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by withinboredom 142 days ago
Do people actually use this mode? Having to approve diffs in the ide is too annoying.
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Depends on my task. If it’s complex and my expectation is for Claude to get things wrong the diff preview is helpful.
Even then, I'd wait until it's had a chance to iterate and correct itself in a loop before I'd even consider looking at the output, or I end up babysitting it to prevent it from making mistakes it'd often recognise and fix itself if given the chance.
True. I’ve been strictly in the terminal for weeks and I have a stop hook which commits each iteration after successful rust compilation and frontend typechecks, then I have a small command line tool to quickly review last commit. It’s a pretty good flow!
You can tell it not to do that and it will show inline diffs.