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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

#72

Post by lionkor »

_heimdall wrote: post #67
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.

So work stops until Claude is back? What if Claude comes back and costs 10x the amount? The answer is obviously that you'll "bend over" and pay, because the AI vendor who convinced you that Claude is so great owns you, your codebase, and by extension your company now.

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

#74

Post by ordersofmag »

lionkor wrote: post #72
_heimdall wrote: post #67

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

So work stops until Claude is back? What if Claude comes back and costs 10x the amount? The answer is obviously that you'll "bend over" and pay, because the AI vendor who convinced you that Claude is so great owns you, your codebase, and by extension your company now.

Or you point your Claude code at a different LLM provider. It's not complicated and there are lots of vendors (and in the open-weights space multiple vendors serving the same models competing on price). Sure DeepSeek 4 isn't quite Opus at the moment. But it's plenty good to do the work. We've got different competing front-end tools and different competing back-end providers. No one 'owns' your company. Maybe that will change as the market evolves and one of the frontier tools become so much better than one vendor will own the market. But that's not where we are now.

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

#75

Post by ramblerman »

lionkor wrote: post #72
_heimdall wrote: post #67

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

So work stops until Claude is back? What if Claude comes back and costs 10x the amount? The answer is obviously that you'll "bend over" and pay, because the AI vendor who convinced you that Claude is so great owns you, your codebase, and by extension your company now.

Or simple economics kicks in, price/demand all that.

If hand coding pays better there will be plenty who can still do that.

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

#76

Post by xtiansimon »

I’m getting into the agentic coding (I know, late to the party, and that’s been a good spot for my experience and use case), so I’m reading with interest. The first tip: “give Claude a way to verify its own work”.

So what’s the recommendation for Claude to have a feedback loop?

Because it’s not what follows in the article: _“Explore, then plan, then code.”, “Use plan mode…”, “Reference, do not describe.”_

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

#77

Post by daniel_iversen »

crassus_ed wrote: post #69

"Claude Code as a Daily Driver", which was also used to generate this article.. Also, how is "Explore, then plan, then code" considered "beyond the basics"?

I’ve used Claude for a couple of months now and didn’t know about the specific “plan mode” you can put it into!

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

#78

Post by downsplat »

I've been using Claude to work on a medium-sized (100+kLoc) codebase, and it's a great productivity multiplier. Putting hours into creating a good AGENTS file is more improved results a lot. I find that over time it picks up the codebase quite well. Tedious tasks that would take a day are now a matter of a few prompts.

Still... I'm not ready to give it more autonomy. Even as it gets high-level things quite well, I still look at the code, give feedback, and have 3-4 rounds of tweaks until I'm happy with it, and also happy that I stil feel I have a good handle on the codebase.

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

#79

Post by sebmellen »

xtiansimon wrote: post #76

I’m getting into the agentic coding (I know, late to the party, and that’s been a good spot for my experience and use case), so I’m reading with interest. The first tip: “give Claude a way to verify its own work”. So what’s the recommendation for Claude to have a feedback loop? Because it’s not what follows in the article: _“Explore, then plan, then code.”, “Use plan mode…”, “Reference, do not describe.”_

In my experience, the biggest benefit comes from having good quality integration and unit tests that are easy for the agent to run on its own to verify its work against.
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