Mastodawn

I have been using ChatGPT to help me with my code for a few years now, but I'm wondering if I should jump to Claude for actual productivity. ChatGPT has been very helpful in many ares, but I also believe it drops the ball fairly often, even generating deprecated code that has been deprecated for a few years.

To those of you who use AI coding tools in your day to day job? What are you using? If you use Claude, is it worth paying for it just for coding?

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Ben Scheirman Feb 5

@andy I've been using Claude Code, Codex, and Cursor (at work)

all of them will generate code that doesn't work, but the key point is getting them in the feedback loop so that they can iterate without your hand-holding.

What I find helpful is an AGENTS.md file that says:

- after you change code, run `mise r build-llm` and make sure there are no warnings or errors
- run swiftlint and make sure there are no linting warnings

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Ben Scheirman Feb 5

@andy the mise task "build-llm" is an xcode build command piped into xcsift, which helps with token usage by hiding a lot of the output xcode generates.

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Andy Ibanez

@bens wonderful tip. I have yet to use Claude for anything serious so I guess looking at the instruction files would be a great place to start. Thanks.