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0 pointsjghn2mo ago0 comments

I find my sweet spot is using the Claude web app as a rubber duck as well as feeding it snippets of code and letting it help me refine the specific thing I'm doing.

When I use Claude Code I find that it *can* add a tremendous amount of ability due to its ability to see my entire codebase at once, but the issue is that if I'm doing something where seeing my entire codebase would help that it blasts through my quota too fast. And if I'm tightly scoping it, it's just as easy & faster for me to use the website.

Because of this I've shifted back to the website. I find that I get more done faster that way.

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pigpop2mo ago

I've had similar experiences but I've been able to start using Claude Code for larger projects by doing some refactoring with the goal of making the codebase understandable by just looking at the interfaces. This along with instructions to prefer looking at the interface for a module unless working directly on the implementation of the module seems to allow further progress to be made within session limits.

fragmede2mo ago

By "the website" do you mean you're copy pasting, or are you using the code system where Anthropic clones your code from GitHub and interacts with it in a VM/container for you.

jghnOP2mo ago

Just pasting code snippets, and occasionally an entire file or two into the main claude.com site. I usually already know what I want and need, but just want to speed up the process on how to get there, and perhaps I missed something in the process.

zmmmmm2mo ago

Aider is pretty good way to automate that. You can use it with Claude models. It lets you be completely precise down to a single file, and sit in chat/code/review loop - but it does a lot of the chores, like generating commit messages etc while saving you the copy paste effort.

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