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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: 0.205s | source
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1zael ◴[23 Aug 25 20:46 UTC] No.44998995[source]▶
I've literally built the entire MVP of my startup on Claude Code and now have paying customers. I've got an existential worry that I'm going to have a SEV incident that will trigger a house of falling cards, but until then I'm constantly leveraging Claude for fixing security vulnerabilities, implementing test-driven-development, and planning out the software architecture in accordance with my long-term product roadmap. I hope this story becomes more and more common as time passes.
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foobarbecue ◴[23 Aug 25 20:58 UTC] No.44999088[source]▶
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1zael ◴[24 Aug 25 04:04 UTC] No.45001279[source]▶
Congratulations, you replace my pile of "slop" (which really is functional, tight code written by AI in 1/1000th of the time it would take me to write it) with your "shorter" code that has the exact same functionality and performance. Congrats? The reality is no one (except in the case of like competitive programming) cares about the length of your code so long as it's maintainable.
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1. foobarbecue ◴[24 Aug 25 21:29 UTC] No.45007978[source]▶
But that's the thing -- because I WROTE my code, I know there's nothing bizarre in it. Your code is almost guaranteed to have something bizarre and unexpected in it, at least somewhere.