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Claude Sonnet will ship in Xcode

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485 points zora_goron | 1 comments | 29 Aug 25 00:44 UTC | HN request time: 0.2s | source
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not_your_vase ◴[29 Aug 25 05:23 UTC] No.45060519[source]▶
3 days ago I saw another Claude praising submission on HN, and finally I signed up for it, to compare it with copilot.

I asked 2 things.

1. Create a boilerplate Zephyr project skeleton, for Pi Pico with st7789 spi display drivers configured. It generated garbage devicetree which didn't even compile. When I pointed it out, it apologized and generated another one that didn't compile. It configured also non-existent drivers, and for some reason it enabled monkey test support (but not test support).

2. I asked it to create 7x10 monochromatic pixelmaps, as C integer arrays, for numeric characters, 0-9. I also gave an example. It generated them, but number eight looked like zero. (There was no cross in ether 0 nor 8, so it wasn't that. Both were just a ring)

What am I doing wrong? Or is this really the state of the art?

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1. XenophileJKO ◴[29 Aug 25 06:13 UTC] No.45060775[source]▶
Ok. several tips I can give. 1. Setup a sub-agent to do RESEARCH. It is important that it only has read-only and web access tools. 2. Use planning mode and also ask the agent to use the subagent to research best pratices with the tech that you are wanting to do, before it builds a plan. 3. When ever it gets hung up.. tell it to use the sub-agent to research the solution.

That will get you a lot better initial solution. I typically use Sonnet for the sub-agents and Opus for the main agent, but sonnet all around should be fine too for the most part.