This is why Claude Code only runs in docker for me. Never on the host. Same is true for anything from npm.
Readit Newschristophilus commented on Claude CLI deleted my home directory and wiped my Mac old.reddit.com/r/ClaudeAI... · Posted by u/tamnd
Who cares what some framework guy thinks. When I was writing JavaScript for employment most people doing that work were hyper concerned with how to write code and what other people thought about it. These kinds of opinions and conversations are critically important for beginners, but junior and senior developers never seemed to get past these concerns of basic literacy.
When other developers and non-developers look at JavaScript developers as small children it’s because the maturity difference is very evident from the outside. Once developers get past basic literacy they are free to worry about architecture, performance, scale, platform independence, and more. For most JavaScript developers they just expect some framework to do it for them.
Dunno. Your comment seems pretty immature and strangely emotional. If you think you’re too good for these sorts of articles and this sort of tech, then maybe you’re also too good for the related discussion.
What do you mean? Jsdoc has it
I think he’s saying that only JSDoc has it. Vanilla TS doesn’t.
christophilus commented on Claude Code's DX is too good. And that's a problem bharath.sh/writing/claude... · Posted by u/lnbharath
“Better than me” != “good”
I know approximately nothing about approximately everything. Claude seems pretty good at those things. But in every case I’ve used Claude Code for something I do know about it’s been unsatisfactory as a solo operator. It’s not useless, but it is basically useless for anything serious unless you’re very actively guiding it.
I think it has a lot of potential value and will become more useful over time, but it’ll be most useful when we can confidently understand the limitations.
I know a lot about Typescript and its ecosystem. I’ve taught it to students, and worked on it at companies whose names you’d recognize. Claude Code is better than I am at some things that I know deeply, in some cases. It does stupid things on occasion (like use global mutable state), but it is still more useful than not. So, I guess it depends on how you define “better”, but I’ve learned things I didn’t know, and it allows me to do projects and experiments that I’d otherwise be too lazy to do.
christophilus commented on Claude Code's DX is too good. And that's a problem bharath.sh/writing/claude... · Posted by u/lnbharath
The example in the article of letting Claude deploy the app worries me. It has me thinking of that line, “AI is really good until you know what you’re talking about.” If the author was clueless of how to deploy the app, how do they know the app was deployed safely or securely?
Just this past week I asked Claude for some help with C++ and a library I was somewhat unfamiliar with. What it produced looked great—-if you didn’t know C++ very well. It turned out Claude knew even less about this library than I did, generating tons of code that was completely incorrect. I eventually solve my problem through research and trial and error, and it was nothing like what Claude recommended. It certainly didn’t leave me feeling confident enough to let the LLM have the level of control over my computer or project that the author is allowing it in the article.
I’m not looking forward to a future spending all my time cleaning up the messes LLM’s create.
I agree you need to know what you’re doing. But Claude Code is definitely better than I am at some things- probably the most important of which is starting some mundane task that I would otherwise procrastinate indefinitely.
It’s very good at Typescript, search, and research, but still does stupid stuff and requires review and steering.
I don’t get into the same flow while using it, either, but I think that might be a matter of time. I find it allows me to spend more of my time thinking at a higher level. I could see myself learning to really enjoy that. Code review is exhausting, though, and has always been my least favorite aspect of the job. It seems my future is going to be code-review-heavy, and that is probably the biggest drawback.
christophilus commented on Denmark sees US as potential security concern cnn.com/2025/12/10/europe... · Posted by u/pjmlp
Same country that spied on Europe on direct orders of the USA. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Dunhammer
So, they have inside knowledge about how dangerous we can be?
If I was in charge of any nation, I would want sovereignty over critical technology. I’d be suspicious of the US, China, Europe, Israel, etc. Even though some of those are my allies, I still would want to keep them firmly in their own borders and have critical production and knowledge within my own country.
The Trump administration has caused a lot of countries to question their reliance on the US, but the reality is, they should have always questioned that.
christophilus commented on Are we stuck with the same Desktop UX forever? [video] youtube.com/watch?v=1fZTO... · Posted by u/joelkesler
No, we’re not. Niri + Dank Material Shell is a different and mostly excellent approach.
christophilus commented on Ask HN: How can I get better at using AI for programming? · Posted by u/lemonlime227
Opus 4.5 is the highest quality code I've seen out of LLMs, still some way to go to match programmers who care, but much better than most people. I find it enough to let it write the code and then manually polish it afterwards.
Same. It is finally almost always more productive for me to use vs doing it myself. What this means for my career and life, I don’t know. But, I do think the job for most of us is going to look very different moving forward.
christophilus commented on I tried Gleam for Advent of Code blog.tymscar.com/posts/gl... · Posted by u/tymscar
One thing im wondering with the LLM age we seem to be entering: is there value in picking up a language like this if theres not going to be a corpus of training data for an LLM to learn from? Id like to invest the time to learn Gleam, but I treat a language as a tool, or a means to an end. I feel like more and more I'm reaching for the tool to get the job done most easily, which are languages that LLMs seem to gel with.
I recently built something in Hare (a very niche new language), and Claude Code was helpful. No where near as good as it is with TypeScript. But it was good enough that I don’t LLMs being in the top 5 reasons a language would fail to get adopted.
christophilus commented on Useful patterns for building HTML tools simonwillison.net/2025/De... · Posted by u/simonw
Nice. I do something similar, but with Bun + Preact, since I love that stack. I’ve found it very productive after the hurdle of the initial project setup (in which I wasted time crafting an RPC layer, etc, because I wanted to.)