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A staff engineer's journey with Claude Code

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548 points kmelve | 3 comments | 02 Sep 25 19:34 UTC | HN request time: 0.852s | source
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rhubarbtree ◴[03 Sep 25 06:33 UTC] No.45112846[source]▶
Does anyone have a link to a video that uses Claude Code to produce clean robust code that solves a non trivial problem (ie not tic tac toe or a landing page) more quickly than a human programmer can write? I don’t want a “demo”, I want a livestream from an independent programmer unaffiliated with any AI company and thus not incentivised to hype.

I want the code to have subsequently been deployed in production and demonstrably robust, without additional work outside of the livestream.

The livestream should include code review, test creation, testing, PR creation.

It should not be on a greenfield project, because nearly all coding is not.

I want to use Claude and I want to be more productive, but my experience to date is that for writing code beyond autocomplete AI is not good enough and leads to low quality code that can’t be maintained, or else requires so much hand holding that it is actually less efficient than a good programmer.

There are lots of incentives for marketing at the grassroots level. I am totally open to changing my mind but I need evidence.

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thecupisblue[dead post] ◴[03 Sep 25 06:46 UTC] No.45112915[source]▶
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izacus ◴[03 Sep 25 07:03 UTC] No.45113022[source]▶
People live stream their work all the time, it's really not unreasonable to ask for an example/tutorial on how to use the technology in the real world.
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1. thecupisblue ◴[03 Sep 25 07:51 UTC] No.45113278[source]▶
Yes, people who are:

- Working on hobby projects/sideprojects

- Working on open-source projects

- Selling stuff

For someone to create this example, they would either have to do it in a codebase they don't have problem open sourcing or which is open source, so they do not break NDA's and divulge company info/source code.

How many people are ready to do that?

The conditions of the OP are:

- No demo, independent programmer

- Non-greenfield project

- Non-trivial problem

- Code deployed in production and robust

- Code review, test, testing, PR creation

- Person be willing to live-stream their work and code while building

Which is a pretty unreasonable set of conditions to prove "it works", when the person could read a tutorial and try it themselves.

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2. rhubarbtree ◴[03 Sep 25 08:07 UTC] No.45113362[source]▶
I’m happy for it to be on OSS, so long as that software is reasonably well known (ie user base is not a handful of people) and is used in production.
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3. newswasboring ◴[03 Sep 25 10:35 UTC] No.45114191[source]▶
What difference does it make how many people use it? Complex software exists all over the world for handful of users. I personally work in an industry where anything we create will be used by at max 100 people worldwide. Does it diminish the complexity of code? I think not.