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What makes Claude Code so damn good

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469 points samuelstros | 1 comments | 23 Aug 25 19:07 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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diego_sandoval ◴[23 Aug 25 20:00 UTC] No.44998676[source]▶
It shocks me when people say that LLMs don't make them more productive, because my experience has been the complete opposite, especially with Claude Code.

Either I'm worse than then at programming, to the point that I find an LLM useful and they don't, or they don't know how to use LLMs for coding.

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1. AaronAPU ◴[23 Aug 25 20:51 UTC] No.44999031[source]▶
If you’re working with a massive complicated C++ repository, you have to take the time to collect the right context and describe the problem precisely enough. Then you should actually read the code to verify it even makes sense. And at that point, if you’re a principle level developer, you could just as easily do it yourself.

But the situation is very different if you’re coding slop in the first place (front end stuff, small repo simple code). The LLMs can churn that slop out at a rapid clip.