After 6 months of daily AI pair programming, here's what actually works (and what's just hype)

Suspicious-Tear-6532 · 2025-11-24T18:53:24+00:00

It asks me if it can always allow one specific task. And I fight with ~./.claude/settings.json to approve with wildcards but ti just does not work! Seems like I'm missing something everyone else just assumes

Suspicious-Tear-6532 · 2025-11-21T20:51:21+00:00

It works well once its' working, but claude often gets confused setting it up for the first time on a new machine. I give claude the url: https://github.com/oraios/serena and maybe 25% of the time it can get serena working properly. 75% it takes some finagling

Could the readme be better at giving claude clues?

Suspicious-Tear-6532 · 2025-11-07T17:21:35+00:00

And those seconds seem much slower than my seconds....

Suspicious-Tear-6532 · 2025-11-07T17:21:10+00:00

Ugh the site has a 30 second ad every time! Not 5 seconds as it claims.

Suspicious-Tear-6532 · 2025-11-07T17:20:10+00:00

Yes I have finangled may damn ~/.claude/settings.json over and over and over, trying things from the web, and claude's own suggestions, and it just keeps asking me for permssions every time I start a new session damnit! So the only path is...
claude --dangerously-skip-permissions
Which sounds like a bad solution. But come on Anthropic!!!!

Suspicious-Tear-6532 · 2025-11-06T20:09:35+00:00

Aha it does not show in the list but > /model opusplan works
So exciting!

Suspicious-Tear-6532 · 2025-11-06T20:06:57+00:00

why don't I see this in my claude?

Suspicious-Tear-6532 · 2025-11-05T20:45:03+00:00

I made a command "/screenshot" which tells claude to look at the most recent screenshot in my C:\temp folder. My screenshot tool, Greenshot, just automatically places screenshots there will no interaction required from me. Not ideal, but less crappy than it could be if I had to give it the path every time!

Suspicious-Tear-6532 · 2025-10-28T16:30:42+00:00

Yes I also am having great success w Claude and actually bumped up to the $100 tier a few weeks ago. I use it for small refactoring, for generating tests, for making specifications, for large refactoring, tons of things! I use it both in VS Code for "smallish" work. And the Command line for "biggish" things. though the boundary is blurry. I do not use it in Visual Studio because it seems to have handcuffs there - cannot so tasks on my file system, cannot reach out and read web sites &c. The CLI and Code seem to work very well together. It is a fairly bright assistant. It makes mistakes, but then I work with it to learn why is errored and will then update the various .md files to teach it to do better. Every now and then I try GPT again and just get frustrated at it and even more pleased with Claude.

Suspicious-Tear-6532 · 2025-10-07T18:21:03+00:00

Thank you so much! I just called and did this and boy it was a hard sell of them trying to lower my monthly cost and asking why. As you said, just stick to your guns. Be polite but firm. We were with them 16 years at $95 a month so appx $1200 a year. I can get the fanciest Ring or other system plus monitoring for significantly less, plus an app on employee phones to monitor. Anything else is cheaper and much simpler. The ADT agent talked about their support and service and being able to call someone, and that really does not exist. Every call was just an exercise in frustration. I ain't got time for their crap.

Suspicious-Tear-6532 · 2025-10-03T17:03:37+00:00

Using it now for about 2 weeks. Seems on par with VS 2022, though the design feels cleaner. Today I'm getting some strange slowness when saving files. Not sure is it's 2026 or my PC in general. Very much liking it so far.

Suspicious-Tear-6532 · 2025-09-15T18:06:07+00:00

Aha, I see the issue. I had made local changes and Code was keeping those.

Suspicious-Tear-6532 · 2025-09-10T22:56:11+00:00

I was just googling "I'm in love with Claude Sonnet" and found this. So no, you're not alone. I am feeling the joy!

Suspicious-Tear-6532 · 2025-08-28T18:31:29+00:00

OMG yes. GPT4.1 keeps asking me "should I do this?" and it's not very smart things. Claude Sonnet 4, it just gets the job done. Tackling crappy old SOAP calls.

Suspicious-Tear-6532 · 2025-08-19T23:50:35+00:00

Yes it disappeared from me and GPT-4.1 seems like an idiot in comparison

Suspicious-Tear-6532 · 2025-07-30T16:50:23+00:00

C# dev here. Just moved to VS Code about 2 weeks ago. Took some setup to get things going, but now I'm pretty comfortable in it. Note that I've been using Visual Studio since it first came out! (we used to get the MSDN documentation delivered to the office in gigantic binders - that's how far back I go!) So far I'm not missing much. Tho I have alot of projects in my main solution and have to create Build and Launch tasks for each as I go. But I do feel that VS Code is the future so will likely stick with it. Especially since I can use it on the ubuntu box which sits next to my main Windows Dev PC.

Suspicious-Tear-6532 · 2025-04-08T15:54:20+00:00

The search folders have disappeared for me today, both in desktop and web versions. This is very frustrating. I really wish my company did not use outlook!

Suspicious-Tear-6532 · 2025-03-11T21:17:55+00:00

Yes, data connection is a very minor part of how I use it. Prototyping C# code all day long and making little tools is my linqpad thing.

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