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My experience with Claude Code after two weeks of adventures

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Re: My experience with Claude Code after two weeks of adventures

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Post by rounce »

gilfoy wrote: post #83
imiric wrote: post #71

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's telling that you ask these details from a comment describing a negative experience, yet the top-most comment full of praises and hyperbole is accepted at face value. Let's either demand these things from both sides or from neither. Just because your experience matches one side, doesn't mean that experiences different from yours should require a higher degree of scrutiny. I actually think it's more productive to…

It’s telling that they didn’t specifically address it at the negative experience and you filled that in yourself

It was the comment they replied to. If it was a general critique of the state of discourse around agentic tools and Claude Code in particular why not make it a top level comment?

Re: My experience with Claude Code after two weeks of adventures

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Post by cpursley »

ants_everywhere wrote: post #89
_se wrote: post #44

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It's always POC apps in js or python, or very small libraries in other popular languages with good structure from the start. There are ways to make them somewhat better in other cases (automated testing/validation/linting being a big one), but for the type of thing that 95% of developers are doing day to day (working on a big, sprawling code base where none of those attributes apply), it's not close to being there. T…

> They're amazing. But the moment you try to do the more "serious" work with them, it falls apart rapidly. Sorry, but this is just not true. I'm using agents with a totally idiosyncratic code base of Haskell + Bazel + Flutter. It's a stack that is so quirky and niche that even Google hasn't been able to make it work well despite all their developer talent and years of SWEs pushing for things like Haskell support inte…

What do you mean “with agents”?

Re: My experience with Claude Code after two weeks of adventures

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Post by kobe_bryant »

iambateman wrote: post #7

Claude Code is hard to describe. It’s almost like I changed jobs when I started using it. I’ve been all-in with Claude as a workflow tool, but this is literally steroids. If you haven’t tried it, I can’t recommend it enough. It’s the first time it really does feel like working with a junior engineer to me.

in what sense, instead of doing your job which I assume you've been doing successfully for many years you now ask Claude to do it for you and then have to review it?

Re: My experience with Claude Code after two weeks of adventures

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Post by simonw »

dawnerd wrote: post #81
simonw wrote: post #70

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Right, which is why having a comprehensive test suite is such an enormous unlock for this class of technology. If your tests are good, Claude Code can run them and use them to check it hasn't broken any distant existing behavior.

Not always the case. It’ll just go and “fix” the tests to pass instead of fixing the core issue.

That used to happen a whole lot more. Recent Claudes (3.7, 4) are less likely to do that in my experience.

If they DO do that, it's on us to tell them to undo that and fix things properly.

Re: My experience with Claude Code after two weeks of adventures

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Post by ants_everywhere »

cpursley wrote: post #92
ants_everywhere wrote: post #89

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> They're amazing. But the moment you try to do the more "serious" work with them, it falls apart rapidly. Sorry, but this is just not true. I'm using agents with a totally idiosyncratic code base of Haskell + Bazel + Flutter. It's a stack that is so quirky and niche that even Google hasn't been able to make it work well despite all their developer talent and years of SWEs pushing for things like Haskell support inte…

What do you mean “with agents”?

I've been using mainly gemini-cli and am starting to play around with claude code.

Re: My experience with Claude Code after two weeks of adventures

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Post by quesera »

dontlaugh wrote: post #49
ToJans wrote: post #45

Whenever I'm rate limited (pro max plan), I stop developing. For anything but the smallest things I use claude code... And even then... For the bigger things, I ask it to propose to me a solution (when adding new features). It helps when you give proper guidance: do this, use that, avoid X, be concise, ask to refactor when needed. All in all, it's like a slightly autistic junior dev, so you need to be really explicit…

I still don’t get why I should want that. I’ve mentored and managed juniors. They’re usually a net negative in productivity until they are no longer juniors.

My current working theory is this:

People who enjoy mentoring juniors are generally satisfied with the ROI of iterating through LLM code generation.

People who find juniors sort-of-frustrating-but-part-of-the-job-sometimes have a higher denominator on that ROI calc, and ask themselves why they would keep banging their head against the LLM wall.

The first group is probably wiser and more efficient at multiplying their energies, in the long term.

I find myself in the second group. I run tests every couple months, but I'm still waiting for the models to have a higher R or a lower I. Any day now.

Re: My experience with Claude Code after two weeks of adventures

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Post by ipaddr »

What I wonder is how is the interview process now? Are they testing you with AI or without? Is leet code being asked with AI proving the answer?

Is there a bigger disconnect on how you are judged in an interview vs the job now?

How are the AI only developers handling this?

Re: My experience with Claude Code after two weeks of adventures

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Post by ct0 »

ipaddr wrote: post #98

What I wonder is how is the interview process now? Are they testing you with AI or without? Is leet code being asked with AI proving the answer? Is there a bigger disconnect on how you are judged in an interview vs the job now? How are the AI only developers handling this?

The projects you work on and the impact that they had. Hopefully.

Re: My experience with Claude Code after two weeks of adventures

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Post by QuantumGood »

libraryofbabel wrote: post #58
arealaccount wrote: post #12

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Weirdly enough I have the opposite experience where it will take several minutes to do something, then I go in and debug for a while because the app has become fubar, then finally realize it did the whole thing incorrectly and throw it all away. And I reach for Claude quite a bit because if it worked as well for me like everyone here says, that would be amazing. But at best it’ll get a bunch of boilerplate done after…

Sigh. As others have commented, over and over again in the last 6 months we've seen discussions on HN with the same basic variation of "Claude Code [or whatever] is amazing" with a reply along the lines of "It doesn't work for me, it just creates a bunch of slop in my codebase." I sympathize with both experiences and have had both. But I think we've reached the point where such posts (both positive and negative) are…

Agree. It keeps getting closer to "I've had a negative experience with the internet ..."
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