[Aeolun]

You must be using a different CC. Or what they’re writing here is correct, and it’s all due to the CLAUDE.md file that I only occassionally yell at claude.

[Tsarp]

Hmm please share more. I have had the max CC sub since it came out. Religiously follow all of Boris/Cats advice but still struggle with it. Meanwhile a really badly written AGENTS.md will still get the work done.

[zarzavat]

Apologies but what is a Boris Cat?

[polotics]

Boris Cherny and Cat Wu are the lead devs of CC at Anthropic who unsurprisingly talk their book and find so many ways to justify tokenmaxing.

As the product they deliver is greenfield and in the newest of domain spaces, there is a serious halo-effect to consider.

On a side note, at a company I know the devs are split between

Stick to Copilot inside visual studio

- suspiciously cheap Opus quotas there

+ they read their code

pi coding agent

+ control all the things my way

- each their own way

Claude Code

+ it's magic

- you mean it did that to my prompt!

[Kwpolska]

Copilot's extreme subsidies end this month. Starting in June, you'll be paying API rates for all models.

[vasachi]

I find that most “techniques” are basically user hallucinations. Simple plan-write-refactor loops and trivial CLAUDE/AGENTS.md, generated by the harness itself, work nicely. Maaaaaaaaaybe write a skill or two, but usually it’s better to just write a script.