Yuchen Jin comments on Karpathy's Claude Code setup
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Yuchen Jin cites the setup from Andrej Karpathy's blog: Karpathy uses the Mac desktop version of Claude Code, defaulting to Opus 5.5 at medium reasoning effort. Yuchen Jin commented that the terminal is the wrong interface for coding agents, and that the desktop app is currently the best interface; most tasks don't need the smartest model paired with the highest reasoning effort.
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Andrej Karpathy’s setup from his HackerTube blog today:
- “I use Claude Code (desktop app for Mac).”
As I’ve been saying, terminal is the wrong interface for coding agents. Desktop apps are the best interface today.
- “I use Opus 5.5 on Medium effort as my default.”
There’s no point to use the smartest model at the highest reasoning effort for most tasks.