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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: 0.291s | source
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OtherShrezzing ◴[23 Aug 25 20:07 UTC] No.44998715[source]▶
I think it’s just that the base model is good at real world coding tasks - as opposed to the types of coding tasks in the common benchmarks.

If you use GitHub Copilot - which has its own system level prompts - you can hotswap between models, and Claude outperforms OpenAI’s and Google’s models by such a large margin that the others are functionally useless in comparison.

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badestrand ◴[24 Aug 25 03:55 UTC] No.45001236[source]▶
I read all the praise about Claude Code, tried it for a month and was very disappointed. For me it doesn't work any better than Cursor's sidebar and has worse UX on top. I wonder if I am doing something wrong because it just makes lots of stupid mistakes when coding for me, in two different code bases.
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1. mnvrth ◴[24 Aug 25 13:42 UTC] No.45004195[source]▶
I'll suggest giving it another shot. It really is a game changer (I can't tell what you're doing wrong, but in a few people I've seen it has been about doing a psychological switch. I wrote about it a bit here - https://mnvr.in/beginners-mind, sharing in case it helps you see how you might approach it differently)