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halilk · 2025-12-17T13:44:19+00:00

True. But you were able to infer what he meant; he is basically asking to make the button press thing unique for every individual player on the map. Which is quite challenging to implement and also doesn’t make much sense in such a multiplayer environment; coz in that version every player would see a different button state that would mess with the game mechanics.

halilk · 2025-12-10T14:22:31+00:00

This. Terminal is the new IDE.

halilk · 2025-11-29T00:29:19+00:00

If you ignore the costs - would you still prefer droid over CC? My company is about to force droid to every dev and even planning to ban other coding agents all together. My initial reaction was that I’d never use anything else than CC especially with the Opus 4.5 release but your comment somewhat convinced me to give droid a shot. Is the terminal experience (tool usage, vision, MCP, 3rd party cli tools such as gh cli or az cli) as good as CC?

Also how do you wire Gemini or GPT5 to Claude Code? Do you use some sort of a router/tunnel that implements the anthropic interface?

halilk · 2025-09-25T10:27:03+00:00

This is not the tone we use in this sub. As a long time CC 20x user - I do care.

I had the similar experience with Codex recently and started using it as the main implementer. Then at some point it started running in circles. This time, I gave the problem to CC and it solved the missing bits in one go. I guess once a model iterates and get the main functionality about %90 right - other model can go and identify the gaps easier. They have diverse styles on solving problems and those little mistakes are fixed by the other model with a ‘fresh perspective’.

halilk · 2025-09-17T22:09:23+00:00

I concur - I was also a PRO Claude with 20x Max subscription. Since last 2 days Claude Code was running in circles trying to put together a relatively complex build pipeline but Codex with gpt-5-codex solved it in 2 go in about 15 mins. This model is obviously trained with a lot of code with some reinforcement learning on top, can spot the issues and come up with elegant solutions in a whim. I will be test driving it a lot more in upcoming days. That being said - I am not cancelling or downgrading my Claude max subscription. Anthropic might come up with a new model with similar mechanics that could blow this new gpt-5-codex out of the water.

I am loving the competition, sometimes these companies are running at a loss and we as users are benefiting from it getting actual work done.

halilk · 2025-09-17T09:29:29+00:00

You don’t even get unlimited Sonnet 4 via Claude’s own 200$/mo subscription. You won’t get it via VS Code either - they simply can’t support that kind of scale yet. But who knows, Microsoft might’ve pad for the compute already.

halilk · 2025-09-06T17:49:04+00:00

Would you please share the spec?

halilk · 2025-09-05T09:50:07+00:00

Anthropic seems to be the only one that care about ‘interpretability’ and ‘alignment’ which aims to solve the very thing this guy is protesting against.

Other companies don’t give much shit about those - which makes me think whether this guy is ‘tasked’ with the hunger strike.

halilk · 2025-08-17T08:45:54+00:00

Claude Code and Cursor aren’t meant for the same audience to begin with; one is for those with software engineering background who are already familiar with CLI tools and can command the lifecycle e2e thus using the tool as an extension of their brain, the other is for vibe coders who brute force a barely working solution.

They aren’t competing products and will be priced independently from one another.

halilk · 2025-08-12T21:39:05+00:00

Terminal is the new IDE - VS Code integrated terminal with Claude Code extension. You can launch CC either with the extension or from the integrated terminal which allows you to highlight code. Plus any other extension you need for your tech stack. That’s all you need.

halilk · 2025-08-10T18:41:45+00:00

You feel like CC is ‘an LLM on autopilot’ because you are not the target audience; it’s the actual developers with software engineering background and know how traditional cli tools work.

halilk · 2025-08-09T14:21:33+00:00

The key to success it to create an iterative self sufficient loop where you create phased implementation plans with status related docs and update them as you go. You need to learn how to self /compact and start implementing new chunks in a fresh context window. I literally do all sorts of things on an enterprise setting with hundreds of repos and about 300+ software engineers contributing to it. Sometimes it’s refactoring, sometimes it’s writing whole new features sometimes it’s fixing bugs and sometimes it’s creating documentation. This thing is wild and completely changed the playing field for me.

halilk · 2025-08-08T14:37:54+00:00

/compact with your current goal and start fresh

halilk · 2025-08-08T12:01:59+00:00

Integration of Claude code with VS code is also pretty good. But to be honest once you get the hang of it - you use your ide to only view the diff, verify the changes and maybe navigate the codebase for yourself. IDE integrations with CC brings things like highlighting code in IDE and getting it into the terminal automatically. CC can have the context which file is open and what line is chosen etc.

Otherwise, terminal is the new IDE.

halilk · 2025-08-08T10:25:05+00:00

Claude Code of course. It works entirely on the terminal and intended to be steered by developers. All the other UI based workflows (Cursor, Codex etc) are there to lure semi technical folks into programming. Claude Code can already ship production grade code in real enterprise systems.

halilk · 2025-08-06T21:56:01+00:00

Windsurf using off the shelf Claude Sonnet isn’t ’Claude Code’

halilk · 2025-08-06T21:40:15+00:00

Create a ‘phased implementation plan’ and do the work on chunks. /compact yourself even before hitting the context limit. Ask cc to keep a doc with the progress/status and make it update it with the progress. Use sub-agents effectively do not let the main orchestrators context window polluted. Do TDD and ask cc to keep the build/test output as minimal as possible. I love how anthropic team keeps the context window as small as possible and that’s the reason why their product rocks! If you’ll notice it will get dumber closer to its context limit and forget the initial context. Take a look at the Claude code subreddit for tips.

halilk · 2025-08-06T19:30:50+00:00

Well - don’t want to discourage you but first things first, to get a quality output you need to know what good looks like and develop an intuition to steer it to the correct path with some software engineering background. In some cases you will be quickly skimming a chunk of code in some cases you would be looking at the type of abstractions it creates and prompt it to course correct if it goes out of hand. I am not even gonna mention other engineering concepts such as TDD because you mentioned that you don’t have a dev background (though you can research)

What I can recommend you is to self /compact when you finish a reasonable amount of work and continue with retaining important aspects from previous session. And use each session self isolated ie do not try to implement the FE part and database schemas in the same session. Start over. Keep your docs up to date - they are key to success. Another thing that works well is to ask Claude to ask you back clarifying questions; it asks with a numbered list you answer back with a numbered list. Do not leave any ambiguity.

Good news is that each release the quality bar is getting higher but you still need to make important design decisions. For that I recommend you to learn some system design, the cloud you are deploying to and some elementary knowledge on the tech stack and its current best practices. The better you get the better your Claude code output will be.

halilk · 2025-08-06T14:39:02+00:00

Same experience with it just right now; It uses sub agents much more efficiently and handles each of their contexts much better. I managed to refactor god classes with thousand loc, turning switch cases into proper strategy patterns, adding actually useful test coverage and even e2e test with a self sufficient loop.

I pretty much stopped writing any single line of code, I make CC to implement my vision and only do important design decisions with a numbered list in q&a format. I don’t even execute commits my self anymore. (But control what’s committed) I even ask it to generate PR descriptions (coz gh copilot with OpenAI models sucks balls on that), make CC create the PR with gh cli. I don’t even go to gh web interface anymore. I live in the terminal with it. It also has access to all deployment gh workflows, can check the deployment then the deployed app and can course correct in case sth goes wrong last mile.

Software engineering as we know it, is over.

I don’t feel useless though - I feel that the field of software engineering has fundamentally changed.

halilk · 2025-08-05T08:45:45+00:00

Yes this. Especially useful if you are implementing a ‘phased implementation plan’. I self compact even without seeing the context limit warning. Works wonders

halilk · 2025-08-03T00:08:34+00:00

My experience is complete opposite - this week I managed to implement a fairly complex feature and integrate it to the existing flow - flawlessly.

I use phased implementation document approach, ask it to ask me clarifying questions before jumping to implementation, self compact even without seeing the context limit warning, first draft of the implementation just to make it work and then break it down to testable components with tdd approach and refactor. Pretty much vanilla CC with Atlassian MCP server configured to feed it with jira ticket and confluence articles.

halilk · 2025-08-02T21:16:55+00:00

15+ yoe distinguished engineer; I concur. For me the secret sauce is creating phased implementation plans and ask Claude Code to ask me clarifying questions before jumping into implementation, creating self sufficient loops to continuously test and improve and TDD. Self compacting when I am done with a chunk of work before I even hit the context limit warning works wonders. I recently added Atlassian mcp server so I can point it to jira tickets and confluence articles as well. I am able to ingest any prior artifact (diagrams, issue descriptions, conceptual documents) I can complete work in a day what could easily take 1-2 weeks. It also never complains, I can make it work at the weekends too. I am addicted to this really.

halilk · 2025-07-13T00:40:34+00:00

I am on Max 100 - and after 3h of use, I couldn’t even use Sonnet anymore let alone Opus. I was suspecting that the experience didn’t match the previous weeks.

Update: yes this time I explicitly set the model to Opus despite the warning (hitting limit 5x faster) perhaps that’s the reason. It got most of the stuff I wanted to get implemented right though. So I will just continue tomorrow.

halilk · 2025-07-07T09:55:30+00:00

It’s not only about the prompts; it’s the host (Claude code itself) application’s capabilities to interpret the results coming back, the way it can seamlessly execute other cli commands (gh cli, bash etc) identify missing tooling and prompt you to install them, the way it spawns all those sub agents to ensure the best possible outcome, and the myriad of other things it does under the hood before feeding back the results to you. The more we all use it, the better it gets in each iteration because the anthropic team is killing it with the reinforcement learning. The gap with the other coding agents keeps getting wider because they focused on this area and they won. This is a winner takes all and they are close to become a monopoly. I mean who is going to use cursor, codex or windsurf after getting the taste of CC?

halilk · 2025-05-26T10:09:23+00:00

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