Claude Code hands-on: chews through legacy bugs in gnarly old code and a big step for coding assistants, but its form factor is clunky and no multimodal support (Steve Yegge/@steve_yegge)

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Claude Code hands-on: chews through legacy bugs in gnarly old code and a big step for coding assistants, but its form factor is clunky and no multimodal support  —  I've been using Claude Code for a couple of days, and it has been absolutely ruthless in chewing through legacy bugs in my gnarly old code base. It's like a wood chipper fueled by dollars. It can power through shockingly impressive tasks, using nothing but chat. You don't even