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Claude Code Is My Computer

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Re: Claude Code Is My Computer

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It took 50+ prompts to get it to this state. I’d say that counts as putting enough care into it to be my voice.

Readers would have been better served with the prompts you wrote than the AI generated output.

All ~50 prompts would take you have an hour to read and wouldn’t bring across my point nearly as good.

Re: Claude Code Is My Computer

#52

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It took 50+ prompts to get it to this state. I’d say that counts as putting enough care into it to be my voice.

Readers would have been better served with the prompts you wrote than the AI generated output.

I don't think that's true. What matters to me is the human editorial touch: I don't want to wade through 50 prompts and responses, I want a human author to have resolved that process into a final output that they think is worth sharing with me.

Re: Claude Code Is My Computer

#53
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> Automate Content: Like this very post. I use Wispr Flow to talk with Claude, explain the topic and tell it to read my past blog posts to write in my style. This post is generated. Meaning, it wasn't written with the same aim towards truth and relevance that we assume writers have. It looks like writing, and fools readers into thinking it's writing. But it's just text. What's the purpose in reading it as opposed to…

If using LLMs for writing, you should provide your prompts up front so we can see your actual thinking, and then ignore the rest of the content. Or better yet, synthesize those prompts in a writing style that we like more!

Not the prompts exactly, but these commits should give you a good idea about what they were: https://github.com/steipete/steipete.me/pull/106/commits

Re: Claude Code Is My Computer

#54

> Automate Content: Like this very post. I use Wispr Flow to talk with Claude, explain the topic and tell it to read my past blog posts to write in my style. This post is generated. Meaning, it wasn't written with the same aim towards truth and relevance that we assume writers have. It looks like writing, and fools readers into thinking it's writing. But it's just text. What's the purpose in reading it as opposed to…

So your argument is that only text written by hand can convey useful information? If it was dictated or transcribed, it's somehow lesser and unworthy of attention?

So you're suggesting that using an LLM is the same as transcribing? Then I guess Dragon Naturally Speaking was way ahead of the curve.

Re: Claude Code Is My Computer

#55

>> “commit everything in logical chunks” and Claude handles the entire flow—staging changes, writing meaningful commit messages, pushing, opening PRs, watching CI, and fixing any CI failures. When builds break, it analyzes the errors and patches them automatically. It’s also extremely good at resolving merge conflicts. Is this marketing hype for the post or does it actually do all this? I know it's relatively new, bu…

All those “AI works great for me” blogs and HN comments are suspiciously light on details. They could just be marketing hype for all we know. I for one don't trust them one bit.

Re: Claude Code Is My Computer

#57

That’s not a “calculated risk.” It’s just a risk. I don’t see how the OP is paying enough attention to know that terrible things are not happening. Sure, he can roll back, but that only works well for obvious problems that he catches in time. I haven’t heard that it is inherently dangerous to use popular tools of the normal sort without carefully scrutinizes every output. But there are many horror stories about the u…

Backups should solve most of the issues. I've had some reservations, but if you think a bit about it, not that much can happen - if you have good backups! On macOS, your passwords are in the keychain and not accessible without putting your thumb on TouchID. So it cannot transfer all your money offshore, or order a thousand shoes.

Do make sure your AWS/fly/etc accounts have budget caps (a wise idea anyway).

Re: Claude Code Is My Computer

#58

I wanted to try Claude code but it's 200$ per month which is INR17000 per month. This was expensive even when I had a job. Now it feels like all this power is accessible only to the rich. When Geoffrey suggested [1] AI will increase wealth for rich he was not wrong. https://www.indiatoday.in/technology/news/story/ai-will-incr...

Yeah, $200/month makes sense if you're a contractor passing the cost to your client, but if you're a hobbyist or employee it's a massive chunk of money.

Re: Claude Code Is My Computer

#59

lmao, I watched Claude write a bash file that: rm rf'd my HOME file. I'm good on all of this for a while.

Saw a good vibe coding meme along the lines of the agent after having trouble with the db wanting to "start from scratch" drop all tables lol

To be fair, that's also something I do intentionally and hopefully you're not developing in production, so is that really unreasonable behaviour?

Re: Claude Code Is My Computer

#60

I wanted to try Claude code but it's 200$ per month which is INR17000 per month. This was expensive even when I had a job. Now it feels like all this power is accessible only to the rich. When Geoffrey suggested [1] AI will increase wealth for rich he was not wrong. https://www.indiatoday.in/technology/news/story/ai-will-incr...

the $100/mo plan is more than enough i never get fully limited
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