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A staff engineer's journey with Claude Code

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548 points kmelve | 1 comments | 02 Sep 25 19:34 UTC | HN request time: 0.541s | source
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jedberg ◴[02 Sep 25 22:49 UTC] No.45110124[source]▶
I'd like to share my journey with Claude (not code).

I fed Claude a copy of everything I've ever written on Hacker News. Then I asked it to generate an essay that sounds like me.

Out of five paragraphs I had to change one sentence. Everything else sounded exactly as I would have written it.

It was scary good.

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1. into_ruin ◴[02 Sep 25 22:56 UTC] No.45110191[source]▶
I'm doing a project in a codebase I'm not familiar with in a language I don't really know, and Claude Code has been amazing at _explaining_ thing to me. "Who calls this function," "how is this generated," etc. etc.

I'm not comfortable using it to generate code for this project, but I can absolutely see using it to generate code for a project I'm familiar with in a language I know well.