<div style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">I've been on the Claude wagon for a while now as well. <br><br>My company pays all my claude usage, so I don't think about it. The cost can get pretty high, but if your employer is gonna pay for it then awesome :) <br><br>I have some skills but I find the most effective use of the tool is to give it plenty of context, use plan mode, have a conversation with to make sure you know what it's going to do and this is very import, know what <b>you</b> want to do. Don't let it make the decisions for you. <br><br>Sometimes we do arch reviews before creating new work, which I'll also do with claude to explore some repos, get a good picture of the code base. Come up with a plan but also ask claude to come up with some alternatives and then "we" can sift through them together. </div><div style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"><br>After we have a good plan and the rest of the team or engineering is onboard with the plan I can use the arch review doc as the prompt for what I want to build. <br><br>I know I'm going to sound like a vibe coder right now, but I'm pushing on avg 40-50 PR's a week across a variety of services (lets say about 10-15 of those are argocd changes to deploy a change cause I'm too impatient to wait for renovate to come by and update the deployment for me) One of the reasons the number is so high is because I like to break my work up into small manageable PR's so I am not dropping 15k changes on people to review. </div><div style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"><br></div><div style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">nick <br><br><br></div>
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On Sunday, March 1st, 2026 at 6:59 PM, Sean Reifschneider <jafo00@gmail.com> wrote:<br>
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<div dir="ltr">I've been going heavy with the AI coding tools for a couple years now. I'm currently using and quite happy with Claude Code using the Opus 4.6 model. I am mostly using it with Python, though I recently I had it try building the same code, with the same prompt, in Python, Go, Rust, and Zig. It definitely had an easier time of it in Python than in Go, Rust, or Zig (in that order, Go easier than Rust, etc...). For a frame of reference, I was having it build an AWS lambda service to do image manipulation (resizing, watermarking, rendering and caching).<div><br></div><div>You say your company will pay for the subscription: At what level? To set expectations, to use the most modern workflow for anything but toy projects, you're going to need to be at the $100/mo level, at $20/mo with agent teams you're going to be needing to let the tokens reset once or twice even for fairly simple tasks, so it'll take ~5-10 hours to get enough tokens.</div><div><br></div><div>One of the biggest things you can do to decrease human attention and increase success is to give the tooling a way of checking its own progress. I am mostly using it with TUI apps and web apps, and with web apps I am using the "chrome dev tools MCP" or "playwright MCP" so that Claude Code can start the app, bring up a browser, read the javascript error console, and otherwise interact with the app. I've also created a "codex review skill" that will use the Google codex TUI to have it review the last commit and provide actionable feedback for Claude Code to work on.</div><div><br></div><div>One thing that you really need to get a feel for is the context, when to hold onto it, when to clear it, when to compact it. This gets more complex in agent teams because the agents have their own contexts. However, if your agent gets into the weeds, you're usually better off using "/clear" to reset the context and returning to your last prompt to refine it. You may also want to tell it to "ask clarifying question" or have it build a "PRD file" of the design and then review and refine the PRD file, then have it use that for implementing the software.</div><div><br></div><div>As an example, maybe try a prompt like this:</div><div><br></div><div>Please build a Python/PyQT app that implements a simple video poker game<br>of 5 card poker. Please use an agent team to implement this with a UX<br>expert, a python expert, a qt expert, a poker expert, a web game design<br>expert, a qa tester, and a devils advocate. Use python best practices<br>including uv for code formatting/dependency management/she-bang line,<br>unit testing, and type annotation.</div><div><br></div><div>I just kicked off a prompt for that, but as a web app, I'll let you know how it did. Scratch that, it's up at <a href="https://pokeit.linsomniac.com/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer nofollow noopener">https://pokeit.linsomniac.com/</a> -- This was directly what came out of a prompt similar to above, but I told it to make a web app running locally in the browser. This, of course, is a greenfield, but claude code isn't only for greenfield, I've had great success with having it implement features into existing code (for example adding first-class ZFS support including live VM migration to ganeti: <a href="https://github.com/linsomniac/ganeti" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer nofollow noopener">https://github.com/linsomniac/ganeti</a> )</div><div><br></div><div>Even just the past month, the AI tooling grown in capability by quite a lot. Basically claude code is doing all my coding for me, and starting to take over some other parts of my work as well (remember, I'm in ops so I have a lot of non-development work, I'm not a full-time developer). Using Claude Code does involve a lot of learning how to use it and how to prompt it for the best results. That's just going to involve a lot of trial and error.</div><div><br></div><div><a href="https://github.com/ChromeDevTools/chrome-devtools-mcp" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer nofollow noopener">https://github.com/ChromeDevTools/chrome-devtools-mcp</a></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote gmail_quote_container"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sun, Mar 1, 2026 at 4:44 PM Phil Marsh <<a href="mailto:microcraftx@gmail.com" rel="noreferrer nofollow noopener">microcraftx@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">Hi All,<div>I'm primarily doing C++ with Qt and some Python + PyQt.</div><div>I'm thinking I "need to join the AI Revolution" and at least try AI-assisted coding.</div><div>I was wondering if any of you have good recommendations for AI-driven coding tools?</div><div>I hear Claude Code is pretty good? The company I'm working with in CA told me that they would pay for the subscription.</div><div>Thanks and see you next Tue.</div><div>Phil</div></div>
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