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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: 0.206s | 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. OccamsMirror ◴[14 Jul 25 05:13 UTC] No.44556690[source]▶
I had a great experience with it refactoring a project to use more modern patterns. A Go project moving from a deprecated and unwieldy query builder to using SQLC and protobuf for UI types etc. It did a great job just working its way through the entire system.

Had less luck on generating new features. It's great for prototyping UI but I routinely end up writing it myself.

It's also quick to forget how I like to do things or what libraries and packages it should use. So I either have to keep reminding it or fix up the work myself. While I'm unsure whether it still ends up being quicker, that's really immaterial for me because it absolutely kills the enjoyment of the work.