If Claude Code LLMs are reportedly so good, then why is the Claude Code CLI such a buggy, messy, featureless disaster? Are they dogfooding?
This is a funny comment because it's just made up
Readit Newsdbbk commented on Claude Code Checkpoints claude-checkpoints.com/... · Posted by u/punnerud
Great pitch, you've articulated the pain point super well and I agree with it.
I have personally had no luck with prompting models to ask me clarifying questions. They just never seem to think of the key questions, just asking random shit to "show" that they planned ahead. And they also never manage to pause halfway through when it gets tough and ask for further planning.
My question is how well you feel it actually works today with your tool.
Interesting you say that. My workflow is just to use Claude Code with Opus in Plan mode, have it write a plan, and ask "What clarifying questions do you have for me" and it always prompts me to answer very good questions.
dbbk commented on Claude Sonnet 4 now supports 1M tokens of context anthropic.com/news/1m-con... · Posted by u/adocomplete
If I can give it a detailed spec, walk away and do something else for 20 minutes, and come back to work that would have taken me 2 hours, then that's a steal.
You can just do this now though. In fact you could go a step further and set up the GitHub Action, then you can kick off Claude from the iOS GitHub app from the beach and review the PR when it's done.
dbbk commented on Ask HN: How can ChatGPT serve 700M users when I can't run one GPT-4 locally? · Posted by u/superasn
Due to batching, inference is profitable, very profitable.
Yet undoubtedly they are making what is declared a loss.
But is it really a loss?
If you buy an asset, is that automatically a loss? or is it an investment?
By "running at a loss" one can build a huge dataset, to stay in the running.
How batched can it really be though if every request is personalised to the user with Memory?
I've been using Claude code 12-16 hours a day since I first got it running two weeks ago.
Here's the tips I've discovered:
1. Immediately change to sonnet (the cli defaults to opus for max users). I tested coding with opus extensively and it never matches the quality of sonnet.
2. Compacting often ends progress - it's difficult to get back to the same quality of code after compacting.
3. First prompt is very important and sets the vibe. If your instance of Claude seems hesitant, doubtful, sometimes even rude, it's always better to end the session and start again.
4. There are phrases that make it more effective. Try, "I'm so sorry if this is a bad suggestion, but I want to implement x and y." For whatever reason it makes Claude more eager to help.
5. Monolithic with docker orchestration: I essentially 10x'd when I started letting Claude itself manage docker containers, check their logs for errors, rm them, rebuild them, etc. Now I can get an entirely new service online in a docker container, from zero to operational, in one Claude prompt.
If Opus is worse than Sonnet then why did they even release the model? What is it for?
dbbk commented on Claude Code is a slot machine rgoldfinger.com/blog/2025... · Posted by u/rgoldfinger
> and it never gives up.
Not to impede your overall point, but have you not encountered a situation where Claude gives up? I definitely have, it'll say something like "Given X, Y and Z, your options are [a bunch of things that do not literally but might as well amount to 'go outside and touch grass']."
I've been experimenting lately with just interfacing with Claude Code through the GitHub action and issues.
I sit on the beach and talk to it through the GitHub iOS app. I set the timeout to 4 hours and let it just work. It comes back to me later with something and I take a look. By the time I get home, I might tweak a few things here or there manually (particularly if it's about aesthetics), and merge.
dbbk commented on YouTube's new anti-adblock measures iter.ca/post/yt-adblock/... · Posted by u/smitop
dbbk commented on YouTube's new anti-adblock measures iter.ca/post/yt-adblock/... · Posted by u/smitop
I get they want to work against ad blockers, but as a Premium member I really wish there was an easy way to watch a video without it polluting my history or recommendations. I don't want to watch ads just due to that.
If you create a new profile and switch to it it keeps your Premium benefits with its own watch history. I do this for communal watching on the living room TV.
dbbk commented on YouTube's new anti-adblock measures iter.ca/post/yt-adblock/... · Posted by u/smitop
Advertising is predatory by design. It is my moral duty not only to resist advertising, but to do everything I can to make it as ineffective as possible.
You can avoid the advertising by paying for the service then