alt Hacker NewsThe Making of Claude Code
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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'.
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.
The self-mythologising is strong with this one...
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.
Pi was written by like one guy and it's better than this
Once you are popular, whatever said is automatically true
“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.
> 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
Sonnet 3.5 and Cursor proving PMF for agentic coding should've at least got a mention...
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.
Nice; Pretty interesting historical narration of Claude Code.
Perhaps the most telling part of this transcript is Tristan Hume, a prolific and talented programmer, and presumably an expert performance engineer, is repeatedly saying "this thing just doesn't work that well yet" or "it's just not there yet" and everyone else is kind of just fawning over it.
"It actually made something that worked. But when I tried using it, I found I didn’t like it. I need to wait for a Claude that has the taste ..."
Yes, I am familiar with that experience.
Incredibly cringe. Literally every single medium mode problem for a team is framed as a groundbreaking achievement. These people snort their own farts.