Claude Code is all you need

Summary

#You can just build things These are only a few things I've built with Claude Code since using it. Most of them are experimental and I've read some reports of it not doing as well on massive real-world code bases, but from what I've seen I'd be surprised it wasn't still useful in those contexts given enough guidance. I'm still surprised by how much better it is as a tool when given a lot of context and input. Here are a few other toy projects I've had it spit out - all things that I've wanted to build for months or years but never found the time. Now you can do stuff like this in a few minutes or hours instead of days or weeks. Building a HackerNews comment ranker plugin I've often been annoyed by comments on HackerNews that are not at all about the article they're commenting on. "Bitcoin adopts a new FlibbityGippity Protocol and can now handle 2.3 transactions per day" and someone will comment that all Crypto projects are scams or something. Note that I don't care about the quality of the comment, or whether or not I agree with it, but I'd wanted a visual way to skip over the 'noise' comments that aren't actually about the article at all. I tried to build this before but got distracted by more important stuff, so I figured I'd start over with Claude Code. It took a few tries before it could actually display the badges correctly within HN's (pretty simple) HTML structure, but after a few rounds of 'no try again' or 'add more debugging so I can paste the errors to you', it created almost exactly what I had envisioned. I was surprised by how good it looked (much better than my normal hacky frontends), and the details it had added unprompted (like the really nice settings page, even with a nod to the HN orange theme). The actual ranking (which I'm using OpenAI for, not Anthropic) is not that good. It could probably be improved with a better prompt and some more examples of what I think is a '1' comment or a '5' comment, but it works and looks at least directionally acc...