly, often finds very subtle bugs that would cost hours of time/deployments down the line, and points out a bunch of things to think through for correctness.
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Claude will point you in the right neighborhood but to the wrong house. So if you're completely ignorant that's cool. But recognize that its probably wrong and only a starting point. Hell, I spent 3 hours "arguing" with Claude the other day in a new domain because my intuition told me something was true. I brought out all the technical reason why it was fine but Claude kept skirting around it saying the code change w…
> After spending extra time researching it I found out there was a technical term for it and when I brought that up Claude finally admitted defeat. It was being a persistent little fucker before then. Whenever I feel like I need to write "Why aren't you listening to me?!" I know it's time for a walk and a change in strategy. It's also a good indicator that I'm changing too much at once and that my requirements are to…
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> An LLM will never have the context you need to solve all problems. How often do you need more than 10 million tokens to answer your query?
I exhaust the 1 million context windows on multiple models multiple times per day. I haven't used the Llama 4 10 million context window so I don't know how it performs in practice compared to the major non-open-source offerings that have smaller context windows. But there is an induced demand effect where as the context window increases it opens up more possibilities, and those possibilities can get bottlenecked on r…
Maybe models would get better in picking up relevant information from large context, but AFAIK it is not the case today.
Isn’t Opus better? Whenever I run out of Opus tokens and get kicked down to Sonnet it’s quite a shock sometimes. But man I’m at the perfect stage in my career for these tools. I know a lot, I understand a lot, I have a lot of great ideas-but I’m getting kinda tired of hammering out code all day long. Now with Claude I am just busting ass executing in all these ideas and tests and fixes-never going back!
Haha, I think I recognize that. I’m just worried my actual skills will athrophy while I use Claude Code like I’m a manager on steroids.
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For me it was like this for like a year (using Cline + Sonnet & Gemini) until Claude Code came out and until I learned how to keep context real clean. The key breakthrough was treating AI as an architect/implementer rather than a code generator. Most recently I ask first CC to create a design document for what we are going to do. He has instructions to look into the relevant parts of the code and docs to reference th…
For me it's the opposite. As long as I ask for small tasks, or error checking, it can help. But I'd rather think of the overall design myself because I tend to figure out corner cases or superlinear complexities much better. I develop better mental models than the NNs. That's somewhat of a relief. Also the longer the conversation goes, the less effective it gets. (saturated context window?)
> Also the longer the conversation goes, the less effective it gets. (saturated context window?)
Yes, this is exactly why I said the breakthrough came for me when I learned how to keep the context clean. That means multiple times in the process I ask the model to put the relevant parts of our discussion into an MD document, I may review and edit it and I reset the context with /clear. Then I have him read just the relevant things from MD docs and we continue.
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For me it was like this for like a year (using Cline + Sonnet & Gemini) until Claude Code came out and until I learned how to keep context real clean. The key breakthrough was treating AI as an architect/implementer rather than a code generator. Most recently I ask first CC to create a design document for what we are going to do. He has instructions to look into the relevant parts of the code and docs to reference th…
Same here. A small variation: I explicitly use website to manage what context it gets to see.
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> it's not clear if the value actually exists here. Having spent a couple of weeks on Claude Code recently, I arrived to the conclusion that the net value for me from agentic AI is actually negative. I will give it another run in 6-8 months though.
Agreed, daily Cursor user. Just got out of a 15m huddle with someone trying to understand what they were doing in a PR before they admitted Claude generated everything and it worked but they weren't sure why... Ended up ripping about 200 LoC out because what Claude "fixed" wasn't even broken. So never let it generate code, but the autocomplete is absolutely killer. If you understand how to code in 2+ languages you ca…
How does anyone send these models that much context without it tripping over itself? I can't get anywhere near that much before it starts losing track of instruction.
I’ve been having decent luck telling it to keep track of itself in a .plan file, not foolproof, of course, but it has some ability to “preserve context” between contexts. Right now I’m experimenting with using separate .plan files for tracking key instructions across domains like architecture and feature decisions.
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> Just got out of a 15m huddle with someone trying to understand what they were doing in a PR before they admitted Claude generated everything and it worked but they weren't sure why... But .. that's not the AI's fault. If people submit any PRs (including AI-generated or AI-assisted) without completely understanding them, I'd treat is as serious breach of professional conduct and (gently, for first-timers) stress tha…
If you have to review what the LLM wrote then there is no productivity gain. Leadership asks for vibe coding
Stating something with confidence does not make it automatically true.