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Re: The creator of Claude Code's Claude setup

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Post by quijoteuniv »

tmerr wrote: post #65

This is interesting to hear, but I don't understand how this workflow actually works. I don't need 10 parallel agents making 50-100 PRs a week, I need 1 agent that successfully solves the most important problem. I don't understand how you can generate requirements quicky enough to have 10 parallel agents chewing away at meaningful work. I don't understand how you can have any meaningful supervising role over 10 thing…

This is it! “I don't need 10 parallel agents making 50-100 PRs a week, I need 1 agent that successfully solves the most important problem.”

Re: The creator of Claude Code's Claude setup

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Post by stoneforger »

tmerr wrote: post #65

This is interesting to hear, but I don't understand how this workflow actually works. I don't need 10 parallel agents making 50-100 PRs a week, I need 1 agent that successfully solves the most important problem. I don't understand how you can generate requirements quicky enough to have 10 parallel agents chewing away at meaningful work. I don't understand how you can have any meaningful supervising role over 10 thing…

The captive audience is not you, it's people salivating at the train of thought where they can 100x productivity of whatever and push those features that will get paying customers so they can get bought from private equity and ride out on the sunset. This whole thing is existential dread on a global scale, driven by sociopaths and everyone is just unable to not bend over.

Re: The creator of Claude Code's Claude setup

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Post by ex-aws-dude »

tmerr wrote: post #65

This is interesting to hear, but I don't understand how this workflow actually works. I don't need 10 parallel agents making 50-100 PRs a week, I need 1 agent that successfully solves the most important problem. I don't understand how you can generate requirements quicky enough to have 10 parallel agents chewing away at meaningful work. I don't understand how you can have any meaningful supervising role over 10 thing…

Yeah I don’t understand these posts recently with people running 10 at once

Can someone give an example of what each of them would be doing?

Are they just really slow, is that the problem?

Re: The creator of Claude Code's Claude setup

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Post by weird-eye-issue »

breput wrote: post #64

This feels like the desperate, look at me! post, which is the exact opposite of Andrej Karpathy's recent tweet[0] about feeling left behind as a programmer, as covered on Hacker News[1]. I guess would want to see how sustainable this 5 parallel AI effort is, and are there demonstrably positive outcomes. There are plenty of "I one-shotted this" examples of something that already (mostly) existed, which are very impres…

I wonder what sort of problems you must have to get this upset about the creator of a particular software telling people how they personally use that software

Personally I keep open several tabs of CC but it's not often that more than one or two of them would be running at the same time. It's just to keep particular context around for different parts of the same application since it's quite big (I don't use CC for creating new projects). For example if I had it work on a feature and then I realized there was a bug or an adjustment in the same files that needed to be made then I can just go back to that tab hours or maybe even days later without digging through history

Re: The creator of Claude Code's Claude setup

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Post by weird-eye-issue »

buggymcbugfix wrote: post #62

> [I'm] the creator of Claude Code. but also > Claude Code works great out of the box, so I personally don't customize it much. Am I the only one to notice the irony of this juxtaposition?

For lots of software unless you really know what you are doing it's best to just leave the default settings alone and not dig too deep into what's not immediately intended to do. For my application lots of bug reports come from people using our advanced settings without reading any of the instructions at all and screwing it up

So in the case of him being the creator obviously he built it for his needs

Re: The creator of Claude Code's Claude setup

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Post by danso »

tmerr wrote: post #65

This is interesting to hear, but I don't understand how this workflow actually works. I don't need 10 parallel agents making 50-100 PRs a week, I need 1 agent that successfully solves the most important problem. I don't understand how you can generate requirements quicky enough to have 10 parallel agents chewing away at meaningful work. I don't understand how you can have any meaningful supervising role over 10 thing…

Yes thank you! I find I get more than enough done (and more than enough code to review) by prompting the agent step by step. I want to see what kind of projects are getting done with multiple async autonomous agents. Was hoping to find youtube videos of someone setting up a project for multiple agents so I could see the cadence of the human stepping in and making directions

Re: The creator of Claude Code's Claude setup

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Post by CraigJPerry »

tmerr wrote: post #65

This is interesting to hear, but I don't understand how this workflow actually works. I don't need 10 parallel agents making 50-100 PRs a week, I need 1 agent that successfully solves the most important problem. I don't understand how you can generate requirements quicky enough to have 10 parallel agents chewing away at meaningful work. I don't understand how you can have any meaningful supervising role over 10 thing…

>> I need 1 agent that successfully solves the most important problem

In most of these kinds of posts, that's still you. I don't believe i've come across a pro-faster-keyboard post yet that claims AGI. Despite the name, LLMs have no agency, it's still all on you.

Once you've defined the next most important problem, you have a smaller problem - translate those requirements into code which accurately meets them. That's the bit where these models can successfully take over. I think of them as a faster keyboard and i've not seen a reason to change my mind yet despite using them heavily.

Re: The creator of Claude Code's Claude setup

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Post by varun_chopra »

It would be very interesting to see the outputs of his operations. How productive is one of his agents? How long does it take to complete a task, and how often does it require steering?

I'm a bit of a skeptic. Claude Code is good, but I've had varied results during my usage. Even just 5 minutes ago, I asked CC to view the most recent commit diff using git show. Even when I provided the command, it was doing dumb shit like git show --stat and then running wc for some reason...

I've been working on something called postkit[1], which has required me to build incrementally on a codebase that started from nothing and has now grown quite a lot. As it's grown, Claude Code's performance has definitely dipped.

[1] https://github.com/varunchopra/postkit

Re: The creator of Claude Code's Claude setup

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Post by hnroo99 »

aaronbrethorst wrote: post #17

He did a follow up with someone on Reddit and the answers were posted here: https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeAI/comments/1q2c0ne/comment/n... It offers a lot more context and I found it more helpful than the original twitter thread

50-100 PRs a week to me is insane. I'm a little skeptical and wonder how large/impactful they are. I use AI a lot and have seen significant productivity gains but not at that level lol.
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