[ramoz]

I think about this daily. More devs are starting to pick up on Claude Code. The initial “not an IDE!” scare is usually diminished within the initial session.

I don’t think the future of agentic software development is in an IDE. Claude Code gives me power to orchestrate - the UX has nothing to do with terminal; it just turns out an agent that lives on the OS and in the filesystem is a powerful thing.

Anthropic can and will evolve Claude Code at a pace cursor cannot evolve IDE abstractions. And then yea - they are designing the perfect wrapper because they are also designing the model.

Long bet is Claude Code becomes more of an OS.

[steveklabnik]

You might find this post interesting: https://steipete.me/posts/2025/claude-code-is-my-computer

It… sure is something. I’m still thinking about if it’s horrible, visionary, or both.

[Hyperboreanal]

Note: the text of that article itself is AI generated.

> Automate Content: Like this very post. I use Wispr Flow to talk with Claude, explain the topic and tell it to read my past blog posts to write in my style.

[JimDabell]

Now I have the mental image of the owner of that blog tearing his hair out trying to get back into his computer, while the AI that locked him out is happily posting on his blog trying to convince other gullible humans to hand over control of their computers.

[steveklabnik]

Yes, the author (apparently) spent a lot of time with it.

[ramoz]

Wow yea, definitely resonates thanks for sharing.

This is why I think the future may be less about “agents” and more about “intelligent infrastructure”

I don’t want to chat. I want to point a wand and make things happen.

[dimal]

How are people using Claude Code day to day without spending a lot? I tried it on a moderately complex task and it chewed through tokens at an alarming rate. I quickly spent $2 and hadn’t even arrived at an adequate solution yet. I’ve heard other people say they’ve spent $10-20 in a coding session. I don’t see how that’s sustainable for me, so I’ve stuck with my $20/month Cursor subscription.

[brandall10]

They use a plan - Pro and Max are static plans with different caps over 5 hour sessions.

[saratogacx]

Pro isn't a static plan. Pro subs can access Claude Code but are paying via API metering. I have it setup at home and, while I haven't used it much, it can quickly add up.

What I did do, because my personal projects aren't too complex, is moved the model from Opus to Sonnet which is about 1/5 the cost.

For day-to-day stuff I have ProxyAI (on IntelliJ, continue.dev works for this too) pointed at Mistral's Codestra for auto-complete and to Claude 4 for chat.

Claude Code is just for giving the bot tasks to do without me being deeply involved in the work.

(edit) I just saw that pro is getting a rate-limited option for Claude code for the sonnet model only. I haven't tried it out but will give it a go sometime. https://support.anthropic.com/en/articles/11145838-using-cla...

[brandall10]

Pro is indeed a static CC plan as of yesterday. It won't automatically switch over, you have to re-login inside of Claude Code.

[xandrius]

Normally to make a new smallish feature it costs me about $0.40.

The core suggestion is to point specifically at the files you want it to read and use as a reference, otherwise it might go read some huge file for no reason. Also the tokens used depend on the size of the project.

Generally, if I'm doing something I can box, I'd use chatgpt and copy it in myself. If I want something matching the style, I'd use a guided Roo Code.