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Ask HN: How are you productively using Claude code?

23 points nocobot | 1 comments | 13 Jul 25 08:28 UTC | HN request time: 0.409s | source

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?

1. perilunar ◴[13 Jul 25 13:23 UTC] No.44550281[source]▶
I used Cursor (with ChatGPT) for the first time last week to build two web apps and it worked well. Working results first go, then a few hours of tweaking and adding features. These were simple CRUD apps using PHP and SQLite on Apache. I had to clean up the front-end code a bit, but it all worked. I’m not strong on SQL, so it was neat to have all the database code working on the first pass, and helped me keep up the momentum and finish them, instead of getting bogged down and frustrated. Definitely plan to keep using Cursor, and try other AI tools.