Claude Code is like crack cocaine for CRIMPers

Posted by Luhmann
Nov 10, 2025 at 10:22 AM

I recently discovered Claude Code (CC), a separate app from Claude AI specifically for software development, though they share many features, and you can use the same plan on both. As the title says, it is like crack cocaine for those of us who constantly like to try new apps or tweak the settings on existing apps.

Want a new feature in Raycast? Have CC write you an extension for it! Want a new action script for Drafts? Have CC write it for you. An open-source browser extension doesn’t work how you like? Have CC fork the code and fix it. If the Pro plan didn’t have a limited number of tokens, I’d be developing my own apps from scratch.

And I’m not even talking about the ways you modify Claude itself by writing new skills for it. For instance, I wrote a Claude code skill to interact with a Zotero MCP and format search results for Logseq… or more precisely, I used the “skill creation skill” to write it for me.

Claude Code has completely transformed how I use my computer, but it is too addictive. I really need to spend less time CRIMPing and more time doing my actual job!

Posted here because I figured I’d find a sympathetic audience.

Posted by satis
Nov 10, 2025 at 05:45 PM

It’s funny that Anthropic wasn’t even sure if they were going to release this to the public. The head of Claude Coding said, “The Labs team started using it immediately, the next day after I gave it to them. I walked in and was like, “Wow, this is crazy.” I’ve built a lot of products, but never really seen that before. And then we gave it to all of Anthropic, and pretty soon everyone was a daily active user. I think still 80% to 90% of people use it daily, and it’s like 100% weekly…. We weren’t totally sure if we should even release it, to be honest. We thought it was our secret sauce since it makes our researchers more productive, by a lot.”

Vibe coding is cool, yet as powerful as this is it is just a baby step compared to flexible processes in/on aps that will be tailored to individual use in the near future.

Posted by Paul Korm
Nov 10, 2025 at 06:03 PM

It’s hard to believe we’re just at the beginning of tools like Claude Code (and others) in the hands of the general public. What’ll we have in a year, two years?

I’ve played with Claude Code, but I’m having more practical fun these days experimenting with Claude’s access to my Readwise database, controlled access to my file system, and some of the new tools in beta test with Craft. It is so easy to have Claude look for my notes in Readwise and in my files, on a variety of topics, and then synthesize them and insert the findings and conclusions into a document in Craft. I have no doubt in a month or two or six there will even more ways to do this and what i can do today will seem too simple and uninteresting.

Not easy to put my finger on just what exactly is going on here. Not ordinary CRIMPing—more like MegaCRIMPing.

(BTW, side note: if you’re tired of Claude or ChatGPT telling you that your questions are brilliant, change the default prompt in Claude’s general settings, or ChatGPT’s personalization settings.)

Posted by satis
Nov 11, 2025 at 09:51 PM

Paul Korm wrote:

>(BTW, side note: if you’re tired of Claude or ChatGPT telling you that
>your questions are brilliant, change the default prompt in Claude’s
>general settings, or ChatGPT’s personalization settings.)

THANKS!

I just changed ChatGPT from Default (“Cheerful and adaptive”) to Robot (“Efficient and blunt”) and to be sure gave it ‘Custom instructions’ of no encouragement. I just re-asked some old questions and the responses were more structured and less verbose. I like it!

Aside from telling me how smart and handsome I am, the main downside I’ve found to using LLCs is that they use search history to make assumptions about my needs. Yesterday I was researching a computer for an elderly neighbor and was getting inappropriately powerful recommendations based on my music and photography hobbies, and I had to edit the question to note that the product search was not for personal use.

Posted by Cyganet
Nov 12, 2025 at 09:28 AM

I find these unwanted assumptions annoying and a waste of my time trying to manage them. I have turned off using memories and previous chats for this reason. I have also turned off “improve the model for everyone”.

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