Claude CLI (Claude Code): Just Do It

Neo · February 18, 2026, 2:03pm

Everyone should try Claude Code:

curl -fsSL https://claude.ai/install.sh | bash

cd your-project
claude

I used it to debug a Discourse plugin issue that had dragged on for weeks. Neither ChatGPT nor Gemini could resolve it. Claude (Sonnet) identified the root cause quickly, fixed the problem, and pushed a clean patch to GitHub. Exactly how a coding LLM should behave.

Neo · February 18, 2026, 2:28pm

munkeHoller · February 18, 2026, 4:17pm

we’re using it extensively atm, with correct prompting etc it’s producing decent results

Neo · February 18, 2026, 9:49pm

cat error.log | claude

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Neo · February 20, 2026, 12:38pm

Personally, I continue to use Claude CLI. I tried the Gemini CLI, but on the free tier I kept running into “too busy” timeouts.

That said, I’m on the Pro tier with Claude CLI. Gemini may perform better on a paid plan.

In my active repositories, I maintain persistence files to bootstrap new sessions and track progress and design decisions:

CLAUDE.md
DESIGN.md
TODO.md

Neo · February 21, 2026, 3:27pm

This has been my experience as well—except that even “writing code” is turning into grunt work. The real engineering effort is shifting up the stack: system architecture, feature selection and prioritization, human-interface design, workflow debugging, and overall coherence of the system.