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The creator of Claude Code's Claude setup

568 points by KothuRoti 10mo ago

ahurmazda 10mo ago
https://xcancel.com/bcherny/status/2007179832300581177 https://xcancel.com/bcherny/status/2007179832300581177
bikeshaving 10mo ago
Must be nice to have unquota’ed tokens to use with frontier AI (is this the case for Anthropic employees?). One thing I think is fascinating as we enter the Intellicene is the disproportionate access to AI. The ability to petition them to do what you want is currently based on monthly subscriptions, but will it change in the future? Who knows?
- selcuka 10mo ago
  > is this the case for Anthropic employees? Not sure about all Anhropic employees, but that must definitely be the case for Boris Cherny.
- Aurornis 10mo ago
  > (is this the case for Anthropic employees?) It would be funny if the company paying software engineers $500K or more along with gold-plated stock options was limiting how much they could use the software their company was developing.
  - joshribakoff 10mo ago
    Why is that funny? What company gives you unlimited resources? That doesn’t scale. Google employees can’t just demand a $10,000 workstation. It’s reasonable to assume they have some guardrails, for both financial and stability reasons. Who knows… if it’s unlimited now, will it stay that way forever? Probably unlimited in the same sense as unlimited pto.
    - cma 10mo ago
      If it takes a lot of back and forth it between lots of people it is more like a $12000 workstation or more after the labor for requesting and approving.
    - seg_lol 10mo ago
      Folks in MEGACORP cloud env can spend > 5 digits a month and not get noticed.
      - perfmode 10mo ago
        Can they spend 7 digits?
        seg_lol 10mo ago
        Yes, but it would get noticed.
    - plorkyeran 10mo ago
      I can't get a $10k workstation but if I used $10k/month on cloud compute it'd take a few months for anyone to talk to me about it and as long as I was actually using it for work purposes I wouldn't run into any consequences more severe than being told to knock it off if I couldn't convince people it was worth the cost.
    - groby_b 10mo ago
      If an employee has a business need for a $10k workstation, I'm fairly certain they'll get a $10k workstation. Yes, accounting still happens. Guardrails exist. But quibbling over 2% of a SWEs salary if it's clear that the productivity increase will be significantly more than 2% would be... not a wise use of anybody's time.
    - Aurornis 10mo ago
      > Why is that funny? What company gives you unlimited resources? Anthropic has raised tens of billions of dollars of funding. Their number of employees is in the thousands. This isn't like Google. Claude Code is what they're developing. The company is obviously going to encourage them to use it as much as possible. Limiting how much the Claude Code lead can use Claude Code would be funny because their lead dev would have to stop mid-day and wait for his token quota window to reset before he can continue developing their flagship coding product. Not going to happen. I'm strangely fascinated by the reaction in the comments, though. A lot of people here must have worked in oddly restrictive corporate environments to even think that a company like this would limit how much their own employees can use the company's own product to develop their own product.
  - codesnik 10mo ago
    well, not only their software but also hardware resources they're renting, but I agree they don't.
  - perfmode 10mo ago
    Tokens aren’t free.
    - Aurornis 10mo ago
      When you work for the company supplying those tokens and you're working on the product that sells those tokens at scale, the company will let you use as many tokens as you want.
  - blhack 10mo ago
    Especially when the software they're developing is supposed to speed up the speed at which the software they are developing is developed.
  - michaelmcmillan 10mo ago
    It is a long-standing policy at Netflix for employees to pay for their own subscriptions. It ensures that employees "live the member experience".
    - Aurornis 10mo ago
      That’s for personal use at home. I guarantee the engineers at Netflix who develop and test video streaming aren’t doing so on their family’s home Netflix plan.
- dcre 10mo ago
  Pretty sure I have seen them imply in one of the panel discussions on their YouTube channel (can't remember which) that they get unlimited use of the best models. I remember them talking about records for the most spent in a day or something.
- returnInfinity 10mo ago
  Its not unlimited, the compute allocation was one of the reason for the coup at OpenAI
  - pbmonster 10mo ago
    Pretty sure that was scientists competing for 6 month training runs of new 100B+ parameter models, not coders burning through a couple of million tokens.
- avereveard 10mo ago
  Owning the means of cognition is going to be more and more importan as it allows one to scale more than linearly. Outsiders will be tied to limited or pay per use because owning the means of cognition will be a massive extractive economy
- crthpl 10mo ago
  It is the case that Anthropic employees have no usage limits. Some people do experiments where they spawn up hundreds of Claude instances just to see if any of them succeed.
  - OccamsMirror 10mo ago
    Are they using these tests as a form of RLHF?
andruby 10mo ago
Great list of useful tips. It's interesting that Boris doesn't mention "Agent Skills" at all. I'm still a bit confused at the difference between slash commands and Agent Skills. https://code.claude.com/docs/en/skills https://code.claude.com/docs/en/skills
- gulaggoon 10mo ago
  The main difference is that slash commands are invoked by humans, whereas skills can only be invoked by the agent itself. It works kinda as conditional instructions. As an example, I have skills that aide in adding more detail to plans/specs, debugging, and for spinning up/partitioning subagents to execute tasks. I don't need to invoke a slash command each time, and the agent can contextually know by the instructions I give it what skills to use.
  - throwup238 10mo ago
    In the reddit thread Boris says they’re adding the ability to call skills via slash commands in an upcoming release and that he uses the term skill and slash commands interchangeably.
- cafebeen 10mo ago
  I believe slash commands are all loaded into the initial context and executed when invoked by the user. Skills on the other hand only load the name and description into initial context, and the agent (not user) determines when to invoke them, and only then is the whole skill loaded into context. So skills shift decision making to the agent and use progressive disclosure for context efficiency.
- discordance 10mo ago
  "Boris: Skills = slash commands, I use them interchangeably" https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeAI/comments/1q2c0ne/comment/nxc4ap6/ https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeAI/comments/1q2c0ne/comment/n...
preommr 10mo ago
I don't understand how these setups scale longterm, and even more so for the average user. The latter is relevant because, as he points out, his setup isn't that far out of reach of the average person - it's still fairly close to out of the box claude code, and opus. But between the model qualities varying, the pricing, the timing, the tools constantly changing, I think it's really difficult to build the institutional knowledge and setup that can be used beyond a few weeks. In the era of AI, I don't tink it's good enough to "have" a working product. It's also important to have all the other things that make a project way more productive, like stellar documentation, better abstractions, clearer architecture. In terms of AI, there's gotta be something better than just a markdown file with random notes. Like what happens when an agent does something because it's picking something up from some random slack convo, or some minor note in a 10k claude.md file. It just seems like the wild west where basic ideas like additional surface area being a liability is ignored because we're too early in the cycle. tl;dr If it's just pushing around typical mid-level code, then... I just think that's falling behind.
skeptic_ai 10mo ago
I doubt he’d use Claude code as it is. I’m sure he’d upgrade to think harder and do more iterations and go deeper. Codex for example already does that but could go deeper a bit longer to figure out more.
aaronbrethorst 10mo ago
He did a follow up with someone on Reddit and the answers were posted here: https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeAI/comments/1q2c0ne/comment/nxc4ap6/ 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
- hnroo99 10mo ago
  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.
  - prasoon2211 10mo ago
    iirc he (or his colleague) did mention somewhere on X that most of the PRs are small
  - xixixao 10mo ago
    For comparison, I remember doing 250 PRs in 2.5 months of my internship at FB (working on a fullstack web app). So that’s 2-4x faster. What’s interesting is that it’s Boris, not an intern (although the LLM can play an intern well).
  - northern-lights 10mo ago
    Because he is working on a product that is hot and has demand from the users for new features/bug fixes/whatnot and also gets visibility on getting such things delivered. Most of us don't work on products that have that on a daily basis.
    - ruszki 10mo ago
      In other words, nobody cares that the generated code is shit, because there is no human who can review that much code. Not even on high level. According to the discussion here, they don’t even care whether the tests are real. They just care about that it’s green. If tests are useless in reality? Who cares, nobody has time to check them! And who will suffer because of this? Who cares, they pray that not them!
baalimago 10mo ago
I'm a bit jealous. I would like to experiment with having a similar setup, but 10x Opus 4.5 running practically non stop must amount to a very high inference bill. Is it really worth the output? From experimentation, I need to coach the models quite closely in order to get enough value. Letting it loose only works when I've given very specific instructions. But I'm using Codex and Clai, perhaps Claude code is better.
- UncleOxidant 10mo ago
  Yeah, doesn't this guy work for Anthropic? He'd get to use 10x Opus 4.5 for free.
- Snakes3727 10mo ago
  I have a coworker who is basically doing this right now he leads our team and is second place overall. Regularly runs opus in parallel he alone is burning through 1k worth of credits a day. He is also one of our worst performers.
  - h33t-l4x0r 10mo ago
    Wait, what is he second place at?
    - wiseowise 10mo ago
      Credit usage.
- Maxion 10mo ago
  I've tried running a number of claude's in paralell on a CRUD full stack JS app. Yes, it got features made faster, yes it definitely did not leave me enough time to acutally look at what they did, yes it definitely produced sub-par code. At the moment with one claude + manually fixing crap it produces I am faster at solving "easier" features (Think add API endpoint, re-build API client, implement frontend logic for API endpoint + UI) faster than if I write it myself. Things that are more logic dense, it tends to produce so many errors that it's faster to solve myself.
ddanieltan 10mo ago
Absolutely shocking... Boris uses a light themed terminal?! Kidding aside, these were great tips. I am quite intrigued by the handing off of local Claude sessions to the web version. I wonder if this feature exists for the other Coding CLI agents.
cube00 10mo ago
It'd be nice if he explained the cost to be running 10 agents all day.
- Strongbad536 10mo ago
  he's probably on the max plan ;)
- HarHarVeryFunny 10mo ago
  Yeah... I had a fairly in-depth conversation with Claude a couple of days ago about Claude Code and the way it works, and usage limits, and comparison to how other AI coding tools work, and the extremely blunt advice from Claude was that Claude Code was not suitable for serious software development due to usage limits! (props to Anthropic for not sugar coating it!) Maybe on the Max 20x plan it becomes viable, and no doubt on the Boris Cherny unlimited usage plan it does, but it seems that without very aggressive non-stop context pruning you will rapidly hit limits and the 5-hour timeout even working with a single session, let alone 5 Claude Code sessions and another 5-10 web ones! The key to this is the way that Claude Code (the local part) works and interacts with Claude AI (the actual model, running in the cloud). Basically Claude Code maintains the context, comprising mostly of the session history, contents of source files it has accessed, and the read/write/edit tools (based on Node.js) it is providing for Claude AI. This entire context, including all files that have been read, and the tools definitions, are sent to Claude AI (eating into your token usage limit) with EVERY request, so once Claude Code has accessed a few source files then the content of those files will "silently" be sent as part of every subsequent request, regardless of what it is. Claude gave me an example of where with 3 smallish files open (a few thousand lines of code), then within 5 requests the token usage might be 80,000 or so, vs the 40,000 limit of the Pro plan or 200,000 limit of the Max 5x plan. Once you hit limit then you have to wait 5 hours for a usage reset, so without Cherny's infinite usage limit this becomes a game of hurry up and wait (make 5 requests, then wait 5 hours and make 5 more). You can restrict what source files Claude Code has access to, to try to manage context size (e.g. in a C++ project, let it access all the .h module definition files, but block all the .cpp ones) as well as manually inspecting the context all the time to see what is being sent that can be removed. I believe there is some automatic context compaction happening periodically too, but apparently not enough to prevent many/most people hitting usage time outs when working on larger projects. Not relevant here, but Claude also explained how Cursor manages to provide fast/cheap autocomplete using it's own models by building a vector index of the code base to only pull relevant chunks of code into the context.
TheTaytay 10mo ago
This was extremely useful to read for many reasons, but my favorite thing I learned is that you can “teleport” a task FROM the local Claude Code to Claude Code on the web by prepending your request with “&”. That makes it a “background” task, which I initially erroneously thought was a local background task. Turns out it sends the task and conversation history up to the web version. This allows you to do work in other branches on Claude Code web, (and then teleport those sessions back down to local later if you wish)
- jauntywundrkind 10mo ago
  OpenCode is actually client server architecture. Typically one either runs the TUI or the web interface. I wonder if it would cope ok with running multiple interfaces at once? Neovim has a decade old feature request for multiple clients to be able to connect to it. No traction alas. Always a great superpower to have, if you can hack it. https://github.com/neovim/neovim/issues/2161 https://github.com/neovim/neovim/issues/2161 Chrome DevToops Protocol added multiple client support maybe 5 years ago? It's super handy there because automation tools also use the same port. So you couldn't automate and debug at the same time! That is a really tool ability, to move work between different executors. OpenCode is also super good at letting you open an old session & carry on, so you can switch between. I appreciate the mention; I love the mobile ambient aspect of how Claude Code can teleport this all!!
  - behnamoh 10mo ago
    > Neovim has a decade old feature request for multiple clients to be able to connect to it. No traction alas. Why cram all features into one giant software instead of using multiple smaller pieces of software in conjunction? For the feature you mentioned I just use tmux which is built for this stuff. Also, OpenCode has been extremely unreliable. I opened a PR about one of the simplest tools ever: `ls`, and they haven't fixed it yet. In a folder, their ls doesn't actually do what you'd expect: if iterates over all files of all folders (200 limit) and shows them to the model...
  - LorenzoGood 10mo ago
    > Neovim has a decade old feature request for multiple clients to be able to connect to it. No traction alas. Always a great superpower to have, if you can hack it. https://github.com/neovim/neovim/issues/ https://github.com/neovim/neovim/issues/ I do this to great effect with Emacs daemon mode.
ej88 10mo ago
I implemented some of his setup and have been loving it so far. My current workflow is typically 3-5 Claude Codes in parallel - Shallow clone, plan mode back and forth until I get the spec down, hand off to subagent to write a plan.md - Ralph Wiggum Claude using plan.md and skills until PR passes tests, CI/CD, auto-responds to greptile reviews, prepares the PR for me to review - Back and forth with Claude for any incremental changes or fixes - Playwright MCP for Claude to view the browser for frontend I still always comb through the PRs and double check everything including local testing, which is definitely the bottleneck in my dev cycles, but I'll typically have 2-4 PRs lined up ready for me at any moment.
- dbbk 10mo ago
  Do you prefer Playwright or the Chrome MCP?
- firemelt 10mo ago
  3-5 parallel claude code, do they work at same repo? do they work on same features/goals?
  - ej88 10mo ago
    We have a giant monorepo, hence the shallow clones. Each Claude works on its own feature / bug / ticket though, sometimes in the same part of the codebase but usually in different parts (my ralph loop has them resolve any merge conflicts automatically). I also have one Claude running just for spelunking through K8s, doing research, or asking questions about the codebase I'm unfamiliar with.
llmslave2 10mo ago
Couple things stand out to me: 1) everyone on the team uses Claude code differently. 2) Claude Code has been around for almost a year and is being built by an entire team, yet doesn't seem to have benefited from this approach. The program is becoming buggier and less reliable over time, and development speed seems indistinguishable from anything else. 3) Everything this person says should be taken with a massive grain of salt considering their various conflicts of interest.
- nmfisher 10mo ago
  (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.
  - johnfn 10mo ago
    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.
    - jen20 10mo ago
      Are you sure it's _not_ VS Code at issue here? I haven't seen this in Ghostty.
      - johnfn 10mo ago
        I use the VSCode terminal all day every day. No other app I use in it has this issue, including Codex.
        coldtea 10mo ago
        OK, so you have the unbearable pain of using a separate terminal app to use the magic thingie that does your programming for you on prompt, and which didn't exist merely 2 years ago. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kBLkX2VaQs4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kBLkX2VaQs4
jedberg 10mo ago
The funniest part of that whole thing was when someone said "I trusted you, but you use light mode on your terminal" and then he replied that people stop by his desk daily just to make fun of him for it.
- sschueller 10mo ago
  Everyone was making fun of me in the 2000s for using a dark terminal and IDE...
- stack_framer 10mo ago
  I also use light mode in my terminal. Mock me at your leisure. :)
  - indemnity 10mo ago
    Another convert back to the light from the darkness here. My eyes are getting old. Black text on white background is more legible/clear.
- ramraj07 10mo ago
  The irony is that light mode is objectively the correct way to use things.
  - jedberg 10mo ago
    I'll assume this isn't a troll, and ask you by objective measures you believe this is true?
    - TheRoque 10mo ago
      For people with astigmatism, black in white is generally easier to read than the other way around: https://graphicdesign.stackexchange.com/questions/15142/which-is-easier-on-the-eyes-dark-on-light-or-light-on-dark https://graphicdesign.stackexchange.com/questions/15142/whic... Of your criteria is battery life, dark mode is most likely better If your criteria is eye damage/strain, then IIRC the research is divided on this topic
zhoujianfu 10mo ago
I actually use dozens of claude codes "in parallel" myself (most are sitting idle for a lot of the time though). I set up a web interface and then made it usable by others at clodhost.com if anybody wants to try it (free)!
scrame 10mo ago
so... what's he actually doing with 10 terminals of claude code?
- johnfn 10mo ago
  Working on Claude Code?
  - cluckindan 10mo ago
    Yo dawg, we heard you like for Code to code Code for you.
- almostlikemagic 10mo ago
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EricRiese 10mo ago
Having the 5 instances going at once sounds like Google Antigravity. I haven't used Claude Code too much. One snag I found is the tendency when running into snags to fix them incorrectly by rolling back to older versions of things. I think it would benefit from an MCP server for say Maven Central. Likewise it should prefer to generate code using things like project scaffolding tooling whenever possible.
Snakes3727 10mo ago
Frankly Claude code is painfully slow. To the point I get frustrated. On large codebases I often find it taking 20+ minutes to do basic things like writing tests. Way too often people are like it takes 2 minutes for it to do a full pr. Yeah how big is the code base actually. I also have a coworker who is about 10x more then everyone else. Burning through credits yet he is one of the lowest performers.{closing in on around 1k worth of credits a day now).
- 0x500x79 10mo ago
  $1,000.00 of credits per-day?? $200,000 per year? Those are bonkers numbers for someone not performing at a high level (on-top of their salary). Do you know what they are doing?
  - Snakes3727 10mo ago
    Yup. The way he works is all tasks he is issued in a sprint he just fires them through opus in parallel hoping to get a hit on Claude magically solving the ticket having them constantly be iterated on them. He doesnt even try using proper having plans be created. Often time tickets get fleshed out or requirements change. He just throws everything out and reshoves it into Claude. I weep for the planet.
  - dbbk 10mo ago
    They should just be on the $200 a month Max plan
sevg 10mo ago
Does anyone know if it’s possible to have “ultrathink” be the default instead of saying it in every prompt?
- weird-eye-issue 10mo ago
  Put it in CLAUDE.md because that just gets added to the prompt
  - sevg 10mo ago
    Ah, thank you! Now I feel like an idiot. I guess I was thinking “ultrathink” was a specially interpreted command within claude code (sort of like a slash command).
- Cloudly 10mo ago
  https://x.com/bcherny/status/2007892431031988385?s=20 https://x.com/bcherny/status/2007892431031988385?s=20 Seems to be moved to the default now. PSA for anyone who didn't see
buggymcbugfix 10mo ago
> [I'm] the creator of Claude Code. but also > Claude Code works great out of the box, so I personally don't customize it much. Am I the only one to notice the irony of this juxtaposition?
- weird-eye-issue 10mo ago
  For lots of software unless you really know what you are doing it's best to just leave the default settings alone and not dig too deep into what's not immediately intended to do. For my application lots of bug reports come from people using our advanced settings without reading any of the instructions at all and screwing it up So in the case of him being the creator obviously he built it for his needs
- dbbk 10mo ago
  What’s ironic? He made a good product that works well without needing to configure it?
  - nerevarthelame 10mo ago
    He doesn't need to configure it because he made his preferences the default.
breput 10mo ago
This feels like the desperate, look at me! post, which is the exact opposite of Andrej Karpathy's recent tweet[0] about feeling left behind as a programmer, as covered on Hacker News[1]. I guess would want to see how sustainable this 5 parallel AI effort is, and are there demonstrably positive outcomes. There are plenty of "I one-shotted this" examples of something that already (mostly) existed, which are very impressive in their own right, but I haven't seen a lot of truly novel creations. [0] https://x.com/karpathy/status/2004607146781278521 https://x.com/karpathy/status/2004607146781278521 [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46395714 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46395714
- byopic 10mo ago
  Needlessly condescending post of someone sharing their self-proclaimed vanilla setup of iterm with a handful of tabs. But hey, if it makes you happy.
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- weird-eye-issue 10mo ago
  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 creating new projects). For example if I had it work on a feature and then I realized there was a bug or an adjustment in the same files that needed to be made then I can just go back to that tab hours or maybe even days later without digging through history
  - breput 10mo ago
    > 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 a lot of PRs.
tmerr 10mo ago
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 things at once given the limits of human working memory. It's like someone is claiming they unlocked ultimate productivity by washing dishes, in parallel with doing laundry, and cleaning their house. Likely I am missing something. This is just my gut reaction as someone who has definitely not mastered using agents. Would love to hear from anyone that has a similar workflow where there is high parallelism.
- baby 10mo ago
  I usually have 4-5, but it's because they are working on different parts of the codebase, or some I will use as read only to brainstorm
- quijoteuniv 10mo ago
  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.”
  - tuananh 10mo ago
    maybe more like throw shits to the wall and see what sticks?
  - MattGaiser 10mo ago
    Do you generally only have one problem? For me the use case is that I have numerous needs and Claude frees up time to work on some of the more complicated ones.
- stoneforger 10mo ago
  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.
varun_chopra 10mo ago
It would be very interesting to see the outputs of his operations. How productive is one of his agents? How long does it take to complete a task, and how often does it require steering? I'm a bit of a skeptic. Claude Code is good, but I've had varied results during my usage. Even just 5 minutes ago, I asked CC to view the most recent commit diff using git show. Even when I provided the command, it was doing dumb shit like git show --stat and then running wc for some reason... I've been working on something called postkit[1], which has required me to build incrementally on a codebase that started from nothing and has now grown quite a lot. As it's grown, Claude Code's performance has definitely dipped. [1] https://github.com/varunchopra/postkit https://github.com/varunchopra/postkit
janwillemb 10mo ago
He is singlehandedly responsible for using up an entire city's worth of power and water this way?
- wiseowise 10mo ago
  It’s his marketing budget.
heliumtera 10mo ago
Why stop at 5-10? Make it 5 billion - 10 billion parallel agents. PR number go up
bizzleDawg 10mo ago
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)?
- TheRoque 10mo ago
  Did you manage to make proper reviews of all the 30 PR ?
  - djeastm 10mo ago
    I think we all know the answer to that.
  - bizzleDawg 10mo ago
    I have formal requirements for all implemented code. This is all on relatively greenfield solo developed codebases with tools I know inside out (Django, click based cli etc) so yes. Thanks so much for your concern, internet person!
    - TheRoque 10mo ago
      I was genuinely interested in knowing if you did it properly or not, since I read a lot of tales like this but don't understand how it can be true.
- firemelt 10mo ago
  what cc plan do you use? the20$?
  - bizzleDawg 10mo ago
    Max 5x ($100)
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ahmadyan 10mo ago
I had this ShowHN yesterday, which didn't grab much attention, so i'm using this opportunity as it seems relevant (it is a solution for running CC in parallel) if you folks like to run parallel claude-code sessions, and like native terminal like Ghostty, i have a solution for using Git Worktree natively with Ghostty, it is called agentastic.dev, and it has a built-in Worktree/IDE/Diff/Codereview around Ghostty (macos only for now). Would be happy to answer any questions ShowHN post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46501758 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46501758
copperx 10mo ago
I'm afraid to ask, but because I've been very happy with Codex 5.2 CLI and I can't imagine Claude Code doing better, why is it Claude so loved around here? Sure, I can spend $20 and figure it out, but I already pay $40/mo for two ChatGPT subs and that's enough to get me through a month. Should I spend $20 to see for myself?
- mccoyb 10mo ago
  It codes faster and with more abandon. For good results, mix Claude Code with Codex (preferably high or xhigh reasoning) for reviews.
  - copperx 10mo ago
    Thanks. The reason for my hesitancy is that I've heard that the $20 sub isn't enough for anything meaningful.
- dboon 10mo ago
  Why are you asking this? Just try it. It takes maybe fifteen minutes of your time. It’s $20. There is no possible argument against $20 or fifteen minutes if the tool has a chance of being even just 10% better. You’ve spent more time typing by the comment and I responding than it would take to…just try it…
- cantalopes 10mo ago
  If you spend only 20 on claude code you will not get far, it will lock you out after about hour of work for session usage limits
  - Melonai 10mo ago
    How much would you consider a good amount? I can't really afford more than 20$ myself, but perhaps there's a better more monetarily-optimal workflow.
    - k4rli 10mo ago
cantalopes 10mo ago
That's just unrealistic. If i were to use it like this as an actual end user i would get stopped by rate limits/those weekly / session limits instantly
mips_avatar 10mo ago
One thing that’s helped me is creating a bake-off. I’ll do it between Claude and codex. Same prompt but separate environments. They’ll both do their thing and then I’ll score them at the end. I find it helps me because frequently only one of them makes a mistake, or one of them finds an interesting solution. Then once I declare a winner I have scripts to reset the bake-off environments.
- baq 10mo ago
  you can have them review each other's work, too.
mks_shuffle 10mo ago
How much Codex and Claude Code are different from each other? I have been using Codex for few weeks doing experiments related to data analysis and training models with some architecture modifications. I wouldn't say I have used it extensively, but so far my experience has been good. Only annoying part has been not able to use GPU in the Codex without using `--sandbox danger-full-access` flag. Today, I started using Claude Code, and ran similar experiments as Codex. I find the interface is quite similar to Codex. However, I hit the limit quite quickly in Claude Code. I will be exploring its features further. I would appreciate if anyone can share their experience of using both tools.
- mike_hearn 10mo ago
  Codex is heavily inspired by Claude Code. They aren't that different. They might diverge more in future.
  - dbbk 10mo ago
    They are quite different, Claude Code with Opus 4.5 is miles better than Codex
    - mike_hearn 10mo ago
      What is it you find makes it much better?
omnicognate 10mo ago
I tried Claude Code a while back when I decided to give "vibe-coding" a go. That was was actually quite successful, producing a little utility that I use to this day, completely without looking at the code. (Well, I did briefly glance at it after completion and it made my eyeballs melt.) I concluded the value of this to me personally was nowhere near the price I was charged so I didn't continue using it, but I was impressed nonetheless. This brief use of Claude Code was done mostly on a train using my mobile phone's wi-fi hotspot. Since the connection would be lost whenever the train went through a tunnel, I encountered a bug in Claude Code [1]. The result of it was that whenever the connection dropped and came up again I had to edit an internal json file it used to track the state of its tool use, which had become corrupt. The issue had been open for months then, and still is. The discussion under it is truly remarkable, and includes this comment from the devs: > While we are always monitoring instances of this error and and looking to fix them, it's unlikely we will ever completely eliminate it due to how tricky concurrency problems are in general. Claude Code is, in principle, a simple command-line utility. I am confident that (given the backend and model, ofc) I could implement the functionality of it that I used in (generously!) at most a few thousand lines of python or javascript, I am very confident that I could do so without introducing concurrency bugs and I am extremely confident that I could do it without messing up the design so badly that concurrency issues crop up continually and I have to admit to being powerless to fix them all. Programming is hard, concurrency problems are tricky and I don't like to cast aspersions on other developers, but we're being told this is the future of programming and we'd better get on board or be left behind and it looks like we're being told this by people who, with presumably unlimited access to all this wonderful tooling, don't appear to be able to write decent software. [1] https://github.com/anthropics/claude-code/issues/6836 https://github.com/anthropics/claude-code/issues/6836
rdiddly 10mo ago
I feel like it's time for me to hang up this career. Prompting is boring, and doing it 5 times at once is just annoying multitasking. I know I'm mostly in it for the money, but at least there used to be a feeling of accomplishment sometimes. Now it's like, whose accomplishment is it?
- webdev1234568 10mo ago
  Don't give up to the facade just yet. This is the creator of a product saying how good it is. If you've worked anywhere professionally you know how every place has its problems, where people just lie constantly about things? Yeah. Keep at it and see where things go. I'm also a dev a bit overwhelmed by all of this talk, at my job I've tried quite a few things and I'm still mostly just using copilot for auto complete and very small tasks that I review throughly, everything else is manually. If this is indeed the future I also don't wanna be a part of it and will switch to another career, but all this talk seems to come only from the people who actually built these things.
- tkel 10mo ago
  Agreed, the author basically says that coding is not required anymore, the job is reviewing code. Do engineers not actually want to build things themselves anymore? Where is the joy and pride in the craft? Are we just supposed to maximize productivity at the expense of our life's experience? Are we any different than machines at that point?
  - brysonreece 10mo ago
    I feel like it’s not talked about enough that the ultimate irony of software engineering is that, as an industry, it’s aiming to make itself obsolete as much as possible. I struggle to think of any other industry that, completely on their own accord, has actively pushed to put themselves out of work to such a degree.
  - fantasizr 10mo ago
    prompting in my experience is boring and/or frustrating. Why anyone would want to do more of that without MASSIVE financial incentives is unthinkable. No composer or writer would ever want to prompt a "work".
closingreunion 10mo ago
Ao this guy is personally responsible for the RAM shortage, it seems. Jokes aside, i have a similar setup, but with a mix of claude and a local model. Claude can access the local model for simple and repetitive tasks, and it actually does a good job on testing UI. Great way to save tokens.
jcsoft 10mo ago
very interesting discussion I don't know how can you keep up with all the comments ^_^ so I create a review with pros and cons https://gist.github.com/notjulian/3a623d7889e5971d4b9fd1aac949b74e https://gist.github.com/notjulian/3a623d7889e5971d4b9fd1aac9...
thetamarind11 10mo ago
Warm take for sure, but I feel that LLMs and agents have made me a worse programmer as a whole. I am enjoying the less mental strain as I do my hobbies like sketching/art while the LLM is running. But definitely it isn't making me any faster. I'm at the point of considering another job but I just fear that my skills have deteriorated to the point that I can't pass any (manual) coding assessments anymore
callamdelaney 10mo ago
I have to say it sounds insane. 5 tabs of claude, back and forth from terminal to browser - and no actual workflow detailed. Are we to believe that claude is making changes in parallel to one codebase, and if so - why?
maximgeorge 10mo ago
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nikanj 10mo ago
"My setup might be surprisingly vanilla! Claude Code works great out of the box, so I personally don't customize it much. " Well, of course he doesn't need to customize it. It's already working the way he wants it, seeing as how he created it
oulipo2 10mo ago
Let's stop linking to a pedophile-enabling website like X please
jumploops 10mo ago
I’ve found that experienced devs use agentic coding in a more “hands-on” way than beginners and pure vibe-coders. Vibecoders are the best because they push the models in humorous and unexpected ways. Junior devs are like “I automated the deploy process via an agent and this markdown file” Seasoned devs will spend more time writing the prompt for a bug fix, or lazily paste the error and then make the 1-line change themselves. The current crop of LLMs are more powerful than any of these use cases, and it’s exciting to see experienced devs start to figure that out (I’m not stanning Gas Town[0], but it’s a glimpse of the potential). [0]https://steve-yegge.medium.com/welcome-to-gas-town-4f25ee16dd04 https://steve-yegge.medium.com/welcome-to-gas-town-4f25ee16d...
- Melonai 10mo ago
  Partially related: I really dislike the vibe of Gas Town, both the post and the tool, I really hope this isn't what the future looks like. It just feels disappointing.
vemv 10mo ago
How has Claude Code (as a CLI tool, not the backing models) evolved over the last year? For me it's practically the same, except for features that I don't need, don't work that well and are context-hungry. Meanwhile, Claude Code still doesn't know how to jump to a dependency (library's) source to obtain factual information about it. Which is actually quite easy by hand (normally it's cd'ing into a directory or unzipping some file). So, this wasteful workflow only resulted in vibecoded, non-core features while at the domain level, Claude Code remains overly agnostic if not stupid.
kingkongjaffa 10mo ago
The amount of people holding strong opinions on LLMs who openly admit they have not tried the state of the art tools is so high on Hacker news right now, that it's refreshing to get actual updates from the tool's creators. I read a comment yesterday that said something like "many people tried LLMs early on, it was kind of janky and so they gave up, thinking LLMs are bad". They were probably right at the time, but the tech _has_ improved since then, while those opinions have not changed much. So, yes claude code and sonnet/opus 4.5 is another step change that you should try out. For $20/month you can run claude code in the terminal and regular claude on the web app.
PeterStuer 10mo ago
10-15 parallel Opus 4.5 instances running almost full-time? Even if you could get it, what would be the monthly bill for that?
- Syzygies 10mo ago
  One of my side projects has been to recover a K&R C computer algebra system from the 1980's, port to modern 64-bit C. I'd have eight tabs at a time assigned files from a task server, to make passes at 60 or so files. This nearly worked; I'm paused till I can have an agent with a context window that can look at all the code at once. Or I'll attempt a fresh translation based on what I learned. With a $200 monthly Max subscription, I would regularly stall after completing significant work, but this workflow was feasible. I tried my API key for an hour once; it taught me to laugh at the $200 as quite a deal. I agree that Opus 4.5 is the only reasonable use of my time. We wouldn't hire some guy off the fryer line to be our CTO; coding needs best effort. Nevertheless, I thought my setup was involved, but if Boris considers his to be vanilla ice cream then I'm drinking skim milk.
ed_mercer 10mo ago
>Most sessions start in Plan mode I don't get why they added a Plan mode. Even without it, you can just ask claude to "make a plan" from where you can iterate on it. Also is it really that much faster to type "/commit-push-pr" than it is to type "commit, push and make a pr" ?
- dbbk 10mo ago
  It’s really a convenience to force the model to use the planning tool and it prevents edit/write tools until the user approves the plan, like an inverse of “auto accept edits” mode.
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unforbiddenYet 10mo ago
The PostToolUse hook tip for formatting Claude's code is the only actual tip here. Everything else reads like marketing copy.
- dbbk 10mo ago
  That’s in the docs though
mattacular 10mo ago
Absolute madness and no thank you. Have others not noticed the extremely obvious astroturfing campaign specifically promoting Claude code that is mostly happening on X in recent days/weeks?
brazukadev 10mo ago
I'm a heavy claude code user but this is starting to smell like BS. There is nothing special in claude code, opus is a good model and with lots of requests it can give good results. There is nothing unique to it.
qwertox 10mo ago
How come that Claude Code isn't open source? I can't imagine that it has some kind of special access to Anthropic's servers and that it does things an API-user can't do, maybe except for the option to use the Claude.ai credits/quota. Even their Agent SDK just wraps the `claude`-executable, IIRC.
rebridge 10mo ago
Boris is a power user's power user. I would highly recommend every project maintain a simple, well-written AGENTS.md file. At first it may seem like a more nitpicky README, but you will quickly see how much coding agents benefit from this added context. Imo, the two most important things to include in AGENTS.md are frequent commands and verification methods. A third thing I've started adding to my projects is a list of related documentation and libraries that may not be immediately obvious. Things like confluence pages and other repos associated with the project.
lifetimerubyist 10mo ago
I'm sure this works for people and I'm happy for them but this sounds like absolute hell to me. Just take out everything that I like about SWE and then just leave me to do the stuff I hate.
mrichman 10mo ago
Bun is the new Yarn?
newsoftheday 10mo ago
Another Claude related article. It's starting to feel like spam now.
firemelt 10mo ago
why he open multiple tab? is it means he gives multiple task to them?
- firemelt 10mo ago
  it means he develope 5 to 10 features for same repo
zen4ttitude 10mo ago
What I find surprising is how much human intervention the creator of Claude uses. Every time Claude does something bad we write it in claude.md so he learns from it... Why not create an agent to handle this and learn automatically from previous implementations. B: Outcome Weighting # memory/store.py OUTCOME_WEIGHTS = { RunOutcome.SUCCESS: 1.0, # Full weight RunOutcome.PARTIAL: 0.7, # Some issues but shipped RunOutcome.FAILED: 0.3, # Downweighted but still findable RunOutcome.CANCELLED: 0.2, # Minimal weight } # Applied during scoring: final_score = score * decay_factor * outcome_weight C: Anti-Pattern Retrieval # Similar features → SUCCESS/PARTIAL only similar_features = store.search(..., outcome_filter=[SUCCESS, PARTIAL]) # Anti-patterns → FAILED only (separate section) anti_patterns = store.search(..., outcome_filter=[FAILED]) Injected into agent prompt: ## Similar Past Features (Successful) 1. "Add rate limiting with Redis..." (Outcome: success, Score: 0.87) ## Anti-Patterns (What NOT to Do) _These similar attempts failed - avoid these approaches:_ 1. "Add rate limiting with in-memory..." (FAILED, Score: 0.72) ## Watch Out For - **Redis connection timeout**: Set connection pool size The flow now: Query: "Add rate limiting" │ ├──► Similar successful features (ranked by outcome × decay × similarity) │ ├──► Failed attempts (shown as warnings) │ └──► Agent sees both "what worked" AND "what didn't"

568 points by KothuRoti 10mo ago

https://xcancel.com/bcherny/status/2007179832300581177 https://xcancel.com/bcherny/status/2007179832300581177

Must be nice to have unquota’ed tokens to use with frontier AI (is this the case for Anthropic employees?). One thing I think is fascinating as we enter the Intellicene is the disproportionate access to AI. The ability to petition them to do what you want is currently based on monthly subscriptions, but will it change in the future? Who knows?

selcuka 10mo ago
> is this the case for Anthropic employees? Not sure about all Anhropic employees, but that must definitely be the case for Boris Cherny.
Aurornis 10mo ago
> (is this the case for Anthropic employees?) It would be funny if the company paying software engineers $500K or more along with gold-plated stock options was limiting how much they could use the software their company was developing.
- joshribakoff 10mo ago
  Why is that funny? What company gives you unlimited resources? That doesn’t scale. Google employees can’t just demand a $10,000 workstation. It’s reasonable to assume they have some guardrails, for both financial and stability reasons. Who knows… if it’s unlimited now, will it stay that way forever? Probably unlimited in the same sense as unlimited pto.
  - cma 10mo ago
    If it takes a lot of back and forth it between lots of people it is more like a $12000 workstation or more after the labor for requesting and approving.
  - seg_lol 10mo ago
    Folks in MEGACORP cloud env can spend > 5 digits a month and not get noticed.
    - perfmode 10mo ago
      Can they spend 7 digits?
      - seg_lol 10mo ago
        Yes, but it would get noticed.
  - plorkyeran 10mo ago
    I can't get a $10k workstation but if I used $10k/month on cloud compute it'd take a few months for anyone to talk to me about it and as long as I was actually using it for work purposes I wouldn't run into any consequences more severe than being told to knock it off if I couldn't convince people it was worth the cost.
  - groby_b 10mo ago
    If an employee has a business need for a $10k workstation, I'm fairly certain they'll get a $10k workstation. Yes, accounting still happens. Guardrails exist. But quibbling over 2% of a SWEs salary if it's clear that the productivity increase will be significantly more than 2% would be... not a wise use of anybody's time.
  - Aurornis 10mo ago
    > Why is that funny? What company gives you unlimited resources? Anthropic has raised tens of billions of dollars of funding. Their number of employees is in the thousands. This isn't like Google. Claude Code is what they're developing. The company is obviously going to encourage them to use it as much as possible. Limiting how much the Claude Code lead can use Claude Code would be funny because their lead dev would have to stop mid-day and wait for his token quota window to reset before he can continue developing their flagship coding product. Not going to happen. I'm strangely fascinated by the reaction in the comments, though. A lot of people here must have worked in oddly restrictive corporate environments to even think that a company like this would limit how much their own employees can use the company's own product to develop their own product.
- codesnik 10mo ago
  well, not only their software but also hardware resources they're renting, but I agree they don't.
- perfmode 10mo ago
  Tokens aren’t free.
  - Aurornis 10mo ago
    When you work for the company supplying those tokens and you're working on the product that sells those tokens at scale, the company will let you use as many tokens as you want.
- blhack 10mo ago
  Especially when the software they're developing is supposed to speed up the speed at which the software they are developing is developed.
- michaelmcmillan 10mo ago
  It is a long-standing policy at Netflix for employees to pay for their own subscriptions. It ensures that employees "live the member experience".
  - Aurornis 10mo ago
    That’s for personal use at home. I guarantee the engineers at Netflix who develop and test video streaming aren’t doing so on their family’s home Netflix plan.
dcre 10mo ago
Pretty sure I have seen them imply in one of the panel discussions on their YouTube channel (can't remember which) that they get unlimited use of the best models. I remember them talking about records for the most spent in a day or something.
returnInfinity 10mo ago
Its not unlimited, the compute allocation was one of the reason for the coup at OpenAI
- pbmonster 10mo ago
  Pretty sure that was scientists competing for 6 month training runs of new 100B+ parameter models, not coders burning through a couple of million tokens.
avereveard 10mo ago
Owning the means of cognition is going to be more and more importan as it allows one to scale more than linearly. Outsiders will be tied to limited or pay per use because owning the means of cognition will be a massive extractive economy
crthpl 10mo ago
It is the case that Anthropic employees have no usage limits. Some people do experiments where they spawn up hundreds of Claude instances just to see if any of them succeed.
- OccamsMirror 10mo ago
  Are they using these tests as a form of RLHF?

andruby 10mo ago

Great list of useful tips. It's interesting that Boris doesn't mention "Agent Skills" at all. I'm still a bit confused at the difference between slash commands and Agent Skills. https://code.claude.com/docs/en/skills https://code.claude.com/docs/en/skills

gulaggoon 10mo ago
The main difference is that slash commands are invoked by humans, whereas skills can only be invoked by the agent itself. It works kinda as conditional instructions. As an example, I have skills that aide in adding more detail to plans/specs, debugging, and for spinning up/partitioning subagents to execute tasks. I don't need to invoke a slash command each time, and the agent can contextually know by the instructions I give it what skills to use.
- throwup238 10mo ago
  In the reddit thread Boris says they’re adding the ability to call skills via slash commands in an upcoming release and that he uses the term skill and slash commands interchangeably.
cafebeen 10mo ago
I believe slash commands are all loaded into the initial context and executed when invoked by the user. Skills on the other hand only load the name and description into initial context, and the agent (not user) determines when to invoke them, and only then is the whole skill loaded into context. So skills shift decision making to the agent and use progressive disclosure for context efficiency.
discordance 10mo ago
"Boris: Skills = slash commands, I use them interchangeably" https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeAI/comments/1q2c0ne/comment/nxc4ap6/ https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeAI/comments/1q2c0ne/comment/n...

preommr 10mo ago

I don't understand how these setups scale longterm, and even more so for the average user. The latter is relevant because, as he points out, his setup isn't that far out of reach of the average person - it's still fairly close to out of the box claude code, and opus. But between the model qualities varying, the pricing, the timing, the tools constantly changing, I think it's really difficult to build the institutional knowledge and setup that can be used beyond a few weeks. In the era of AI, I don't tink it's good enough to "have" a working product. It's also important to have all the other things that make a project way more productive, like stellar documentation, better abstractions, clearer architecture. In terms of AI, there's gotta be something better than just a markdown file with random notes. Like what happens when an agent does something because it's picking something up from some random slack convo, or some minor note in a 10k claude.md file. It just seems like the wild west where basic ideas like additional surface area being a liability is ignored because we're too early in the cycle. tl;dr If it's just pushing around typical mid-level code, then... I just think that's falling behind.

skeptic_ai 10mo ago

I doubt he’d use Claude code as it is. I’m sure he’d upgrade to think harder and do more iterations and go deeper. Codex for example already does that but could go deeper a bit longer to figure out more.

aaronbrethorst 10mo ago

He did a follow up with someone on Reddit and the answers were posted here: https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeAI/comments/1q2c0ne/comment/nxc4ap6/ 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

hnroo99 10mo ago
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.
- prasoon2211 10mo ago
  iirc he (or his colleague) did mention somewhere on X that most of the PRs are small
- xixixao 10mo ago
  For comparison, I remember doing 250 PRs in 2.5 months of my internship at FB (working on a fullstack web app). So that’s 2-4x faster. What’s interesting is that it’s Boris, not an intern (although the LLM can play an intern well).
- northern-lights 10mo ago
  Because he is working on a product that is hot and has demand from the users for new features/bug fixes/whatnot and also gets visibility on getting such things delivered. Most of us don't work on products that have that on a daily basis.
  - ruszki 10mo ago
    In other words, nobody cares that the generated code is shit, because there is no human who can review that much code. Not even on high level. According to the discussion here, they don’t even care whether the tests are real. They just care about that it’s green. If tests are useless in reality? Who cares, nobody has time to check them! And who will suffer because of this? Who cares, they pray that not them!

baalimago 10mo ago

I'm a bit jealous. I would like to experiment with having a similar setup, but 10x Opus 4.5 running practically non stop must amount to a very high inference bill. Is it really worth the output? From experimentation, I need to coach the models quite closely in order to get enough value. Letting it loose only works when I've given very specific instructions. But I'm using Codex and Clai, perhaps Claude code is better.

UncleOxidant 10mo ago
Yeah, doesn't this guy work for Anthropic? He'd get to use 10x Opus 4.5 for free.
Snakes3727 10mo ago
I have a coworker who is basically doing this right now he leads our team and is second place overall. Regularly runs opus in parallel he alone is burning through 1k worth of credits a day. He is also one of our worst performers.
- h33t-l4x0r 10mo ago
  Wait, what is he second place at?
  - wiseowise 10mo ago
    Credit usage.
Maxion 10mo ago
I've tried running a number of claude's in paralell on a CRUD full stack JS app. Yes, it got features made faster, yes it definitely did not leave me enough time to acutally look at what they did, yes it definitely produced sub-par code. At the moment with one claude + manually fixing crap it produces I am faster at solving "easier" features (Think add API endpoint, re-build API client, implement frontend logic for API endpoint + UI) faster than if I write it myself. Things that are more logic dense, it tends to produce so many errors that it's faster to solve myself.

ddanieltan 10mo ago

Absolutely shocking... Boris uses a light themed terminal?! Kidding aside, these were great tips. I am quite intrigued by the handing off of local Claude sessions to the web version. I wonder if this feature exists for the other Coding CLI agents.

cube00 10mo ago

It'd be nice if he explained the cost to be running 10 agents all day.

Strongbad536 10mo ago
he's probably on the max plan ;)
HarHarVeryFunny 10mo ago
Yeah... I had a fairly in-depth conversation with Claude a couple of days ago about Claude Code and the way it works, and usage limits, and comparison to how other AI coding tools work, and the extremely blunt advice from Claude was that Claude Code was not suitable for serious software development due to usage limits! (props to Anthropic for not sugar coating it!) Maybe on the Max 20x plan it becomes viable, and no doubt on the Boris Cherny unlimited usage plan it does, but it seems that without very aggressive non-stop context pruning you will rapidly hit limits and the 5-hour timeout even working with a single session, let alone 5 Claude Code sessions and another 5-10 web ones! The key to this is the way that Claude Code (the local part) works and interacts with Claude AI (the actual model, running in the cloud). Basically Claude Code maintains the context, comprising mostly of the session history, contents of source files it has accessed, and the read/write/edit tools (based on Node.js) it is providing for Claude AI. This entire context, including all files that have been read, and the tools definitions, are sent to Claude AI (eating into your token usage limit) with EVERY request, so once Claude Code has accessed a few source files then the content of those files will "silently" be sent as part of every subsequent request, regardless of what it is. Claude gave me an example of where with 3 smallish files open (a few thousand lines of code), then within 5 requests the token usage might be 80,000 or so, vs the 40,000 limit of the Pro plan or 200,000 limit of the Max 5x plan. Once you hit limit then you have to wait 5 hours for a usage reset, so without Cherny's infinite usage limit this becomes a game of hurry up and wait (make 5 requests, then wait 5 hours and make 5 more). You can restrict what source files Claude Code has access to, to try to manage context size (e.g. in a C++ project, let it access all the .h module definition files, but block all the .cpp ones) as well as manually inspecting the context all the time to see what is being sent that can be removed. I believe there is some automatic context compaction happening periodically too, but apparently not enough to prevent many/most people hitting usage time outs when working on larger projects. Not relevant here, but Claude also explained how Cursor manages to provide fast/cheap autocomplete using it's own models by building a vector index of the code base to only pull relevant chunks of code into the context.

TheTaytay 10mo ago

This was extremely useful to read for many reasons, but my favorite thing I learned is that you can “teleport” a task FROM the local Claude Code to Claude Code on the web by prepending your request with “&”. That makes it a “background” task, which I initially erroneously thought was a local background task. Turns out it sends the task and conversation history up to the web version. This allows you to do work in other branches on Claude Code web, (and then teleport those sessions back down to local later if you wish)

jauntywundrkind 10mo ago
OpenCode is actually client server architecture. Typically one either runs the TUI or the web interface. I wonder if it would cope ok with running multiple interfaces at once? Neovim has a decade old feature request for multiple clients to be able to connect to it. No traction alas. Always a great superpower to have, if you can hack it. https://github.com/neovim/neovim/issues/2161 https://github.com/neovim/neovim/issues/2161 Chrome DevToops Protocol added multiple client support maybe 5 years ago? It's super handy there because automation tools also use the same port. So you couldn't automate and debug at the same time! That is a really tool ability, to move work between different executors. OpenCode is also super good at letting you open an old session & carry on, so you can switch between. I appreciate the mention; I love the mobile ambient aspect of how Claude Code can teleport this all!!
- behnamoh 10mo ago
  > Neovim has a decade old feature request for multiple clients to be able to connect to it. No traction alas. Why cram all features into one giant software instead of using multiple smaller pieces of software in conjunction? For the feature you mentioned I just use tmux which is built for this stuff. Also, OpenCode has been extremely unreliable. I opened a PR about one of the simplest tools ever: `ls`, and they haven't fixed it yet. In a folder, their ls doesn't actually do what you'd expect: if iterates over all files of all folders (200 limit) and shows them to the model...
- LorenzoGood 10mo ago
  > Neovim has a decade old feature request for multiple clients to be able to connect to it. No traction alas. Always a great superpower to have, if you can hack it. https://github.com/neovim/neovim/issues/ https://github.com/neovim/neovim/issues/ I do this to great effect with Emacs daemon mode.

ej88 10mo ago

I implemented some of his setup and have been loving it so far. My current workflow is typically 3-5 Claude Codes in parallel - Shallow clone, plan mode back and forth until I get the spec down, hand off to subagent to write a plan.md - Ralph Wiggum Claude using plan.md and skills until PR passes tests, CI/CD, auto-responds to greptile reviews, prepares the PR for me to review - Back and forth with Claude for any incremental changes or fixes - Playwright MCP for Claude to view the browser for frontend I still always comb through the PRs and double check everything including local testing, which is definitely the bottleneck in my dev cycles, but I'll typically have 2-4 PRs lined up ready for me at any moment.

dbbk 10mo ago
Do you prefer Playwright or the Chrome MCP?
firemelt 10mo ago
3-5 parallel claude code, do they work at same repo? do they work on same features/goals?
- ej88 10mo ago
  We have a giant monorepo, hence the shallow clones. Each Claude works on its own feature / bug / ticket though, sometimes in the same part of the codebase but usually in different parts (my ralph loop has them resolve any merge conflicts automatically). I also have one Claude running just for spelunking through K8s, doing research, or asking questions about the codebase I'm unfamiliar with.

llmslave2 10mo ago

Couple things stand out to me: 1) everyone on the team uses Claude code differently. 2) Claude Code has been around for almost a year and is being built by an entire team, yet doesn't seem to have benefited from this approach. The program is becoming buggier and less reliable over time, and development speed seems indistinguishable from anything else. 3) Everything this person says should be taken with a massive grain of salt considering their various conflicts of interest.

nmfisher 10mo ago
(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.
- johnfn 10mo ago
  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.
  - jen20 10mo ago
    Are you sure it's _not_ VS Code at issue here? I haven't seen this in Ghostty.
    - johnfn 10mo ago
      I use the VSCode terminal all day every day. No other app I use in it has this issue, including Codex.
      - coldtea 10mo ago
        OK, so you have the unbearable pain of using a separate terminal app to use the magic thingie that does your programming for you on prompt, and which didn't exist merely 2 years ago. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kBLkX2VaQs4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kBLkX2VaQs4

jedberg 10mo ago

The funniest part of that whole thing was when someone said "I trusted you, but you use light mode on your terminal" and then he replied that people stop by his desk daily just to make fun of him for it.

sschueller 10mo ago
Everyone was making fun of me in the 2000s for using a dark terminal and IDE...
stack_framer 10mo ago
I also use light mode in my terminal. Mock me at your leisure. :)
- indemnity 10mo ago
  Another convert back to the light from the darkness here. My eyes are getting old. Black text on white background is more legible/clear.
ramraj07 10mo ago
The irony is that light mode is objectively the correct way to use things.
- jedberg 10mo ago
  I'll assume this isn't a troll, and ask you by objective measures you believe this is true?
  - TheRoque 10mo ago
    For people with astigmatism, black in white is generally easier to read than the other way around: https://graphicdesign.stackexchange.com/questions/15142/which-is-easier-on-the-eyes-dark-on-light-or-light-on-dark https://graphicdesign.stackexchange.com/questions/15142/whic... Of your criteria is battery life, dark mode is most likely better If your criteria is eye damage/strain, then IIRC the research is divided on this topic

zhoujianfu 10mo ago

I actually use dozens of claude codes "in parallel" myself (most are sitting idle for a lot of the time though). I set up a web interface and then made it usable by others at clodhost.com if anybody wants to try it (free)!

scrame 10mo ago

so... what's he actually doing with 10 terminals of claude code?

johnfn 10mo ago
Working on Claude Code?
- cluckindan 10mo ago
  Yo dawg, we heard you like for Code to code Code for you.
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EricRiese 10mo ago

Having the 5 instances going at once sounds like Google Antigravity. I haven't used Claude Code too much. One snag I found is the tendency when running into snags to fix them incorrectly by rolling back to older versions of things. I think it would benefit from an MCP server for say Maven Central. Likewise it should prefer to generate code using things like project scaffolding tooling whenever possible.

Snakes3727 10mo ago

Frankly Claude code is painfully slow. To the point I get frustrated. On large codebases I often find it taking 20+ minutes to do basic things like writing tests. Way too often people are like it takes 2 minutes for it to do a full pr. Yeah how big is the code base actually. I also have a coworker who is about 10x more then everyone else. Burning through credits yet he is one of the lowest performers.{closing in on around 1k worth of credits a day now).

0x500x79 10mo ago
$1,000.00 of credits per-day?? $200,000 per year? Those are bonkers numbers for someone not performing at a high level (on-top of their salary). Do you know what they are doing?
- Snakes3727 10mo ago
  Yup. The way he works is all tasks he is issued in a sprint he just fires them through opus in parallel hoping to get a hit on Claude magically solving the ticket having them constantly be iterated on them. He doesnt even try using proper having plans be created. Often time tickets get fleshed out or requirements change. He just throws everything out and reshoves it into Claude. I weep for the planet.
- dbbk 10mo ago
  They should just be on the $200 a month Max plan

sevg 10mo ago

Does anyone know if it’s possible to have “ultrathink” be the default instead of saying it in every prompt?

weird-eye-issue 10mo ago
Put it in CLAUDE.md because that just gets added to the prompt
- sevg 10mo ago
  Ah, thank you! Now I feel like an idiot. I guess I was thinking “ultrathink” was a specially interpreted command within claude code (sort of like a slash command).
Cloudly 10mo ago
https://x.com/bcherny/status/2007892431031988385?s=20 https://x.com/bcherny/status/2007892431031988385?s=20 Seems to be moved to the default now. PSA for anyone who didn't see

buggymcbugfix 10mo ago

> [I'm] the creator of Claude Code. but also > Claude Code works great out of the box, so I personally don't customize it much. Am I the only one to notice the irony of this juxtaposition?

weird-eye-issue 10mo ago
For lots of software unless you really know what you are doing it's best to just leave the default settings alone and not dig too deep into what's not immediately intended to do. For my application lots of bug reports come from people using our advanced settings without reading any of the instructions at all and screwing it up So in the case of him being the creator obviously he built it for his needs
dbbk 10mo ago
What’s ironic? He made a good product that works well without needing to configure it?
- nerevarthelame 10mo ago
  He doesn't need to configure it because he made his preferences the default.

breput 10mo ago

This feels like the desperate, look at me! post, which is the exact opposite of Andrej Karpathy's recent tweet[0] about feeling left behind as a programmer, as covered on Hacker News[1]. I guess would want to see how sustainable this 5 parallel AI effort is, and are there demonstrably positive outcomes. There are plenty of "I one-shotted this" examples of something that already (mostly) existed, which are very impressive in their own right, but I haven't seen a lot of truly novel creations. [0] https://x.com/karpathy/status/2004607146781278521 https://x.com/karpathy/status/2004607146781278521 [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46395714 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46395714

byopic 10mo ago
Needlessly condescending post of someone sharing their self-proclaimed vanilla setup of iterm with a handful of tabs. But hey, if it makes you happy.
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weird-eye-issue 10mo ago
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 creating new projects). For example if I had it work on a feature and then I realized there was a bug or an adjustment in the same files that needed to be made then I can just go back to that tab hours or maybe even days later without digging through history
- breput 10mo ago
  > 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 a lot of PRs.

tmerr 10mo ago

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 things at once given the limits of human working memory. It's like someone is claiming they unlocked ultimate productivity by washing dishes, in parallel with doing laundry, and cleaning their house. Likely I am missing something. This is just my gut reaction as someone who has definitely not mastered using agents. Would love to hear from anyone that has a similar workflow where there is high parallelism.

baby 10mo ago
I usually have 4-5, but it's because they are working on different parts of the codebase, or some I will use as read only to brainstorm
quijoteuniv 10mo ago
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.”
- tuananh 10mo ago
  maybe more like throw shits to the wall and see what sticks?
- MattGaiser 10mo ago
  Do you generally only have one problem? For me the use case is that I have numerous needs and Claude frees up time to work on some of the more complicated ones.
stoneforger 10mo ago
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.

varun_chopra 10mo ago

It would be very interesting to see the outputs of his operations. How productive is one of his agents? How long does it take to complete a task, and how often does it require steering? I'm a bit of a skeptic. Claude Code is good, but I've had varied results during my usage. Even just 5 minutes ago, I asked CC to view the most recent commit diff using git show. Even when I provided the command, it was doing dumb shit like git show --stat and then running wc for some reason... I've been working on something called postkit[1], which has required me to build incrementally on a codebase that started from nothing and has now grown quite a lot. As it's grown, Claude Code's performance has definitely dipped. [1] https://github.com/varunchopra/postkit https://github.com/varunchopra/postkit

janwillemb 10mo ago

He is singlehandedly responsible for using up an entire city's worth of power and water this way?

wiseowise 10mo ago
It’s his marketing budget.

heliumtera 10mo ago

Why stop at 5-10? Make it 5 billion - 10 billion parallel agents. PR number go up

bizzleDawg 10mo ago

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)?

TheRoque 10mo ago
Did you manage to make proper reviews of all the 30 PR ?
- djeastm 10mo ago
  I think we all know the answer to that.
- bizzleDawg 10mo ago
  I have formal requirements for all implemented code. This is all on relatively greenfield solo developed codebases with tools I know inside out (Django, click based cli etc) so yes. Thanks so much for your concern, internet person!
  - TheRoque 10mo ago
    I was genuinely interested in knowing if you did it properly or not, since I read a lot of tales like this but don't understand how it can be true.
firemelt 10mo ago
what cc plan do you use? the20$?
- bizzleDawg 10mo ago
  Max 5x ($100)

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ahmadyan 10mo ago

I had this ShowHN yesterday, which didn't grab much attention, so i'm using this opportunity as it seems relevant (it is a solution for running CC in parallel) if you folks like to run parallel claude-code sessions, and like native terminal like Ghostty, i have a solution for using Git Worktree natively with Ghostty, it is called agentastic.dev, and it has a built-in Worktree/IDE/Diff/Codereview around Ghostty (macos only for now). Would be happy to answer any questions ShowHN post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46501758 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46501758

copperx 10mo ago

I'm afraid to ask, but because I've been very happy with Codex 5.2 CLI and I can't imagine Claude Code doing better, why is it Claude so loved around here? Sure, I can spend $20 and figure it out, but I already pay $40/mo for two ChatGPT subs and that's enough to get me through a month. Should I spend $20 to see for myself?

mccoyb 10mo ago
It codes faster and with more abandon. For good results, mix Claude Code with Codex (preferably high or xhigh reasoning) for reviews.
- copperx 10mo ago
  Thanks. The reason for my hesitancy is that I've heard that the $20 sub isn't enough for anything meaningful.
dboon 10mo ago
Why are you asking this? Just try it. It takes maybe fifteen minutes of your time. It’s $20. There is no possible argument against $20 or fifteen minutes if the tool has a chance of being even just 10% better. You’ve spent more time typing by the comment and I responding than it would take to…just try it…
cantalopes 10mo ago
If you spend only 20 on claude code you will not get far, it will lock you out after about hour of work for session usage limits
- Melonai 10mo ago
  How much would you consider a good amount? I can't really afford more than 20$ myself, but perhaps there's a better more monetarily-optimal workflow.
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cantalopes 10mo ago

That's just unrealistic. If i were to use it like this as an actual end user i would get stopped by rate limits/those weekly / session limits instantly

mips_avatar 10mo ago

One thing that’s helped me is creating a bake-off. I’ll do it between Claude and codex. Same prompt but separate environments. They’ll both do their thing and then I’ll score them at the end. I find it helps me because frequently only one of them makes a mistake, or one of them finds an interesting solution. Then once I declare a winner I have scripts to reset the bake-off environments.

baq 10mo ago
you can have them review each other's work, too.

mks_shuffle 10mo ago

How much Codex and Claude Code are different from each other? I have been using Codex for few weeks doing experiments related to data analysis and training models with some architecture modifications. I wouldn't say I have used it extensively, but so far my experience has been good. Only annoying part has been not able to use GPU in the Codex without using `--sandbox danger-full-access` flag. Today, I started using Claude Code, and ran similar experiments as Codex. I find the interface is quite similar to Codex. However, I hit the limit quite quickly in Claude Code. I will be exploring its features further. I would appreciate if anyone can share their experience of using both tools.

mike_hearn 10mo ago
Codex is heavily inspired by Claude Code. They aren't that different. They might diverge more in future.
- dbbk 10mo ago
  They are quite different, Claude Code with Opus 4.5 is miles better than Codex
  - mike_hearn 10mo ago
    What is it you find makes it much better?

omnicognate 10mo ago

I tried Claude Code a while back when I decided to give "vibe-coding" a go. That was was actually quite successful, producing a little utility that I use to this day, completely without looking at the code. (Well, I did briefly glance at it after completion and it made my eyeballs melt.) I concluded the value of this to me personally was nowhere near the price I was charged so I didn't continue using it, but I was impressed nonetheless. This brief use of Claude Code was done mostly on a train using my mobile phone's wi-fi hotspot. Since the connection would be lost whenever the train went through a tunnel, I encountered a bug in Claude Code [1]. The result of it was that whenever the connection dropped and came up again I had to edit an internal json file it used to track the state of its tool use, which had become corrupt. The issue had been open for months then, and still is. The discussion under it is truly remarkable, and includes this comment from the devs: > While we are always monitoring instances of this error and and looking to fix them, it's unlikely we will ever completely eliminate it due to how tricky concurrency problems are in general. Claude Code is, in principle, a simple command-line utility. I am confident that (given the backend and model, ofc) I could implement the functionality of it that I used in (generously!) at most a few thousand lines of python or javascript, I am very confident that I could do so without introducing concurrency bugs and I am extremely confident that I could do it without messing up the design so badly that concurrency issues crop up continually and I have to admit to being powerless to fix them all. Programming is hard, concurrency problems are tricky and I don't like to cast aspersions on other developers, but we're being told this is the future of programming and we'd better get on board or be left behind and it looks like we're being told this by people who, with presumably unlimited access to all this wonderful tooling, don't appear to be able to write decent software. [1] https://github.com/anthropics/claude-code/issues/6836 https://github.com/anthropics/claude-code/issues/6836

rdiddly 10mo ago

I feel like it's time for me to hang up this career. Prompting is boring, and doing it 5 times at once is just annoying multitasking. I know I'm mostly in it for the money, but at least there used to be a feeling of accomplishment sometimes. Now it's like, whose accomplishment is it?

webdev1234568 10mo ago
Don't give up to the facade just yet. This is the creator of a product saying how good it is. If you've worked anywhere professionally you know how every place has its problems, where people just lie constantly about things? Yeah. Keep at it and see where things go. I'm also a dev a bit overwhelmed by all of this talk, at my job I've tried quite a few things and I'm still mostly just using copilot for auto complete and very small tasks that I review throughly, everything else is manually. If this is indeed the future I also don't wanna be a part of it and will switch to another career, but all this talk seems to come only from the people who actually built these things.
tkel 10mo ago
Agreed, the author basically says that coding is not required anymore, the job is reviewing code. Do engineers not actually want to build things themselves anymore? Where is the joy and pride in the craft? Are we just supposed to maximize productivity at the expense of our life's experience? Are we any different than machines at that point?
- brysonreece 10mo ago
  I feel like it’s not talked about enough that the ultimate irony of software engineering is that, as an industry, it’s aiming to make itself obsolete as much as possible. I struggle to think of any other industry that, completely on their own accord, has actively pushed to put themselves out of work to such a degree.
- fantasizr 10mo ago
  prompting in my experience is boring and/or frustrating. Why anyone would want to do more of that without MASSIVE financial incentives is unthinkable. No composer or writer would ever want to prompt a "work".

closingreunion 10mo ago

Ao this guy is personally responsible for the RAM shortage, it seems. Jokes aside, i have a similar setup, but with a mix of claude and a local model. Claude can access the local model for simple and repetitive tasks, and it actually does a good job on testing UI. Great way to save tokens.

jcsoft 10mo ago

very interesting discussion I don't know how can you keep up with all the comments ^_^ so I create a review with pros and cons https://gist.github.com/notjulian/3a623d7889e5971d4b9fd1aac949b74e https://gist.github.com/notjulian/3a623d7889e5971d4b9fd1aac9...

thetamarind11 10mo ago

Warm take for sure, but I feel that LLMs and agents have made me a worse programmer as a whole. I am enjoying the less mental strain as I do my hobbies like sketching/art while the LLM is running. But definitely it isn't making me any faster. I'm at the point of considering another job but I just fear that my skills have deteriorated to the point that I can't pass any (manual) coding assessments anymore

callamdelaney 10mo ago

I have to say it sounds insane. 5 tabs of claude, back and forth from terminal to browser - and no actual workflow detailed. Are we to believe that claude is making changes in parallel to one codebase, and if so - why?

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nikanj 10mo ago

"My setup might be surprisingly vanilla! Claude Code works great out of the box, so I personally don't customize it much. " Well, of course he doesn't need to customize it. It's already working the way he wants it, seeing as how he created it

oulipo2 10mo ago

Let's stop linking to a pedophile-enabling website like X please

jumploops 10mo ago

I’ve found that experienced devs use agentic coding in a more “hands-on” way than beginners and pure vibe-coders. Vibecoders are the best because they push the models in humorous and unexpected ways. Junior devs are like “I automated the deploy process via an agent and this markdown file” Seasoned devs will spend more time writing the prompt for a bug fix, or lazily paste the error and then make the 1-line change themselves. The current crop of LLMs are more powerful than any of these use cases, and it’s exciting to see experienced devs start to figure that out (I’m not stanning Gas Town[0], but it’s a glimpse of the potential). [0]https://steve-yegge.medium.com/welcome-to-gas-town-4f25ee16dd04 https://steve-yegge.medium.com/welcome-to-gas-town-4f25ee16d...

Melonai 10mo ago
Partially related: I really dislike the vibe of Gas Town, both the post and the tool, I really hope this isn't what the future looks like. It just feels disappointing.

vemv 10mo ago

How has Claude Code (as a CLI tool, not the backing models) evolved over the last year? For me it's practically the same, except for features that I don't need, don't work that well and are context-hungry. Meanwhile, Claude Code still doesn't know how to jump to a dependency (library's) source to obtain factual information about it. Which is actually quite easy by hand (normally it's cd'ing into a directory or unzipping some file). So, this wasteful workflow only resulted in vibecoded, non-core features while at the domain level, Claude Code remains overly agnostic if not stupid.

kingkongjaffa 10mo ago

The amount of people holding strong opinions on LLMs who openly admit they have not tried the state of the art tools is so high on Hacker news right now, that it's refreshing to get actual updates from the tool's creators. I read a comment yesterday that said something like "many people tried LLMs early on, it was kind of janky and so they gave up, thinking LLMs are bad". They were probably right at the time, but the tech _has_ improved since then, while those opinions have not changed much. So, yes claude code and sonnet/opus 4.5 is another step change that you should try out. For $20/month you can run claude code in the terminal and regular claude on the web app.

PeterStuer 10mo ago

10-15 parallel Opus 4.5 instances running almost full-time? Even if you could get it, what would be the monthly bill for that?

Syzygies 10mo ago
One of my side projects has been to recover a K&R C computer algebra system from the 1980's, port to modern 64-bit C. I'd have eight tabs at a time assigned files from a task server, to make passes at 60 or so files. This nearly worked; I'm paused till I can have an agent with a context window that can look at all the code at once. Or I'll attempt a fresh translation based on what I learned. With a $200 monthly Max subscription, I would regularly stall after completing significant work, but this workflow was feasible. I tried my API key for an hour once; it taught me to laugh at the $200 as quite a deal. I agree that Opus 4.5 is the only reasonable use of my time. We wouldn't hire some guy off the fryer line to be our CTO; coding needs best effort. Nevertheless, I thought my setup was involved, but if Boris considers his to be vanilla ice cream then I'm drinking skim milk.

ed_mercer 10mo ago

>Most sessions start in Plan mode I don't get why they added a Plan mode. Even without it, you can just ask claude to "make a plan" from where you can iterate on it. Also is it really that much faster to type "/commit-push-pr" than it is to type "commit, push and make a pr" ?

dbbk 10mo ago
It’s really a convenience to force the model to use the planning tool and it prevents edit/write tools until the user approves the plan, like an inverse of “auto accept edits” mode.
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unforbiddenYet 10mo ago

The PostToolUse hook tip for formatting Claude's code is the only actual tip here. Everything else reads like marketing copy.

dbbk 10mo ago
That’s in the docs though

mattacular 10mo ago

Absolute madness and no thank you. Have others not noticed the extremely obvious astroturfing campaign specifically promoting Claude code that is mostly happening on X in recent days/weeks?

brazukadev 10mo ago

I'm a heavy claude code user but this is starting to smell like BS. There is nothing special in claude code, opus is a good model and with lots of requests it can give good results. There is nothing unique to it.

qwertox 10mo ago

How come that Claude Code isn't open source? I can't imagine that it has some kind of special access to Anthropic's servers and that it does things an API-user can't do, maybe except for the option to use the Claude.ai credits/quota. Even their Agent SDK just wraps the `claude`-executable, IIRC.

rebridge 10mo ago

Boris is a power user's power user. I would highly recommend every project maintain a simple, well-written AGENTS.md file. At first it may seem like a more nitpicky README, but you will quickly see how much coding agents benefit from this added context. Imo, the two most important things to include in AGENTS.md are frequent commands and verification methods. A third thing I've started adding to my projects is a list of related documentation and libraries that may not be immediately obvious. Things like confluence pages and other repos associated with the project.

lifetimerubyist 10mo ago

I'm sure this works for people and I'm happy for them but this sounds like absolute hell to me. Just take out everything that I like about SWE and then just leave me to do the stuff I hate.

mrichman 10mo ago

Bun is the new Yarn?

newsoftheday 10mo ago

Another Claude related article. It's starting to feel like spam now.

firemelt 10mo ago

why he open multiple tab? is it means he gives multiple task to them?

firemelt 10mo ago
it means he develope 5 to 10 features for same repo

zen4ttitude 10mo ago

What I find surprising is how much human intervention the creator of Claude uses. Every time Claude does something bad we write it in claude.md so he learns from it... Why not create an agent to handle this and learn automatically from previous implementations. B: Outcome Weighting # memory/store.py OUTCOME_WEIGHTS = { RunOutcome.SUCCESS: 1.0, # Full weight RunOutcome.PARTIAL: 0.7, # Some issues but shipped RunOutcome.FAILED: 0.3, # Downweighted but still findable RunOutcome.CANCELLED: 0.2, # Minimal weight } # Applied during scoring: final_score = score * decay_factor * outcome_weight C: Anti-Pattern Retrieval # Similar features → SUCCESS/PARTIAL only similar_features = store.search(..., outcome_filter=[SUCCESS, PARTIAL]) # Anti-patterns → FAILED only (separate section) anti_patterns = store.search(..., outcome_filter=[FAILED]) Injected into agent prompt: ## Similar Past Features (Successful) 1. "Add rate limiting with Redis..." (Outcome: success, Score: 0.87) ## Anti-Patterns (What NOT to Do) _These similar attempts failed - avoid these approaches:_ 1. "Add rate limiting with in-memory..." (FAILED, Score: 0.72) ## Watch Out For - **Redis connection timeout**: Set connection pool size The flow now: Query: "Add rate limiting" │ ├──► Similar successful features (ranked by outcome × decay × similarity) │ ├──► Failed attempts (shown as warnings) │ └──► Agent sees both "what worked" AND "what didn't"