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>Claude code feels more powerful than cursor, but why? One of the reasons seems it's ability to be scripted. At the end of the day, cursor is an editor, while c

>Claude code feels more powerful than cursor, but why? One of the reasons seems it's ability to be scripted. At the end of the day, cursor is an editor, while claude code is a swiss army knife (on steroids). Agreed, and I find that I use Claude Code on more than traditional code bases. I run it in my Obsidian vault for all kinds of things. I run it to build local custom keyboard bindings with scripts that publish screenshots to my CDN and give me a markdown link, or to build a program that talks to Ollama to summarize my terminal commands for the last day. I remember the old days of needing to figure out if the formatting changes I wanted to make to a file were sufficient to build a script or just do them manually - now I just run Claude in the directory and have it done for me. It's useful for so many things.

jjice 1y ago
I'm very interested to hear what your uses cases are when using it in your Obsidian Vault
- SamPatt 1y ago
  Formatting changes across lots of notes, creating custom plugins, diagnosing problems with community plugins, creating a syncing program that compares my vault (with publish:true frontmatter) to my blog repo and if see changes then automatically updates the repo (which is used to build my site), creating a tool that converts inline urls to markdown footnotes, etc. Obsidian is my source of truth and Claude is really good at managing text, formatting, markdown, JS, etc. I never let it make changes automatically, I don't trust it that much yet, but it has undoubtedly saved me hours of manual fiddling with plugins and formatting alone.
Aeolun 1y ago
The thing is, Claude Code only works if you have the plan. It’s impossible to use it on the API, and it makes me wonder if $100/month is truly enough. I use it all day every day now, and I must be consuming a whole lot more than my $100 is worth.
- sorcerer-mar 1y ago
  > It’s impossible to use it on the API What does this mean?
  - oxidant 1y ago
    Not OP but probably just cost.
    - SV_BubbleTime 1y ago
      This. You can EASILY burn $20 a day doing little, and surely could top $50 a day. It works fine, but the $100 I put in to test it out did not last very long even on Sonnet.
- ggsp 1y ago
  You can definitely use Claude Code via the API
  - lawrencechen 1y ago
    I think he means it's not economically sound to use it via API
    - wahnfrieden 1y ago
      A well-known iOS dev used Claude Code to build an iOS app and wrote a custom checking tool for how many tokens it consumed on the plan to compare with API pricing. He uses two max plans ($200/mo + $200/mo) and his API estimate was north of $10,000/mo
- practal 1y ago
  I think it is available on Claude Pro now, so just $20.
  - razemio 1y ago
AstroBen 1y ago
I had an LLM sort a crap-tonne of my notes into category folders the other day. My god that was helpful
cpard 1y ago
How do you script Claude code? I've been using it as a CLI but haven't thought of invoking Claude code through a script, sounds very interesting.
- dghlsakjg 1y ago
  Read the article. Basically just using aliases for specififc prompts.

jjice 1y ago

I'm very interested to hear what your uses cases are when using it in your Obsidian Vault

SamPatt 1y ago
Formatting changes across lots of notes, creating custom plugins, diagnosing problems with community plugins, creating a syncing program that compares my vault (with publish:true frontmatter) to my blog repo and if see changes then automatically updates the repo (which is used to build my site), creating a tool that converts inline urls to markdown footnotes, etc. Obsidian is my source of truth and Claude is really good at managing text, formatting, markdown, JS, etc. I never let it make changes automatically, I don't trust it that much yet, but it has undoubtedly saved me hours of manual fiddling with plugins and formatting alone.

Aeolun 1y ago

The thing is, Claude Code only works if you have the plan. It’s impossible to use it on the API, and it makes me wonder if $100/month is truly enough. I use it all day every day now, and I must be consuming a whole lot more than my $100 is worth.

sorcerer-mar 1y ago
> It’s impossible to use it on the API What does this mean?
- oxidant 1y ago
  Not OP but probably just cost.
  - SV_BubbleTime 1y ago
    This. You can EASILY burn $20 a day doing little, and surely could top $50 a day. It works fine, but the $100 I put in to test it out did not last very long even on Sonnet.
ggsp 1y ago
You can definitely use Claude Code via the API
- lawrencechen 1y ago
  I think he means it's not economically sound to use it via API
  - wahnfrieden 1y ago
    A well-known iOS dev used Claude Code to build an iOS app and wrote a custom checking tool for how many tokens it consumed on the plan to compare with API pricing. He uses two max plans ($200/mo + $200/mo) and his API estimate was north of $10,000/mo
practal 1y ago
I think it is available on Claude Pro now, so just $20.
- razemio 1y ago

AstroBen 1y ago

I had an LLM sort a crap-tonne of my notes into category folders the other day. My god that was helpful

cpard 1y ago

How do you script Claude code? I've been using it as a CLI but haven't thought of invoking Claude code through a script, sounds very interesting.

dghlsakjg 1y ago
Read the article. Basically just using aliases for specififc prompts.