How Anthropic teams use Claude Code

But Claude seems a little dumber and is aggressive about "getting things done", often ignoring common sense or explicit instructions or design information.

If I tell it to make a test pass, it will sometimes change my database structure to avoid having to debug the test. At least twice it deleted protobufs from my project and replaced it with JSON because it struggled to immediately debug a proto issue.

Re: How Anthropic teams use Claude Code

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Post by [deleted] » Fri, Jul 25, 2025, 2:00 AM UTC

buggy6257 wrote: post #2

@dang looks like HN ate the leading “How” in the title.

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Re: How Anthropic teams use Claude Code

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Post by chubot » Fri, Jul 25, 2025, 2:01 AM UTC

I use Claude and like it, but this post has kind of a clunky and stilted style

So I guess the blog team also uses Claude

Re: How Anthropic teams use Claude Code

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Post by minimaxir » Fri, Jul 25, 2025, 2:03 AM UTC

A repeated trend is that Claude Code only gets 70-80% of the way, which is fine and something I wish was emphasized more by people pushing agents.

This bullet point is funny:

> Treat it like a slot machine

> Save your state before letting Claude work, let it run for 30 minutes, then either accept the result or start fresh rather than trying to wrestle with corrections. Starting over often has a higher success rate than trying to fix Claude's mistakes.

That's easy to say when the employee is not personally paying the massive amount of compute running Claude Code for a half-hour.

Re: How Anthropic teams use Claude Code

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Post by throwmeaway222 » Fri, Jul 25, 2025, 2:05 AM UTC

minimaxir wrote: post #7

A repeated trend is that Claude Code only gets 70-80% of the way, which is fine and something I wish was emphasized more by people pushing agents. This bullet point is funny: > Treat it like a slot machine > Save your state before letting Claude work, let it run for 30 minutes, then either accept the result or start fresh rather than trying to wrestle with corrections. Starting over often has a higher success rate th…

Thanks for the tip - we employees should run and re-run the code generation hundreds of times even if the changes are pretty good. That way, the brass will see a huge bill without many actual commits.

Sorry boss, it looks like we need to hire more software engineers since the AI route still isn't mathing.

Re: How Anthropic teams use Claude Code

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Post by mdaniel » Fri, Jul 25, 2025, 2:06 AM UTC

Oh, come on https://www.anthropic.com/news/how-anthropic-teams-use-claud... is not "for legal"

- Custom accessibility solution for family members

- The team created prototype "phone tree" systems to help team members connect with the right lawyer at Anthropic

- Team coordination tools

- Rapid prototyping for solution validation

So, not legal

Re: How Anthropic teams use Claude Code

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Post by mdaniel » Fri, Jul 25, 2025, 2:08 AM UTC

throwmeaway222 wrote: post #8

minimaxir wrote: post #7

A repeated trend is that Claude Code only gets 70-80% of the way, which is fine and something I wish was emphasized more by people pushing agents. This bullet point is funny: > Treat it like a slot machine > Save your state before letting Claude work, let it run for 30 minutes, then either accept the result or start fresh rather than trying to wrestle with corrections. Starting over often has a higher success rate th…

Thanks for the tip - we employees should run and re-run the code generation hundreds of times even if the changes are pretty good. That way, the brass will see a huge bill without many actual commits. Sorry boss, it looks like we need to hire more software engineers since the AI route still isn't mathing.

> we employees should run and re-run the code generation hundreds of times

Well, Anthropic sure thinks that you should. Number go up!