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Re: The creator of Claude Code's Claude setup

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Post by MattGaiser »

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.

If you only have that one problem, that is a reasonable criticism, but you may have 10 different problems and want to focus on the important one while the smaller stuff is AIed away.

> I don't understand how you can generate requirements quicky enough to have 10 parallel agents chewing away at meaningful work.

I am generally happy with the assumptions it makes when given few requirements? In a lot of cases I just need a feature and the specifics are fairly open or very obvious given the context.

For example, I am adding MFA options to one project. As I already have MFA for another portal on it, I just told Claude to add MFA options for all users. Single sentence with no details. Result seems perfectly servicable, if in need of some CSS changes.

Re: The creator of Claude Code's Claude setup

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Post by gherkinnn »

stoneforger wrote: post #72
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.

Painfully true. A lot of YouTube on LLM coding tools has become just that. Make quick bucks, look it generated a dashboard of some sort (why is it always dashboards?) and a high polished story of someone vibing a copy of a successful Saas and selling it off for a million.

A shame really, for there are good resources for better making use of LLMs in coding.

Re: The creator of Claude Code's Claude setup

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Post by bizzleDawg »

I spent a whole day running 3x local CC sessions and about 7 Claude code web sessions over the day. This was the most heavy usage day ever for me, about 30 pull requests created and merged over 3 projects.

I got a lot done, but my brain was fried after that. Like wired but totally exhausted.

Has anyone else experienced this and did you find strategies to help (or find that it gets easier)?

Re: The creator of Claude Code's Claude setup

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Post by behnamoh »

johnfn wrote: post #38
nmfisher wrote: post #34

Earlier quoted context omitted.

(2) isn't my experience at all. It's not 100% bug free but it definitely seems more stable (and faster) than I when I first used it last year.

The UI flickers rapidly in some cases when I use it in the VSCode terminal. When I first saw this when using Claude Code I imagined it was some vibe code bug that would be worked out quickly. But it's been like 9 months and still every day it has this behavior - to the point that it crashes VSCode! I can only imagine that no one at Anthropic uses VSCode because it really seems insane it's gone this long unfixed.

> The UI flickers rapidly in some cases

It's the worst experience in tmux! They lectured us about how the roots of the problem go deep, but I don't have this issue with any other CLI agent tool like Codex.

Re: The creator of Claude Code's Claude setup

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Post by victorbjorklund »

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…

Depends on the project you are working on. Solo on a web app? You probably have 100s of small things to fix. Some more padding there, add a small new feature here, etc.

Re: The creator of Claude Code's Claude setup

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Post by TeodorDyakov »

CraigJPerry wrote: post #78
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…

Why do you assume AGI needs to have agency?

Re: The creator of Claude Code's Claude setup

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Post by prasoon2211 »

hnroo99 wrote: post #80
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.

iirc he (or his colleague) did mention somewhere on X that most of the PRs are small

Re: The creator of Claude Code's Claude setup

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Post by weird-eye-issue »

breput wrote: post #83
weird-eye-issue wrote: post #74

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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 cr…

> I assume "what sort of problems you must have" was directed at me. I don't really have any sort of personal problem with Boris' post, if what your inflammatory statement was implying. I also think it was a fairly good description of his workflow, technically speaking, but also glosses over the actual monetary costs of what he is doing, and also as noted above, doesn't really describe the actual outcomes other than…

The monetary costs are minimal. The $20 and $100 plans actually get you very far these days

Re: The creator of Claude Code's Claude setup

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Post by tuananh »

quijoteuniv wrote: post #71
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.”

maybe more like throw shits to the wall and see what sticks?
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