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Comment by flopsamjetsam

14 hours ago

Do you find it a big improvement over the tools you used previously?

It's honestly harder - you have to do a lot of extra work to ensure your work is traceable. It's super fast in doing things you have no overview of - it makes pretty figures, it runs command line jobs etc. and I'm sure there are mistakes in there. For now I'm pretending Claude Science is an IDE, like Positron/VSCode, and I have to keep enforcing proper git usage etc. so I can reproduce this work

Edit: compared to my tools before, it generally uses the same tools in the same way, just 20x faster than me and I mostly struggle to keep up and verify what it's doing

  • Sounds exactly like Claude Code (and ilk) tbh. Just a lot of the stakes are lower and a lot of people are more comfortable with it (e.g. there were always people blindly copying and lasting from StackOverflow) I suppose.

  • > have to keep enforcing proper git usage etc. so I can reproduce this work

    Depending on what you mean here, it might be worth looking at jj, which works with git repositories. One of the features is that everything gets committed at change time (kind of) which may or may not be helpful to you here.