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by jrockway 60 days ago
I have read the HN articles and seen the grumbling from coworkers, but I haven't felt it myself. I am not really a one-shotter, though. I kind of think about how I would refactor / write something myself and walk Claude through that, and nitpick it at each step... and the recent changes haven't really bothered me there. Likely due to being new at it.

Sometimes Claude can be a little weird. I was asking it about some settings in Grafana. It gave me an answer that didn't work. I told it that. "Yeah, I didn't really check, I just guessed." Then I said, "please check" and it said "you should read the discussion forums and issue tracker". I said "YOU should read the discussion forms and issue tracker". It consumed 35k tokens and then told me the thing I wanted was a checkbox. It was! I am not sure this saved me time, Claude. I am not experienced enough to say that this is a deal breaker. While this is burned into my mind as an amusing anecdote, it doesn't ruin the service for me.

My coworkers have noticed a degradation and feel vindicated by some of the posts here that I link. A lot of them are using Cursor more now. I have not tried it yet because I kind of like the Claude flow and /effort max + "are you sure?" yield good results. For now. I'm always happy to switch if something is clearly better.
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giancarlostoro 60 days ago
How exactly do you use Claude Code, in the browser? Claude Code? The Desktop App (which has a "Code" tab) or some other way? I feel like people who have issues with Claude / Anthropic are not conveying where they are struggling. I see people say they tried "Claude" and didn't like it, but the secret sauce is Claude Code. Claude Code is what most people enjoy using, even if we all wish they would open up the harness, because there's so many more improvements that could go into it.
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jrockway 60 days ago
Yeah, sorry. Claude Code in my case.

I do use the browser version on occasion. I have no strong feelings one way or the other there. I like it better than Google search in many cases, but probably just search more often.

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