"We recently released Claude Code, a command line tool for agentic coding. Developed as a research project, Claude Code gives Anthropic engineers and researchers a more native way to integrate Claude into their coding workflows.

Claude Code is intentionally low-level and unopinionated, providing close to raw model access without forcing specific workflows. This design philosophy creates a flexible, customizable, scriptable, and safe power tool. While powerful, this flexibility presents a learning curve for engineers new to agentic coding tools—at least until they develop their own best practices.

This post outlines general patterns that have proven effective, both for Anthropic's internal teams and for external engineers using Claude Code across various codebases, languages, and environments. Nothing in this list is set in stone nor universally applicable; consider these suggestions as starting points. We encourage you to experiment and find what works best for you!"

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"Most guides to docs like code, even the ones for non-devs, assume you have some developer knowledge: maybe you're already using version control, or you've encountered build pipelines before, or you're working alongside developers.

This guide is for the people who read that paragraph and wished it came with a glossary. This is docs like code for people who don't know what git is and have never installed VS Code.

This post explains terminology and concepts, to help you get a mental model of what's going on. If you prefer to dive in and pick up concepts as you go, skip straight to the tips in How to learn, and come back to the conceptual info as needed."

https://deborahwrites.com/blog/docs-like-code-basic-intro/

#TechnicalWriting #SoftwareDocumentation #SoftwareDevelopment #Programming #DocsAsCode #Git #Markdown #TechnicalCommunication #MkDocs #VSCode

"It’s not that hard to build a fully functioning, code-editing agent.

It seems like it would be. When you look at an agent editing files, running commands, wriggling itself out of errors, retrying different strategies - it seems like there has to be a secret behind it.

There isn’t. It’s an LLM, a loop, and enough tokens. It’s what we’ve been saying on the podcast from the start. The rest, the stuff that makes Amp so addictive and impressive? Elbow grease.

But building a small and yet highly impressive agent doesn’t even require that. You can do it in less than 400 lines of code, most of which is boilerplate.

I’m going to show you how, right now. We’re going to write some code together and go from zero lines of code to “oh wow, this is… a game changer.”

I urge you to follow along. No, really. You might think you can just read this and that you don’t have to type out the code, but it’s less than 400 lines of code. I need you to feel how little code it is and I want you to see this w

"[T]hose claiming we're mere months away from AI agents replacing most programmers should adjust their expectations because models aren't good enough at the debugging part, and debugging occupies most of a developer's time. That's the suggestion of Microsoft Research, which built a new tool called debug-gym to test and improve how AI models can debug software.

Debug-gym (available on GitHub and detailed in a blog post) is an environment that allows AI models to try and debug any existing code repository with access to debugging tools that aren't historically part of the process for these models. Microsoft found that without this approach, models are quite notably bad at debugging tasks. With the approach, they're better but still a far cry from what an experienced human developer can do.
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This approach is much more successful than relying on the models as they're usually used, but when your best case is a 48.4 percent success rate, you're not ready for primetime. The limitati

"Most modern cars have some kind of internet connection, but Tesla goes much further. By design, its cars receive "over-the-air" updates, including updates that are adverse to drivers' interests. For example, if you stop paying the monthly subscription fee that entitles you to use your battery's whole charge, Tesla will send a wireless internet command to your car to restrict your driving to only half of your battery's charge.

This means that your Tesla is designed to follow instructions that you don't want it to follow, and, by design, those instructions can fundamentally alter your car's operating characteristics. For example, if you miss a payment on your Tesla, it can lock its doors and immobilize itself, then, when the repo man arrives, it will honk its horn, flash its lights, back out of its parking spot, and unlock itself so that it can be driven away:
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Some of the ways that your Tesla can be wirelessly downgraded (like disabling your battery) are disclosed at the time

"The US and China are locked in a dangerous trade stand-off, with the world’s two largest economies trading tit-for-tat blows as Donald Trump demands Beijing seek a deal from his administration.

China relies on the US as an almost irreplaceable market for its manufactured goods, but experts warn that Washington should not underestimate Beijing’s capacity to resist Trump’s coercive tactics.

The combination of centralised political control, increasingly diversified export markets and its virtual stranglehold on some strategically vital materials, including rare earth metals, gives Beijing plenty of negotiating power. The question is how far it can use its leverage without suffering even more damage itself.

China had a trade surplus of almost $300bn with the US last year, with about 15 per cent of its total exports heading into the US. Trump’s tariffs of 145 per cent would inflict significant pain on Beijing.

But international economists said this overlooks one crucial fact: China can

"On April 4, the Chinese government ordered restrictions on the export of six heavy rare earth metals, which are refined entirely in China, as well as rare earth magnets, 90 percent of which are produced in China. The metals, and special magnets made with them, can now be shipped out of China only with special export licenses.

But China has barely started setting up a system for issuing the licenses. That has caused consternation among industry executives that the process could drag on and that current supplies of minerals and products outside of China could run low.

If factories in Detroit and elsewhere run out of powerful rare earth magnets, that could prevent them from assembling cars and other products with electric motors that require these magnets. Companies vary widely in the size of their emergency stockpiles for such contingencies, so the timing of production disruptions is hard to predict."

[https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/13/business/china-rare-earths-exports.html?unlocke

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"China still dominates shoe production, but its share of global exports has slipped by 10 percentage points over the past decade, with much of that going to rival hubs like Vietnam and Indonesia, according to the Yearbook.

Zhou’s plant now employs fewer than 20 workers. “The future is bleak and hopeless if we continue like this,” says Zhou from his showroom in a mostly empty wholesale market in a Guangzhou suburb focused on international trade. “It would be difficult to return to how it was before.”

Factories across China at the low-end of manufacturing are facing the same dilemma — either they invest in automation that shrinks the number of jobs, or they slowly wither away.

The result, in the view of researchers and economists, is a painful shift away from low-cost, labour-intensive production that could leave millions of older, lower skilled workers in the lurch.

Analysis of 12 labour-intensive manufacturing industries between 201

"You may find China’s approach to its financial elite harsh. It is harsh, in some ways, especially if you’re used to the United States’ more hands-off approach. There have even been cases where Chinese bankers have been sentenced to death for things like bribery, which does cross a line into the draconian. But then again, most of the “ex-billionaires” who’ve fallen under Xi Jinping’s regulatory hammer are still around, and still extremely rich—just less so than before. And you have to ask yourself: which is worse, being too harsh on billionaires and their activities, or not harsh enough?

Consider a counterfactual: what if the U.S. government had done to Elon Musk what the Chinese government did to Jack Ma? Say, in 2022, when Musk’s plans to buy Twitter and remake it in his own image started to move forward? There was some discussion back then about American regulators suing to prevent the $44 billion sale, but nothing came of it. But suppose U.S. antitrust watchdogs had blocked the de

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"Donald Trump’s presidential administration has exempted smartphones and computers from the 125% levies imposed on imports from China as well as other “reciprocal” tariffs, which experts had cautioned might cause electronic consumer prices to spike dramatically in the US.

The announcement was made late on Friday in a US Customs and Border Protection (CBP) notice that said the devices would be excluded from the 10% global tariff that Trump recently imposed on most countries, along with the much heftier import tax on China.

The CBP’s notice follows concerns from tech companies that the price of electronics for US consumers might surge with many of them manufactured in China. The notice also contained exemptions for additional electronics and components, such as memory cards, solar cells and semiconductors."

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/apr/12/trump-administration-smartphones-computers-china-tariffs

#USA #Trump #Tariffs #TradeWar #China #Protectionism

"German media outlet Handelsblatt reported on Thursday that the recently escalated trade war between the U.S. and China is accelerating the negotiations between the European Union and the country led by Xi Jinping.

As expansion into the U.S. market appears increasingly unlikely, China is shifting its focus to negotiating with EU leaders to cancel the tariffs imposed late last year on all fully electric vehicles imported into Europe.

The European Commission began imposing provisional countervailing duties on Chinese EV imports on October 31, 2024, following an anti-subsidy probe launched in 2023.

The tariffs, which add to the EU’s standard 10% import duty, range from 7.8% on Tesla’s Shanghai-built vehicles to as high as 35.3% on models from state-owned SAIC Motor, which owns the MG brand. BYD and Geely face rates of 17.0% and 18.8%, respectively."

https://eletric-vehicles.com/byd/eu-china-accelerate-talks-to-cancel-tariffs-on-imported-evs-report/

#EU #China #EVs #Tariffs

"In short, the U.S. economy will suffer enormously in a large-scale trade war with China, which the current levels of Trump-imposed tariffs, at more than 100 percent, surely constitute if left in place. In fact, the U.S. economy will suffer more than the Chinese economy will, and the suffering will only increase if the United States escalates. The Trump administration may think it’s acting tough, but it’s in fact putting the U.S. economy at the mercy of Chinese escalation.

The United States will face shortages of critical inputs ranging from basic ingredients of most pharmaceuticals to inexpensive semiconductors used in cars and home appliances to critical minerals for industrial processes including weapons production. The supply shock from drastically reducing or zeroing out imports from China, as Trump purports to want to achieve, would mean stagflation, the macroeconomic nightmare seen in the 1970s and during the COVID pandemic, when the economy shrank and inflation rose simultaneo

"The debate over whether to take Trump literally or seriously is over. He has now learnt how to be the tyrant he always wished to be. That took a while. But, with the help he has received, he is there. His administration is engaged in a comprehensive assault on the American republic and the global order it created. Under attack domestically are the state, the rule of law, the role of the legislature, the role of the courts, the commitment to science and the independence of the universities. All these were the pillars on which US freedom and prosperity rested. Now, he is destroying the liberal international order. Soon, I presume, Trump will be invading countries, as he proceeds to restore the age of empires.
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It seems inevitable that these tariffs, plus the uncertainty created by the unanchored, and so unpredictable, new policy environment, will damage the world and US both now and in the longer term. Our economies are far more open than ever before. Sudden and huge increases

"A bolder approach could let China phase down coal without causing power cuts, says Lauri Myllyvirta of the Centre for Research on Energy and Clean Air (crea), a think-tank in Finland. It would need much more renewable power and big upgrades to China’s grid to let clean energy be transferred over long distances or stored (to offset for the fact it can be generated only when the sun shines or when the wind blows). China is already spending substantial amounts on trying to clean up. Clean-energy investments came to $940bn, or 10% of gdp, in 2024. In that year alone the country installed more solar-power capacity (277gw) than exists in the whole of the United States (200gw).

The bottleneck is that China lacks a flexible, nationwide power market that could ensure clean power is efficiently dispatched to where it is needed. At the moment most power is sold locally through long-term contracts, which typically favour coal-fired plants by guaranteeing the purchase of fixed amounts of power. A

"Today, we are facing the possibility of a global system that is not organized by a hegemonic power, in the way that Giovanni Arrighi and many others understood it. The abandonment by the United States of the tools of hegemonic organization does not necessarily mean that another nation-state will take up that mantle. The question appears, then, whether such a nonhegemonic project can be effective and lasting. For now, a centrifugal and conflictive multipolarity seems to be an adequate description of the state of the world. From this perspective, a continuing or even permanent war regime begins to appear as a necessary component of both the organization of the world market and the conditions of capitalist development. The capitalist world has always required violence and dispossession, beyond the “mute compulsion” of economic forces, just as all regimes of capitalist “free trade” have required weapons of dominant states and imperial regimes. One difference of the current conjuncture is

"Take a look at this iPhone 16 Pro. Your cost, for the 256GB version, is $1,100. The cost of all the hardware inside—aka the bill of materials—was about $550 to Apple when the phone was introduced, says Wayne Lam, research analyst at TechInsights, which breaks down major products. Throw in assembly and testing and Apple’s cost rises to around $580. Even when you account for Apple’s advertising budget and all the included services—iMessage, iCloud, etc.—there’s still a healthy profit margin.

Now factor in the newly announced tariff for goods from China, which currently totals 54%. The cost rises to around $850. That profit margin would shrink dramatically if Apple didn’t up the price. And you don’t become a trillion-dollar gadget company by charging for things at cost."

[https://www.wsj.com/tech/personal-tech/iphone-apple-tariffs-china-bb20c7a3?st=uZeNUf&amp%3Breflink=desktopwebshare_permalink](https://www.wsj.com/tech/personal-tech/iphone-apple-tariffs-china-bb20c7a3?st=uZeNUf&reflin

"Individually, the reports say little that isn’t already in the news or on social media; but taken as a whole, they depict a government hysteria about the attacks on Tesla, described less like petty crime than some kind of violent insurgency. The entire alerting process, in fact, feels like a government-fueled contagion, a set of reports that create the vague impression of an assault on the American way of life.

What is most glaring about the reports in the immediate sense is that President Trump’s March 21 declaration that violence against Tesla is “terrorism” isn’t being echoed by law enforcement or the national intelligence community. Not yet.

A Joint Intelligence Bulletin produced by the FBI and Department of Homeland Security on March 21 (“Individuals Target Tesla Vehicles and Dealerships Nationwide With Arson, Gunfire and Vandalism”) reveals a sweeping effort by both agencies to “investigate,” “deter” and “disrupt” what it calls “nationwide incidents targeting Tesla electric ve

"The trade war comes as China is still struggling with deflation, a housing bust and dismal demography. For the past five years the Communist Party has neglected weak consumption and embraced an unwise statism that has cramped the private sector. China has exported its overcapacity, swamping the world with goods, and fostered a spiky chauvinism that unsettles America’s allies both in Asia and Europe.

Despite all this, China enters the new age of MAGA stronger than in Mr Trump’s first term. President Xi Jinping has long argued that America is too polarised and overstretched to sustain its global role. One of his slogans warns of “great changes unseen in a century”. His paranoid nationalism used to seem like dystopian hyperbole. Now that Mr Trump is committing such wanton self-harm and general destruction, it looks ahead of its time.

Mr Xi has been preparing for today’s chaotic world ever since becoming China’s leader in 2012. He has urged economic and technological self-sufficiency on

"My current conclusion, though preliminary in this rapidly evolving field, is that not only can seasoned developers benefit from this technology — they are actually in the optimal position to harness its power.

Here’s the fascinating part: The very experience and accumulated know-how in software engineering and project management — which might seem obsolete in the age of AI — are precisely what enable the most effective use of these tools.

While I haven’t found the perfect metaphor for these LLM-based programming agents in an AI-assisted coding setup, I currently think of them as “an absolute senior when it comes to programming knowledge, but an absolute junior when it comes to architectural oversight in your specific context.”

This means that it takes some strategic effort to make them save you a tremendous amount of work.

And who better to invest that effort in the right way than a senior software engineer?

As we’ll see, while we’re dealing with cutting-edge technology, it’s the

"Apenas 0,21% dos vídeos encontrados tem alguma forma de monetização. A média de visualizações de um vídeo no Youtube é algo como 41 views. 74% dos vídeos não têm nenhum comentário e 89% não têm nenhum like. A duração média dos vídeos é de 64 segundos, sendo que um terço dos vídeos têm menos de 34 segundos. Em outras palavras, o Youtube é um oceano de vídeos nunca vistos.

O inglês é a língua de apenas 28% dos vídeos, seguido pelo hindu (11%), espanhol (8%), português (7%), russo (6,5%), árabe (6%) e assim por diante.

É curioso que todos esses dados só sejam acessíveis a partir de um projeto de pesquisa longo e complexo. O próprio Google, dono da plataforma, não revela estatísticas. Aliás, há sempre um desejo de manter a imagem do Youtube como algo pouco lembrado quando comparado a outras redes sociais. Outra distorção enorme.

O site é de longe a rede social mais popular nos EUA, sendo usado por 83% dos adultos e 93% dos adolescentes. É o segundo site mais visitado do planeta, perden