The Making of Claude Code

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• Hacker News
• “The autonomous software engineering agent vision is more or less coming to fruition.”

  Oddly enough no evidence of this is provided. I’ll admit it’s possible to have Claude write 100% of your code - however this is very distinct from autonomy. If I iterate on the code with Claude - telling it what to change, checking for errors and reporting them back to Claude, etc., I can build an app without “writing code” - but that is totally different from autonomy. And it’s not even clear how much of a time saver this really is if I know the language myself.

  by therobots927
• Why do I have to select if i want to read it in terminal or in the browser? I clicked the link, show me the text.

  You are not being clever, you are annoying.

  by grim_io
• You are absolutely right and I apologize. Would you like me to summarize the article in five short bullet points? Just give me the word!
  by sunaookami
• Sonnet 3.5 and Cursor proving PMF for agentic coding should've at least got a mention...
  by adi_pradhan
• > I had written a whole pull request by hand, and then Adam rejected it. But he said, “Actually, you should use clide for this.”

  Interesting

  by ryanschaefer
• Incredibly cringe. Literally every single medium mode problem for a team is framed as a groundbreaking achievement. These people snort their own farts.
  by hatefulheart
• new product : claude cringe
  by jatindavis05
• Yeah for sure lmao.

  > @dawn-drain — Research Engineer at Anthropic My main project for my first three years at Anthropic, beginning in 2021, was to try and make a model that was as good at coding as possible— at least as good as me.

  by Lord_Zero
• I support this comment, at the expense of wanton karma forfeiture.

  I think the fart snorting assertion can be proven. There is evidence.

  by eth0up
• Please be respectful. I find it incredibly dismissive that you would use such language to describe such amazing individuals. They revolutionized the industry. They built a game engine to render text for cripes sake! So please get it right.

  Huff. They huff their own farts.

  by ryanschaefer
• Once you are popular, whatever said is automatically true
  by a_c
• Claude itself (Opus) gave me the following conclusion:

  > The article frames Claude Code as the latest step in a lineage from punch cards → ed → modern editors → AI agents. Multiple team members say they no longer write any code by hand. The overall tone is "we built the right primitive (read/edit/bash), bet on future model improvements, and it paid off."

  Honestly I don't want to endure an awkward terminal interface and/or questionable design to just arrive at this conclusion.

  by lifthrasiir
• Pi was written by like one guy and it's better than this
  by xyzsparetimexyz
• Can you be more specific about how one is better than the other?
  by randomise_seq1
• To be fair, Pi only had to be useful. Claude Code had to solve the difficult unsolved problem of making a terminal print text, so naturally they built a small game engine [1]

  [1] https://x.com/trq212/status/2014051501786931427

  by nsingh2
• The self-mythologising is strong with this one...
  by alpineman
• Nauseating on so many levels. What are we celebrating, even? Authors themselves say that Claude does their work, so what is their input? It's been barely a year in production for what can be best described as a 'buggy mess'.
  by xpct
• Aider was also some of the most amazing prior art. After switching from the early copilot (crazy to think they were first to market with this stuff?) it was an amazing TUI experience. CC won because it offered token hungry devs a fixed price for almost infinite usage in the early days with stacks of VC cash to burn.
  by chrisvenum