It's not that good, most developers are just really that subpar lol.
What makes Claude Code so damn good
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Re: What makes Claude Code so damn good
#92Claude Code is hilarious because often it'll say stuff that's basically "that's too hard, here's a bandaid fix" and implement it lol
Re: What makes Claude Code so damn good
#93I've literally built the entire MVP of my startup on Claude Code and now have paying customers. I've got an existential worry that I'm going to have a SEV incident that will trigger a house of falling cards, but until then I'm constantly leveraging Claude for fixing security vulnerabilities, implementing test-driven-development, and planning out the software architecture in accordance with my long-term product roadma…
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Re: What makes Claude Code so damn good
#94It shocks me when people say that LLMs don't make them more productive, because my experience has been the complete opposite, especially with Claude Code. Either I'm worse than then at programming, to the point that I find an LLM useful and they don't, or they don't know how to use LLMs for coding.
It can be more than one reason. First of all, keep in mind that research has shown that people generally overestimate the productivity gains of LLM coding assistance. Even when using a coding assistant makes them less productive, they feel like they are more productive. Second, yeah, experience matters, both with programming and LLM coding assistants. The better you are, the less helpful the coding assistant will be,…
> research has shown that people generally overestimate the productivity gains of LLM coding assistance.
I don’t think this research is fully baked. I don’t see a story in these results that aligns with my experience and makes me think “yeah, that actually is what I’m doing”. I get that at this point I’m supposed to go “the effect is so subtle that even I don’t notice it!” But experience tells me that’s not normally how this kind of thing works.
Perhaps we’re still figuring out how to describe the positive effects of these tools or what axes we should really be measuring on, but the idea that there’s some sort of placebo effect going on here doesn’t pass muster.
Re: What makes Claude Code so damn good
#95I've literally built the entire MVP of my startup on Claude Code and now have paying customers. I've got an existential worry that I'm going to have a SEV incident that will trigger a house of falling cards, but until then I'm constantly leveraging Claude for fixing security vulnerabilities, implementing test-driven-development, and planning out the software architecture in accordance with my long-term product roadma…
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#96I've literally built the entire MVP of my startup on Claude Code and now have paying customers. I've got an existential worry that I'm going to have a SEV incident that will trigger a house of falling cards, but until then I'm constantly leveraging Claude for fixing security vulnerabilities, implementing test-driven-development, and planning out the software architecture in accordance with my long-term product roadma…
Well, don't be shy, share what CC helped you build.
Re: What makes Claude Code so damn good
#97I've literally built the entire MVP of my startup on Claude Code and now have paying customers. I've got an existential worry that I'm going to have a SEV incident that will trigger a house of falling cards, but until then I'm constantly leveraging Claude for fixing security vulnerabilities, implementing test-driven-development, and planning out the software architecture in accordance with my long-term product roadma…
duh, I ordered Claude Code to simply transfer money monthly to my bank account and it does.
Re: What makes Claude Code so damn good
#98Unfortunately, Claude Code is not open source, but there are some tools to better figure out how it is working. If you are really interested in how it works, I strongly recommend looking at Claude Trace: https://github.com/badlogic/lemmy/tree/main/apps/claude-trac... It dumps out a JSON file as well as a very nicely formatted HTML file that shows you every single tool and all the prompts that were used for a session.
https://github.com/anthropics/claude-code
You can see the system prompts too.
It's all how the base model has been trained to break tasks into discrete steps and work through them patiently, with some robustness to failure cases.
Re: What makes Claude Code so damn good
#99I've literally built the entire MVP of my startup on Claude Code and now have paying customers. I've got an existential worry that I'm going to have a SEV incident that will trigger a house of falling cards, but until then I'm constantly leveraging Claude for fixing security vulnerabilities, implementing test-driven-development, and planning out the software architecture in accordance with my long-term product roadma…
> but until then I'm constantly leveraging Claude for fixing security vulnerabilities
That it authored in the first place?
Re: What makes Claude Code so damn good
#100I made insane progress with CC over last several weeks, but lately have noticed progress stalling. I’m in the middle of some refactoring/bug fixing/optimization but it’s constantly running into issues, making half baked changes, not able to fix regressions etc. Still trying to figure out how to make do a better job. Might have to break it into smaller chunks or something. Been pretty frustrating couple of weeks. If a…
> If anyone has pointers, I’m all ears!!
Give programming a try, you might like it.