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Why is the author considering Claude Code a "real developer workflow"? Unless you're doing complex tool calling, is CC really resource-heavy?


Why does a "real developer workflow" need to be resource-heavy?


IDE written in Java indexing 10K files, compiling + running spring boot apps that take 30 seconds to start on the M4, or C++ compilation, or rust compilation.. Or maybe you were sarcastic?


I am heavy developer guy.


and this is my developer. She consumes one hundred fifty gigabytes and runs two hundred thousand dollar, custom-tooled GPUs at ten thousand tokens per minute. It costs four hundred thousand dollars to develop…for twelve seconds.”

[Laughs]

“Oh my Claude, who touched settings.json? Alright…Who touched my LLM!?”


Yes, Claude Code can use a lot of RAM.




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