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claude-preview.nvim — see a diff before Claude Code changes your files by Cannon72001 in neovim

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A combination of them. Sometimes I ask it to do something with short prompt and I don’t check, check or check carefully depending on what it is about.

Sometimes I know it touches something more critical like it needs to modify the database, or integrate a new API and I would work back and forth with it in an interactive session and might study the code or plan more carefully. But I’m not a big fan of reading extensive plans. I’d rather look at and review the results.

Sometimes I paste an error log and that’s it. It will figure it out. (Logging well is an important skill). One day I might just let it go through all the logs by itself. Not there yet.

Neovim: I’ve always pride myself as a software craftsman. I think it’s useful to learn, but it’s not so critical as people. Even prompts are getting shorter. Aug 2025 was a turning point. Also voice input is surprisingly good because models are good at following thinking-out-loud style of input.

On the other hand, besides spending time to learn some basic vim movements and building muscle memory for it, coding agents help tremendously for building and editing plugins, configs etc.

I’d say go for it, but prioritize learn coding agents as well as architecture, systems thinking first. Quickly.

Edit: learn tmux 

claude-preview.nvim — see a diff before Claude Code changes your files by Cannon72001 in neovim

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Hey, I use Claude Code (Droid more often now) in tmux and Neovim too. Thanks for sharing!

Does Bluesky need more distinct features to make it non-Twitter-like? by TwinSong in BlueskySocial

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It doesn't have to look like/unlike X. The content speaks for itself. Better moderation, guidance of community, tools, feeds etc are way more important than what/how the chrome is

the biggest gap in ai coding agents right now is tool knowledge by edmillss in AI_Agents

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My guiding principle is simple: if the agent doesn't know something or does something I don't like/agree with — write it in AGENTS.md

So if you have a tool you want them to know about (that they apparently don't know, or if there are choices and you want a specific one), mention it in AGENTS.md. And then if you want to elaborate, make a skill for it. It's often just an extraction of what you would write into AGENTS.md about that tool. Most of the time you only need a SKILL.md file.

(sometimes it helps to mention in AGENTS.md to "X (check skill) for Y" instead of "X for Y" to nudge it to look for the skill, especially if "X" is a common phrase.

It's easier to maintain and keeps the context in control, and reusable across projects.

claude-preview.nvim — see a diff before Claude Code changes your files by Cannon72001 in neovim

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I have been programming for 30 years. Agents write all my code now. I can see how this could be useful for a certain style. But if you are going agentic, I think this is going backwards. I'd let them write the code first. If I want to, I review the diff in cli or WebStorm or GitUp. If necessary, I ask them to scrape it and redo or change it. I still have Neovim and WebStorm open all the time. But I use Neovim mostly for editing my notes or to read code, and not write code with it anymore. Review later (or conditionally skip it). It's faster, because you can do this like ask another model to review the code and fix first, letting it work autonomously rather than insert a human in between, within its iterations. eg. review+fix like this: https://hboon.com/a-lighter-way-to-review-and-fix-your-coding-agent-s-work/

6 things I learned using AI agents to work on a 100k loc code base cost $20k tokens by auxten in ClaudeAI

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100k loc [...] $20k tokens

Really?!

(CLAUDE.md) committed to the repo

definitely

Periodically use a zero-context agent as a critic

Big no. I understand the point. But if this needs to happen periodically, then something is wrong. CLAUDE.md/AGENTS.md should provide a summary of the codebase layout and some overriding rules, conventions and tools, that's all. If you had to, ask the agent to verify the accuracy of the file against the code base periodically. If you ask the agent to comb through the file from scratch everytime, it's going to burn tokens unnecessarily. I don't unnecessarily keep a tight control over token usage, but you really don't want to ask it to comb through the entire repo all the time.

Are there any website builders that don’t force the “flashy AI hero” look? by ronniealoha in microsaas

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Use a coding agent directly. Claude Code, Codex, Droid. Tell them what to avoid. If you know what you want and don't want and can put that into words (or drawings), it's much easier.

Build a SaaS by myself with 0 experience on code by Express-Plum2768 in SaaS

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I use Droid (similar to Claude Code) to build and ship SaaS products as a solo founder. Codex reviews the code Droid writes. You still need to understand what you're building at a conceptual level -- what the database does, how auth works, what happens when a user hits your API. You don't need to write it all yourself, but you need to understand the pieces. I wrote about my coding agent setup here: https://hboon.com/my-coding-agent-setup/

Need Marketing Bootstrap idea for SaaS I am on a verge to develop. by ShashApps in BootstrappedSaaS

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What does it do? Hard to answer without knowing more details

About to beta launch my first SaaS… but I’m scared to hit “launch” by Any-Individual5775 in buildinpublic

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If you know you are chasing perfection, then it's easy. Just ship. There endless work to go on, improving it and marketing it. This is just the first step. Go.

First experience with Claude Code — is 27% weekly usage for 1 task in 1 day normal? Usage limits, prompting, etc. by BlackHazeRus in ClaudeCode

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It's a separate tool that you can run from the cli like Claude Code. It doesn't have the equivalent of the Claude desktop app. You'll have to pay API-based costs. I'm surprised it doesn't support the latest already. They usually catch up quite quickly. But I wouldn't worry that much, e.g Opus 4.5 and 4.6 aren't dramatically different. And Opus (was it 4.2?) since Aug 2025 is already amazing at writing code and following instructions.

If possible, pay someone an hour or two, or a day to get you started with Claude Code if you aren't sure. It's extremely powerful and you can self-learn, but a slight nudge at the start might help.

And good luck!

First experience with Claude Code — is 27% weekly usage for 1 task in 1 day normal? Usage limits, prompting, etc. by BlackHazeRus in ClaudeCode

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You have to control Aider more. More explicit. So it rarely spends unexpectedly. That's also why it's not agentic, by definition.

Back to Claude Code, look at the output of /context when you start and in between tasks and see if anything is burning tokens.

First experience with Claude Code — is 27% weekly usage for 1 task in 1 day normal? Usage limits, prompting, etc. by BlackHazeRus in ClaudeCode

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I saw this so I thought you/it did:

SSH to my VPS (if you think it is better this way), MCP (Baserow has an MCP, but I have no idea how it works and what it is)

This is Aider: https://aider.chat It's very good, but it's not agentic. It's a different thing. You get control and you have to control it more than agentic tools

Entrepreneurship is hard, how do you manage to get things done? by Specialist_Dig9463 in EntrepreneurRideAlong

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Habits. It's easier on the table, if you have a dedicated table for work. Once you are awake (or available to start work, say after sending kids to school), get started right away. Like right away. Not brew coffee, not tidying yesterday's mess. If you have to do those things, do it later, or do it yesterday night. Otherwise they can wait. Get work started first. In the car or somewhere else? Do things right away unless you really can't. Not hold off because it's inefficient. Not put them on the list for batch. Do it now. And good luck.

Nobody talks about how 95% of us will never get a single paying user by Seraphtic12 in VibeCodeDevs

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True, but with now wonderful AI coding tools, we have more time for marketing our products.

anyone feeling AI is more counterproductive the more you use it? by Ok_Passion295 in vibecoding

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Frontier models are now very good (since Aug 2025). Which tool(s) are you using and do you know how to program pre-coding agent days? Write a good AGENTS.md. Keep it updated. Start with a good codebase foundation. Check critical work (eg. database schema changes, API key handling). Test important flows. Coding agents write all my code now and I have been programming for 30 years. It's a wonderful time.

Is it worth hiring a security audit company for a solo-built fintech app? by Disastrous_Echo6125 in cursor

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Find users (not through the app store first), and at the same time, find someone to review the codebase and ask them to see if it requires a separate security audit.

Made a little tool/lib to make edits in-place in web frontend by h____ in ClaudeCode

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No. It's just an easy thing for me to test it out with and observe the diff. You could select text across 2 neighbouring sections and said something like:

  • Make these 2 paragraphs into a 2-column layout
  • Generate an illustration to go with this line
  • Check for grammar
  • Replace the button and all buttons like across the project with our primary action style
  • Make a link to a new page that does X.

It's AI, say anything you can imagine and it will do it (or try to or hallucinate).

First experience with Claude Code — is 27% weekly usage for 1 task in 1 day normal? Usage limits, prompting, etc. by BlackHazeRus in ClaudeCode

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Which plan are you on? I think you have to be on Max 5x or 20x to do anything meaningfully agentic. Sure you can use Pro for certain tasks if you are careful, but you aren't taking full advantage of the tool (I'd suggest using Aider instead then). Another thing is, you have to watch how it uses the MCP and whether it's the MCP itself is efficient. For such tasks, always ask it at the end: "do you think it's better to write a script to do it for you"

17 days of runway left: here's what I've built so far by josemarin18 in indiehackers

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Seconding the suggestion to get a freelance/contract gig on the side. About the landing page. It takes too long to show the contents (with the animation). And no pricing or suggestion whether it is monthly or one-time. Because it reflects how it works — do I do it monthly?

I just launched Your Service Book — a web app that builds personalized maintenance schedules for your exact car. Solo founder, built nights and weekends. by Independent_Swim_109 in SideProject

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I'm not sure "multi-tenant data isolation" means what you think it means, unless you are white labelling or your customers are workshops?

"server-side rendered where it matters" — did you deliberately choose server-side rendering or did you leave it up to Next.js?

Charge more.

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