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Building a Personal AI Factory

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260 points derek | 1 comments | 01 Jul 25 21:14 UTC | HN request time: 0.214s | source
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simonw ◴[02 Jul 25 00:02 UTC] No.44439075[source]▶
My hunch is that this article is going to be almost completely impenetrable to people who haven't yet had the "aha" moment with Claude Code.

That's the moment when you let "claude --dangerously-skip-permissions" go to work on a difficult problem and watch it crunch away by itself for a couple of minutes running a bewildering array of tools until the problem is fixed.

I had it compile, run and debug a Mandelbrot fractal generator in 486 assembly today, executing in Docker on my Mac, just to see how well it could do. It did great! https://gist.github.com/simonw/ba1e9fa26fc8af08934d7bc0805b9...

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1. com2kid ◴[02 Jul 25 07:24 UTC] No.44441017[source]▶
> That's the moment when you let "claude --dangerously-skip-permissions" go to work on a difficult problem and watch it crunch away by itself for a couple of minutes running a bewildering array of tools until the problem is fixed.

Eh, I just watched Claude spend an hour trying to incorrectly fix code. Eventually I realized what was happening, stepped in and asked it to write a bunch of unit tests first, get the code working against those unit tests, and then get back to me.

Claude Code is amazing, but I still have to step in and give it basic architectural guidance again and again.