23 points nocobot | 1 comments | 13 Jul 25 08:28 UTC | HN request time: 0.339s | 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. lessurliu ◴[14 Jul 25 16:19 UTC] No.44561939[source]▶

>>44548554 (OP) #

I can't live without it now. I think its ability to develop a new project(I use it to build websites) from zero to one is very strong, but for refactoring old projects, it might need to get more familiar with the context first. You can open multiple treminal simultaneously to execute tasks in parallel. Also, I recommend using the ultrathink keyword - this is very useful when Claude Code needs to understand complex problems.

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