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Claude Code as a Daily Driver: Claude.md, Skills, Subagents, Plugins, and MCPs

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Re: Claude Code as a Daily Driver: Claude.md, Skills, Subagents, Plugins, and MCPs

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Post by themgt »

sandrello wrote: post #11

To me, this kind of talk exhibits the very cultish and con side of the whole genAI train. In a way, it does a poor job especially when the intent is positive about the technology, it sheds a bad look on it. Generally, and more so with paid products, one should expect to get something that is ready to be used, tuned by who's selling it at the best of their efforts. Instead, this is basically saying that the product is…

To me, this kind of talk exhibits the very cultish and con side of the whole genAI train ... Generally, and more so with paid products, one should expect to get something that is ready to be used

Right like I bought an AWS EC2 m6a.metal instance expecting to get something that is ready to be used. Now being told to recite arcane "commands" from the cloud computing holy book. They claim their supposedly groundbreaking hypertext protocol isn't even accessible to mere mortals using a $6000/month EC2, the blame is definitely on you, the user, for not setting up the tool in the right way.

This sysadmin cloud cult is basically saying that the EC2 product is actually not much more than an empty box, and that it is your responsibility to augment it with third-party servers and interpreters and application source texts that make it finally useful. And you better be carefully selecting the tools you install.

Re: Claude Code as a Daily Driver: Claude.md, Skills, Subagents, Plugins, and MCPs

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Post by SupLockDef »

netdevphoenix wrote: post #10

What happens when you have a codebase made with claude using this setup and claude is down for let's say 8 hours? Are you able to efficiently, smoothly and productively take over the codebase?

After 1 hour you asked the question, I am reading the replies and the conclusion is: no, they cannot.

Re: Claude Code as a Daily Driver: Claude.md, Skills, Subagents, Plugins, and MCPs

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Post by new_account_101 »

SupLockDef wrote: post #62
netdevphoenix wrote: post #10

What happens when you have a codebase made with claude using this setup and claude is down for let's say 8 hours? Are you able to efficiently, smoothly and productively take over the codebase?

After 1 hour you asked the question, I am reading the replies and the conclusion is: no, they cannot.

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Re: Claude Code as a Daily Driver: Claude.md, Skills, Subagents, Plugins, and MCPs

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Post by SupLockDef »

stavros wrote: post #17
netdevphoenix wrote: post #10

What happens when you have a codebase made with claude using this setup and claude is down for let's say 8 hours? Are you able to efficiently, smoothly and productively take over the codebase?

What happens when you have a codebase made with gcc for let's say 8 hours? Are you able to efficiently, smoothly and productively take over the assembly code?

GCC down? Did the AI rotten your brain that much?

How can you come up with such non sense.

Re: Claude Code as a Daily Driver: Claude.md, Skills, Subagents, Plugins, and MCPs

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Post by staszewski »

netdevphoenix wrote: post #10

What happens when you have a codebase made with claude using this setup and claude is down for let's say 8 hours? Are you able to efficiently, smoothly and productively take over the codebase?

AI should enhance your skills. If it's down and your first though is to buy another sub from a different vendor this might be a skill issue. (I'm afraid every day that this will happen to me btw.)

Re: Claude Code as a Daily Driver: Claude.md, Skills, Subagents, Plugins, and MCPs

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Post by lionkor »

new_account_101 wrote: post #63
SupLockDef wrote: post #62

Earlier quoted context omitted.

After 1 hour you asked the question, I am reading the replies and the conclusion is: no, they cannot.

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Which nobody is doing, especially not people who vibe code products. Saying "just prepare for it" as an answer to "what do you do if", is not really enough when that "prepare for it" is very expensive (time, tokens, effort etc.).

For someone to do this, they would have to think for themselves, which I've also not seen much of in the vibe-coding space.

Re: Claude Code as a Daily Driver: Claude.md, Skills, Subagents, Plugins, and MCPs

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Post by _heimdall »

netdevphoenix wrote: post #10

What happens when you have a codebase made with claude using this setup and claude is down for let's say 8 hours? Are you able to efficiently, smoothly and productively take over the codebase?

I assume it will be similar to when a person is out sick or on vacation. Another person on the team likely could take over the work for a day, but realistically it just sits until they're is back.

Re: Claude Code as a Daily Driver: Claude.md, Skills, Subagents, Plugins, and MCPs

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Post by jghn »

new_account_101 wrote: post #59
thedeadp12t wrote: post #38

In the recent weeks, I think the harness/model came to a point that you can just ask it to do stuff and it just does. You can use plan mode, you can also use superpowers, or whatever other skill, but given that you'll review something anyway, why not work directly with code instead of silly amounts of md files?

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Because it might not have done what I wanted it to do. Also, just as with normal code review, I’m not just looking at the code but the final product. Maybe I realize after that I asked it to do something that was wrong?

Re: Claude Code as a Daily Driver: Claude.md, Skills, Subagents, Plugins, and MCPs

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Post by lionkor »

sourcecodeplz wrote: post #50
netdevphoenix wrote: post #10

What happens when you have a codebase made with claude using this setup and claude is down for let's say 8 hours? Are you able to efficiently, smoothly and productively take over the codebase?

Claude Code CLI is just a software package, if Anthropic API is down you could always connect Deepseek/other provider API to Claude Code CLI...

The point is that, with a sufficiently complex setup (with skills, MCPs, prompts, etc.) the difference in AI models will impact the quality of work. You might not care now, but you might care when you have 2 million lines of code and zero idea whats going on.

The point is vendor lock-in. The vibe coding community has reinvented vendor lock-in and is bound to repeat every mistake associated with it.

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