[spaceman_2020]

I'm afraid that we're entering a time when the performance difference between the really cutting edge and even the three-month-old tools is vast

If you're using plain vanilla chatgpt, you're woefully, woefully out of touch. Heck, even plain claude code is now outdated

[shj2105]

Why is plain Claude code outdated? I thought that’s what most people are using right now that are AI forward. Is it Ralph loops now that’s the new thing?

[spaceman_2020]

Plain Claude Code doesn’t have enough scaffolding to handle large projects

At a base level, people are “upgrading” their Claude Code with custom skills and subagents - all text files saved in .claude/agents|skills.

You can also use their new tasks primitive to basically run a Ralph-like loop

But at the edges, people are using multiple instances, each handling different aspects in parallel - stuff like Gas Town

Tbf you can still get a lot of mileage out of vanilla Claude Code. But I’ve found that even adding a simple frontend design skill improves the output substantially

[duckmysick]

Is there anywhere where we can learn more about creating your own agents/skills? Maybe some decent public repos that you could recommend.

[spaceman_2020]

You can just ask Claude to create them. They’re just markdown files

Anthropic’s own repo is as good place as any

https://github.com/anthropics/skills