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We're All Addicted To Claude Code

We're All Addicted To Claude Code

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Wondering why your maker-turned-manager suddenly seems distracted in meetings? Maybe they're addicted to coding agents! In this episode of Lightcone, Calvin French-Owen — a co-founder of Segment and former engineer on OpenAI's Codex team — joins us to talk about why coding agents suddenly feel so powerful, the differences between Codex, Claude Code, and Cursor, and what the future of work will look like. 0:00 Intro 1:15 Garry can’t stop using Claude Code! 4:00 Contrast with IDE’s, context-splitting 6:23 Distribution models, top down vs bottom up 9:11 Licensing and optimization 12:28 Tips on becoming a top 1% user of coding agents 17:36 When can the agents work 24-48 hour running jobs on their own? 21:34 Can the agent teach things like architecture? 26:27 Will the next generation have even better taste and multitasking ability? 29:58 Maker vs manager schedules 31:36 How would Calvin build Segment now? 35:52 The importance of testing 38:52 The Claude bots are talking (to each other!) 40:10 Examples of complex issues, how will the tools evolve 43:00 Outro Apply to Y Combinator: https://www.ycombinator.com/apply Work at a startup: https://www.ycombinator.com/jobs

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0:00 - 1:18
1:18 duration257 words

Intro

"I feel like when I'm using quad code, it's like, oh, I feel like I'm flying through the code. >> When it's in your CLI, this thing can debug nested delayed jobs like five levels in and figure out what..."

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1:18 - 4:01
2:43 duration563 words

Garry can’t stop using Claude Code!

"Uh I recently got very very addicted to Claude Code and uh I would describe it as like 10 years ago I was a marathon runner and I love doing it and then I suffered a catastrophic knee injury which is ..."

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4:01 - 6:24
2:22 duration512 words

Contrast with IDE’s, context-splitting

"the file system and kind of like explore what's there and they're doing it in their own context window and I think enthropic has kind of like figured something out here around given a task does that t..."

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6:24 - 9:12
2:48 duration635 words

Distribution models, top down vs bottom up

"is frankly underrated. like thinking about a cursor or a cloud code or a codec CLI, the fact that you can just download it and use it without having to get it permissions or anything makes a huge diff..."

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9:12 - 12:28
3:15 duration755 words

Licensing and optimization

"source uh projects have taken off a lot more. I think one of the examples is Superbase actually. >> Yeah. Yeah. uh which really took off last year and part of it is because they have such a good open-..."

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12:28 - 17:36
5:08 duration1109 words

Tips on becoming a top 1% user of coding agents

">> So given this is how a lot of the superpowers for the best coding agents is context engineering. What are some of the tips to become a top 1% user of coding agents? >> Yeah. What's your stack? >> Y..."

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17:36 - 21:35
3:58 duration869 words

When can the agents work 24-48 hour running jobs on their own?

"runs. I guess like there are these very different architectures between cloud code and codeex sound like they're actually deeper in that codeex is actually meant for much longer running jobs. So you t..."

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21:35 - 26:29
4:53 duration1093 words

Can the agent teach things like architecture?

"next generation understand that? Can the cloud code bot actually teach people about uh architecture and things like that or you know are you just gonna bump your head into it and users just kind of su..."

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26:29 - 29:58
3:29 duration849 words

Will the next generation have even better taste and multitasking ability?

"olds like 5 years from now will just have like off the charts taste and everything because they'll just be so much more prolific. They should be, right? like they should just be launching and like tou..."

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29:58 - 31:36
1:37 duration386 words

Maker vs manager schedules

">> Something I'm curious to see is kind of like what the update version of the PG maker uh maker schedule versus manager schedule would look like cuz I feel like part of what's going on at YC is sort ..."

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31:36 - 35:52
4:15 duration977 words

How would Calvin build Segment now?

">> I wonder with that note if you were to rebuild segment in the current with the current tools >> how would it look like? I mean, segment is a funny business in that uh where we started was building ..."

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35:52 - 38:52
3:00 duration653 words

The importance of testing

"built. I was surprised how important testing was. Like I was operating for like the first 2 or 3 days of my 9 days in the wilderness. Like uh no tests or very few tests. And then one day I was like, "..."

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38:52 - 40:11
1:18 duration281 words

The Claude bots are talking (to each other!)

"seen um the Claudebot social like the network for clawbots to talk to each other and it's like that's the evolution for Molen? >> Yeah. I guess what they don't know. Clawbot's essentially like um uh l..."

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40:11 - 43:02
2:50 duration585 words

Examples of complex issues, how will the tools evolve

"that you could talk about? I mean it's like concurrency or naming issues, right? >> I find the models are actually like decent at concurrency. oftentimes there's stuff where it's like, oh, there's a r..."

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43:02 - 45:47
2:45 duration658 words

Outro

"researchers who are working on it. I think Enthropic is focused a little bit more on like some of the front-end things. Um, and I don't know in terms of like a Ruby for example, like who has the best ..."