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Comment by thatsabadlook

2 days ago

Yea not at all. There are dozens of oss Claude code clones written by 1 person with a few contributors that work as well if not better. So it's really not some massive challenge. A decent cs student with enough coffee could get 40% the way there in a week without any llms. The same can't be said for rocket building or even design...

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bulbar  2 days ago

What people believe are the core features has never been difficult to implement. Building "something like" Twitter or facebook or reddit has always been possible within a few days.

It's an iceberg, most of the complexity lies underneath the obvious stuff.

  • avinoth  1 day ago

    But in Twitter or Facebook, the complexity is not in the app but with the scale. How do you support the network, graph, querying, fetching, etc. That is not the case for a self-contained binary like Claude code CLI that talks to the same API irrespective of 100 people are using or 1M people are using around the world.

  • thatsabadlook  1 day ago

    No like there are dozens of open source Claude code alternatives that are as good or better than Claude code. This isn't a theoretical thing. It's not new either.