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Re: The creator of Claude Code's Claude setup

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Post by 0x500x79 »

jen20 wrote: post #45
johnfn wrote: post #38

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

Are you sure it's _not_ VS Code at issue here? I haven't seen this in Ghostty.

This is a common problem and you can find reports of it all over X, including from some influencers. Even outside of VSCode.

Re: The creator of Claude Code's Claude setup

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Post by Maxion »

baalimago wrote: post #18

I'm a bit jealous. I would like to experiment with having a similar setup, but 10x Opus 4.5 running practically non stop must amount to a very high inference bill. Is it really worth the output? From experimentation, I need to coach the models quite closely in order to get enough value. Letting it loose only works when I've given very specific instructions. But I'm using Codex and Clai, perhaps Claude code is better.

I've tried running a number of claude's in paralell on a CRUD full stack JS app. Yes, it got features made faster, yes it definitely did not leave me enough time to acutally look at what they did, yes it definitely produced sub-par code.

At the moment with one claude + manually fixing crap it produces I am faster at solving "easier" features (Think add API endpoint, re-build API client, implement frontend logic for API endpoint + UI) faster than if I write it myself.

Things that are more logic dense, it tends to produce so many errors that it's faster to solve myself.

Re: The creator of Claude Code's Claude setup

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Post by cyberax »

nmfisher wrote: post #34
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…

(2) isn't my experience at all. It's not 100% bug free but it definitely seems more stable (and faster) than I when I first used it last year.

Claude Code is fairly simple. But Claude Desktop is a freaking mess, it loses chats when I switch tabs, it has no easy way to auto-extend the context, and it's just slow.

Re: The creator of Claude Code's Claude setup

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Post by Snakes3727 »

0x500x79 wrote: post #49
Snakes3727 wrote: post #46

Frankly Claude code is painfully slow. To the point I get frustrated. On large codebases I often find it taking 20+ minutes to do basic things like writing tests. Way too often people are like it takes 2 minutes for it to do a full pr. Yeah how big is the code base actually. I also have a coworker who is about 10x more then everyone else. Burning through credits yet he is one of the lowest performers.{closing in on a…

$1,000.00 of credits per-day?? $200,000 per year? Those are bonkers numbers for someone not performing at a high level (on-top of their salary). Do you know what they are doing?

Yup. The way he works is all tasks he is issued in a sprint he just fires them through opus in parallel hoping to get a hit on Claude magically solving the ticket having them constantly be iterated on them. He doesnt even try using proper having plans be created.

Often time tickets get fleshed out or requirements change. He just throws everything out and reshoves it into Claude.

I weep for the planet.

Re: The creator of Claude Code's Claude setup

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Post by jauntywundrkind »

TheTaytay wrote: post #26

This was extremely useful to read for many reasons, but my favorite thing I learned is that you can “teleport” a task FROM the local Claude Code to Claude Code on the web by prepending your request with “&”. That makes it a “background” task, which I initially erroneously thought was a local background task. Turns out it sends the task and conversation history up to the web version. This allows you to do work in othe…

OpenCode is actually client server architecture. Typically one either runs the TUI or the web interface. I wonder if it would cope ok with running multiple interfaces at once?

Neovim has a decade old feature request for multiple clients to be able to connect to it. No traction alas. Always a great superpower to have, if you can hack it. https://github.com/neovim/neovim/issues/2161

Chrome DevToops Protocol added multiple client support maybe 5 years ago? It's super handy there because automation tools also use the same port. So you couldn't automate and debug at the same time!

That is a really tool ability, to move work between different executors. OpenCode is also super good at letting you open an old session & carry on, so you can switch between. I appreciate the mention; I love the mobile ambient aspect of how Claude Code can teleport this all!!

Re: The creator of Claude Code's Claude setup

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Post by Philpax »

johnfn wrote: post #38
nmfisher wrote: post #34

Earlier quoted context omitted.

(2) isn't my experience at all. It's not 100% bug free but it definitely seems more stable (and faster) than I when I first used it last year.

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 VSCode terminal seems buggy with complex TUI applications in my experience; I had to use the Gemini CLI in a separate terminal because it was brutally slow in the VSC terminal.

That being said, this isn't a huge issue for CC - you can just use the extension, which offers a similar experience.

Re: The creator of Claude Code's Claude setup

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Post by groby_b »

joshribakoff wrote: post #6
Aurornis wrote: post #5

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> (is this the case for Anthropic employees?) It would be funny if the company paying software engineers $500K or more along with gold-plated stock options was limiting how much they could use the software their company was developing.

Why is that funny? What company gives you unlimited resources? That doesn’t scale. Google employees can’t just demand a $10,000 workstation. It’s reasonable to assume they have some guardrails, for both financial and stability reasons. Who knows… if it’s unlimited now, will it stay that way forever? Probably unlimited in the same sense as unlimited pto.

If an employee has a business need for a $10k workstation, I'm fairly certain they'll get a $10k workstation.

Yes, accounting still happens. Guardrails exist. But quibbling over 2% of a SWEs salary if it's clear that the productivity increase will be significantly more than 2% would be... not a wise use of anybody's time.

Re: The creator of Claude Code's Claude setup

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Post by Aurornis »

joshribakoff wrote: post #6
Aurornis wrote: post #5

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> (is this the case for Anthropic employees?) It would be funny if the company paying software engineers $500K or more along with gold-plated stock options was limiting how much they could use the software their company was developing.

Why is that funny? What company gives you unlimited resources? That doesn’t scale. Google employees can’t just demand a $10,000 workstation. It’s reasonable to assume they have some guardrails, for both financial and stability reasons. Who knows… if it’s unlimited now, will it stay that way forever? Probably unlimited in the same sense as unlimited pto.

> Why is that funny? What company gives you unlimited resources?

Anthropic has raised tens of billions of dollars of funding.

Their number of employees is in the thousands. This isn't like Google.

Claude Code is what they're developing. The company is obviously going to encourage them to use it as much as possible.

Limiting how much the Claude Code lead can use Claude Code would be funny because their lead dev would have to stop mid-day and wait for his token quota window to reset before he can continue developing their flagship coding product. Not going to happen.

I'm strangely fascinated by the reaction in the comments, though. A lot of people here must have worked in oddly restrictive corporate environments to even think that a company like this would limit how much their own employees can use the company's own product to develop their own product.

Re: The creator of Claude Code's Claude setup

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Post by Aurornis »

perfmode wrote: post #14
Aurornis wrote: post #5

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> (is this the case for Anthropic employees?) It would be funny if the company paying software engineers $500K or more along with gold-plated stock options was limiting how much they could use the software their company was developing.

Tokens aren’t free.

When you work for the company supplying those tokens and you're working on the product that sells those tokens at scale, the company will let you use as many tokens as you want.
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