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Headstart accelerates software development by up to 100x with Claude

by yla92 on 10/16/24, 12:25 AM with 35 comments

• by matt3210 on 10/16/24, 12:31 AM

  This is all lies. I use Claude and it's just not good enough to 100x productivity.

  Update: I think this is an ad by Anthropic

• by peter_d_sherman on 10/16/24, 2:04 AM

  I think the key quote is:

  >"Claude's extensive context window has also transformed their approach to handling large codebases. When the 200K context window was released, Hedley notes they "ripped out the entire RAG and just put it in the context window instead and it went from 60 percent accuracy to 98."

  RAG = Retrieval Augmented Generation

  Related:

  What is retrieval-augmented generation, and what does it do for generative AI?:

  https://github.blog/ai-and-ml/generative-ai/what-is-retrieva...

  Retrieval Augmented Generation:

  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Retrieval-augmented_generation

  Retrieval-Augmented Generation for Knowledge-Intensive NLP Tasks (2021) (apparently the original paper where the term 'RAG' was coined):

  https://arxiv.org/pdf/2005.11401

• by userbinator on 10/16/24, 1:54 AM

  More like, accelerates bug development by up to 100x.

• by OutOfHere on 10/16/24, 2:30 AM

  A good deal of software development is clarifying the required specification. This alone takes a lot of work and a lot of coding! If you don't know the nitty-gritty of what you really need, you can't get it at 100x or even at 10x speed.

• by OutOfHere on 10/16/24, 2:49 AM

  When it comes to financial accounting work, there is just no room for buggy or sloppy code. The customer will go away forever at the first instance of being billed incorrectly, also seeking a refund from the credit card.

• by throwaway918299 on 10/16/24, 1:50 AM

  complete horse-plop

• by akmarinov on 10/16/24, 6:11 AM

  Come on guys, my higher ups read these headlines and then expect some miracles …

• by GiorgioG on 10/16/24, 1:44 AM

  Oh fuck off!