Ask HN: How are you productively using Claude code?
I tend to be sceptical when it comes to LLM based coding tools but many people seem to be raving about huge productivity gains which I wouldn’t mind as well. However when trying cc it left me vey disappointed. For context I’m working on a relatively greenfield rust project and gave it tasks that I would consider appropriate for a junior level colleague like: - change the return type of a trait and all it’s impls - refactor duplicate code into a helper function - replace some of our code with an external crate it didn’t get any of them correct and took a very long time. Am I using the tool wrong? How are you using cc or other agentic tools? 0 comments on Hacker News.
I tend to be sceptical when it comes to LLM based coding tools but many people seem to be raving about huge productivity gains which I wouldn’t mind as well. However when trying cc it left me vey disappointed. For context I’m working on a relatively greenfield rust project and gave it tasks that I would consider appropriate for a junior level colleague like: - change the return type of a trait and all it’s impls - refactor duplicate code into a helper function - replace some of our code with an external crate it didn’t get any of them correct and took a very long time. Am I using the tool wrong? How are you using cc or other agentic tools?
I tend to be sceptical when it comes to LLM based coding tools but many people seem to be raving about huge productivity gains which I wouldn’t mind as well. However when trying cc it left me vey disappointed. For context I’m working on a relatively greenfield rust project and gave it tasks that I would consider appropriate for a junior level colleague like: - change the return type of a trait and all it’s impls - refactor duplicate code into a helper function - replace some of our code with an external crate it didn’t get any of them correct and took a very long time. Am I using the tool wrong? How are you using cc or other agentic tools? 0 comments on Hacker News.
I tend to be sceptical when it comes to LLM based coding tools but many people seem to be raving about huge productivity gains which I wouldn’t mind as well. However when trying cc it left me vey disappointed. For context I’m working on a relatively greenfield rust project and gave it tasks that I would consider appropriate for a junior level colleague like: - change the return type of a trait and all it’s impls - refactor duplicate code into a helper function - replace some of our code with an external crate it didn’t get any of them correct and took a very long time. Am I using the tool wrong? How are you using cc or other agentic tools?
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