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Claude Code

Discussions focus on Claude Code's effectiveness for coding tasks, user experiences, comparisons to tools like Cursor, Copilot, and Aider, and debates on its quality versus prompt engineering issues.

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cpursley • Jan 8, 2025 • View on HN

Yeah, you wanna use Claude for code. That's the problem. Try Cursor or Bolt.

travisporter • Jan 24, 2025 • View on HN

I’ve been away from this space for about a year - is Claude still better at coding tasks?

OccamsMirror • Jul 21, 2025 • View on HN

I use Claude Code for all of my interactions with Claude now. It's a way better experience.

dboreham • Sep 3, 2025 • View on HN

My experience with the latest Claude Code has been: it's not nearly as bad as you say.

wyre • Oct 6, 2025 • View on HN

is Claude Code actually useless or is is a prompt engineering/context issue?

Bolwin • Sep 11, 2025 • View on HN

They're all using claude so idk. Claude code is just a program, the magic is mainly in the model

mritchie712 • Sep 15, 2025 • View on HN

Have you used Claude Code? How does it compare?

sagarpatil • Apr 17, 2025 • View on HN

How does it compare to Claude Code

dgellow • Apr 18, 2025 • View on HN

Have you tried Claude code? It’s of course more expensive but the terminal UI is fantastic

rw2 • May 22, 2025 • View on HN

Claude code is a poorer version of aider or cline in VScode. I have better results using them than using claude code alone.