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Claude Code Is My Computer

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Re: Claude Code Is My Computer

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Post by simonw »

MichaelZuo wrote: post #65
simonw wrote: post #49

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What matters to me is that a human writer has verified the content and is ready to stake their reputation on it being worth my time to read. It sounds like that's what you've done here, in which case I don't feel that you are wasting my time by having me read something that you haven't even reviewed yourself.

It does seem weird for someone to expect others to spend their time fully reading something… when they also have access to the same tools and can just tell it to summarize it back.

That would be true for writing where the author typed a sentence and the LLM expanded it to multiple paragraphs.

That is not what happened here: the author provided a lot more input than the finished article, and used the LLM to help crunch that down to as good a version as possible of the points there wanted to make.

Re: Claude Code Is My Computer

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Post by steipete »

tempodox wrote: post #47

Taking the title literally, it also means that computer is not yours anymore, it's a rented appliance. And only works for you as long as you pay the rent. No doubt a wet dream come true for those who rent it out to you.

Good thing we don't have to take everything literal in life and can appreciate a little exaggeration so people get curious :)

Re: Claude Code Is My Computer

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Post by deergomoo »

steipete wrote: post #48
deergomoo wrote: post #39

> 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. If you had any respect for your readers you’d put this as a disclaimer right at the top. I can’t be bothered to read anything you can’t be bothered to write.

I worked about 4h on this and 50+ prompts. See the GitHub PR. In the end that’s not much different to iterating with a direct editor.

Then why not just write it? You mention not having to write Markdown in the post, but c’mon dude, you’re a software developer.

Presumably the fact you have a personal blog means you must enjoy some aspect of writing, so what’s the end game here?

I mean you do you I guess—it’s your blog and I’m nobody. But if I’m reading someone’s thoughts I want _their_ words, not something filtered through a machine.

Re: Claude Code Is My Computer

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Post by ljm »

I don't like the externalities of something like this, or in fact a lot of projects riding on AI hype.

The carbon footprint of typing a post out by hand, for example, is negligible in comparison to the carbon footprint of a massive datacentre running hundreds of prompts for many minutes to perform otherwise trivial tasks. A laptop that is already quite powerful is barely using any of its own compute in favour of requiring an utterly enormous amount somewhere else in the world.

It just feels like a colossal waste especially when you're going back to the same LLM many times to refine or correct its output.

Re: Claude Code Is My Computer

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Post by layer8 »

steipete wrote: post #51
nathanasmith wrote: post #46

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

But it would provide a better illustration of how you’re actually working.

Re: Claude Code Is My Computer

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Post by simonw »

layer8 wrote: post #75
steipete wrote: post #51

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

But it would provide a better illustration of how you’re actually working.

If you're interested in seeing the process behind this piece of writing you can read through a lot of the details in the 71 commits that went into creating the story in the PR: https://github.com/steipete/steipete.me/pull/106/commits

Re: Claude Code Is My Computer

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Post by ignacioaal »

I've been using claude code with the max subscription and ran /model opus.

Haven't looked back since. This is about the same jump in productivity I had when switching from vscode to cursor and now to claude code with an agent.

It feels like managing a very intelligent junior dev that learns and adapts. I'm quite happy to read that more people are using it as this will only help claude code improve.

Re: Claude Code Is My Computer

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Post by tough »

quaintdev wrote: post #22

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...

You can use openai's codex, or any of the claude code clone's available on github.

At the end of the day all do the same. a cli tool that can call tools and use them as needed.

https://github.com/openai/codex http://aider.ai/

Re: Claude Code Is My Computer

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Post by bananapub »

steipete wrote: post #30
golly_ned wrote: post #21

> 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…

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.

so, are you vouching for this entire text, and are happy for us to treat it as if you wrote it?

so that if it has sloppy mistakes or doesn't reflect your thinking well, you do want others to trust your work less?

Re: Claude Code Is My Computer

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Post by rfoo »

simonw wrote: post #52
nathanasmith wrote: post #46

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

I think the correct benchmark is `len()`. Give me your prompts or your output, whichever is shorter.
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