Why Claude Code is much more than a coding agent: it is a general-purpose AI agent that can do almost anything a user can on a computer, with impressive results
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Discussion
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@rakyll
Jaana Dogan
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I'm not joking and this isn't funny. We have been trying to build distributed agent orchestrators at Google since last year. There are various options, not everyone is aligned... I gave Claude Code a description of the problem, it generated what we built last year in an hour.
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@emollick
Ethan Mollick
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When you see how people use Claude Code/Codex/etc it becomes clear that managing agents is really a management problem Can you specify goals? Can you provide context? Can you divide up tasks? Can you give feedback? These are teachable skills. Also UIs need to support management
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@levelsio
@levelsio
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Yeehaw 🤠 Now I can talk to Claude Code on my VPS on my iPhone with @WisprFlow on iOS, it adds a keyboard that unlike iOS own Dictate, actually works with @TermiusHQ And it live changes production code I'm not the biggest fan of talking to a computer though but it does feel very c…
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@mitsuhiko
Armin Ronacher
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Kinda mind boggling. Opus got my little game running in web assembly in 10 minutes. Didn't even have to fix up inputs or sound which is wild to me.
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@davidsholz
David
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ive done more personal coding projects over christmas break than i have in the last 10 years. its crazy. i can sense the limitations, but i *know* nothing is going to be the same anymore.
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@simonw
Simon Willison
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It genuinely feels to me like GPT-5.2 and Opus 4.5 in November represent an inflection point - one of those moments where the models get incrementally better in a way that tips across an invisible capability line where suddenly a whole bunch of much harder coding problems open up
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@sergeykarayev
Sergey Karayev
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Claude Code with Opus 4.5 is a watershed moment, moving software creation from an artisanal, craftsman activity to a true industrial process. It's the Gutenberg press. The sewing machine. The photo camera.
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@minimaxir
Max Woolf
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One example of something I couldn't believe Claude Opus 4.5 could generate until it did: a full-on MIDI mixer as a terminal app, written in Rust. [video]
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@dabit3
Nader Dabit
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I think we're hitting a point where mobile coding actually makes sense for production-grade systems. This developer runs 6 Claude Code agents in parallel from his phone. No laptop, just a $7/day VM and push notifications when Claude needs input 🤯 Instead of long periods of inte…
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@gregisenberg
Greg Isenberg
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The $1.3T App Store doesn't DIE. It's going to EXPLODE. Claude Code makes it so anyone can ship an app, which means the App Store fills up 10,000× faster than before. Most are AI junk. But A few are surprisingly good and PERSONAL instead of UNIVERSAL. Apple will get stricter
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@somewheresy
@somewheresy
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Claude Code is probably the death of the App Store economy
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@benjamindekr
Benjamin De Kraker
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We are way past code. Code is solved. If you are not thinking about structures, architectures, and recursive systems of agents in 2026, you're probably behind.
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@rileybrown
Riley Brown
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Claude Code is becoming less like coding and more like a video game.
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@inductionheads
@inductionheads
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Claude code with Opus 4.5 is the single most powerful tool ever created, full stop.
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@apoorva_mehta
Apoorva Mehta
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if you have started a company in the last 12 months and it's not top 1%, now may be a good time to reconsider everything. claude code + opus 4.5 has changed what's possible and it'd suck to get the timing wrong by just a few months
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@beffjezos
@beffjezos
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Every moment not spent locked in on Claude Code feels very high opportunity cost all of a sudden
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@gregisenberg
Greg Isenberg
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claude code will probably make 50,000 people millionaires if not more
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@skirano
Pietro Schirano
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Claude Code isn't just for coding. I fed it my raw DNA data from an ancestry test and used it to find health related genes I should keep an eye on. The file is massive, but its ability to search what matters makes it possible. [image]
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@uttam_singhk
Uttam
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marketing people discovering opus 4.5 & claude code [image]
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@alexfinn
Alex Finn
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Your life if you use Claude Code 10 minutes a day in 2026 [image]
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@danshipper
Dan Shipper
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in 2026 all of software becomes Claude Code in a trenchcoat
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@karpathy
Andrej Karpathy
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I was inspired by this so I wanted to see if Claude Code can get into my Lutron home automation system. - it found my Lutron controllers on the local wifi network - checked for open ports, connected, got some metadata and identified the devices and their firmware [...] I am now v…