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What makes Claude Code so damn good

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469 points samuelstros | 3 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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socalgal2 ◴[23 Aug 25 20:19 UTC] No.44998808[source]▶
I’m trying to learn jj. Both Gemini and ChatGPT gave me incorrect instructions 4 of 5 times

https://jj-vcs.github.io/jj/

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1. BeetleB ◴[23 Aug 25 21:40 UTC] No.44999351[source]▶
That's because jj is relatively new, and constantly changing. The official tutorial is (by their own admission), out of date. People's blog posts are fairly different in what commands/usage they recommend, as well.

I know it, because I recently learned jj, with a lot of struggling.

If a human struggles learning it, I wouldn't expect LLMs to be much better.

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2. esafak ◴[24 Aug 25 03:18 UTC] No.45001035[source]▶
That's ironic considering jj is supposed to make version control easier.
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3. BeetleB ◴[24 Aug 25 05:20 UTC] No.45001613[source]▶
It does make it easier. Don't conflate documentation with the tool itself.