Weekly Report #98 - The Book of Life and Agentic Coding

Introduction#

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This article is a record and reflection on life from 2025-06-09 to 2025-07-08.

I received a "book" about my life; I will share my thoughts and usage of Claude Code and various Agentic Coding tools; and there are many interesting things.

The Book of Life#

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Like my neighbor Reorx’s Forge, I received a gift from my friend Tu Junjie, who printed the first message from the creation of this channel on 2022.5.28 to my birthday summary article on 2025.6.6 into a booklet, a book titled Yu's Life.

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In today's era of digitizing everything, turning this channel into a physical book that can be flipped through is a magical thing. Just like the name of my channel, my life and experiences over the past three years seem to have gained texture and depth; flipping to any page reveals fragments of past time.

My channel is a fork of Reorx's channel, and the first message was to star his n8n workflows, most of which are still in use today, running steadily for three years. At that time, Tu Junjie asked me how I did it when he saw my channel, and I shared Reorx's article on using automated workflows to aggregate information input and output with him. Now, we are connected like nodes scattered in cyberspace, which is very interesting and touching.

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Thinking about how every day and every thought I experience now will become a line of text in the future, it seems that even the smallest ideas I share now have become romantic.

I can't help but think that in three years, this book will probably grow even more lush and vibrant. My heart feels less confusion and anxiety about the unknown future, and I even find myself looking forward to it. Perhaps this is also the energy that comes from output and sharing flowing back. ❤️

Agentic Coding#

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In the past half month, I have also started using Claude Code in line with the "trend," and I have gained a deeper understanding of Agentic Coding.

I started using it when GitHub Copilot first introduced Technical Review completion, which helped me "slack off" a lot at work. Later, when ChatGPT came out, I began copying and pasting code into the chat box to solve coding problems. After that, I used Cursor extensively for a year, watching it rise from a niche tool to prominence, while also experiencing Roo Code + Gemini 2.5 Pro's super long context, using Augment, and now the smarter Claude Code, among others.

In fact, I don't feel that Claude Code is too radical or amazing like many others do. Perhaps it's because I had opened and configured almost all command line Auto Run when YOLO mode (the predecessor of Agent mode) was first released in Cursor. In many of the projects I currently maintain, the AI code content may have reached over 80%, and some small projects are purely Vibe, with almost no code written by me. Some static projects were directly generated using v0.dev and lovable from screenshots.

So, I didn't experience the sentiment expressed by some media that "I uninstalled Cursor five minutes after installing Claude Code," but I did feel some progress. It seems I no longer need to maintain so many prompts or provide enough context; it can fulfill most explicit requirements. In just a few days, I felt the enormous potential of tools like Claude Code, or the possibilities of Agentic Coding in the future.

Now, Agentic Coding tools feel more like employees or "interns." It's not that their coding ability (~~I feel they are quite strong in certain fields or specific environments~~) is better than mine, but rather their "personality." When I encounter a technical problem or need to implement a function, I first consider what kind of project and requirements it is, and then choose different tools.

For example, in a large and complex project like {Folo}, to implement a complete function, I would prioritize using Roo Code along with 1M context & fully thought-out Gemini 2.5 Pro. It acts like a solid new employee with coding skills, who will first understand the original structure of the code to the maximum extent when taking on a new project. It may not generate code of as high quality as the Claude model or get it right in one go, but it usually won't deviate too far from the specific requirements. Any small bugs or optimization points brought by this new code can be directly handed over to Cursor in conjunction with Claude 4 Sonnet Thinking.

In contrast, for a codebase like {RSSHub}, although it's large, when adding or fixing a route, I only need to focus on the relevant logic of that one website, at most ten files. In this case, after figuring out how to obtain the website content technically, handing it over to Claude Code is a great choice. It can write beautiful code like a smart intern and even provide some innovative solutions, and it will automatically debug.

For some more independent or routine projects like front-end, API, or CRUD types, I usually hand them over to Cursor, which feels more like an experienced employee in the project, equipped with the smartest Claude Sonnet 4 Thinking model. It handles UI interactions and code rollbacks very well, always covering us for some of our bold changes.

Just a year ago, I couldn't have imagined having such a "rich" choice space for coding. This is probably a great era for application developers.

Claude Code#

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In the first two days of using it, I was quite excited, calculating the refresh time to continue the work I didn't finish the night before, somewhat like a gamified design waiting to respawn in the novice village.

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I used the tool Vibe Meter to track usage. Although I don't use it as extensively as various bloggers who might spend hundreds a day, it has indeed solved many practical problems in my work, far exceeding its value.

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Claude Code image pasting trick — after copying with Cmd + c, just Ctrl + v directly in the Claude Code terminal solves the high-frequency usage problem! 🔥

n8n#

After recharging Claude Pro, in addition to using Claude Code, I can also use the relatively generous Claude Opus 4 model on the client side.

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Recently, I found it quite good for writing n8n workflows. For a relatively complex AI function I just created, after detailing the requirements, the json workflow file generated by it can be directly imported and is already quite usable. I can then fine-tune it or let Opus 4 adjust, regenerate, and import it again, achieving vibe no coding 🤣.

Personal Life Snapshots#

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I joined an adult training class at a swimming club in Hangzhou with a senior, practicing every Monday, Wednesday, and Saturday from 7-9 PM for two hours. I am the worst in the basic class 😭, obediently using a float board to correct my movements.

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Recently, the clouds I see when I look up are so beautiful!

Interesting Things and Objects#

Inputs#

Although most interesting inputs are automatically synced in the 「Yu's Life」 Telegram channel, I still selected a portion to list here, feeling more like a newsletter.

I built a microblog using Telegram Channel messages as content sources — 「daily.pseudoyu.com」, which makes browsing more convenient.

Favorites#

Articles#

Work Anniversary and AI Anxiety: Growth and Challenges Coexist, Innei, who is always online in the development group 🔥 is amazing.
From the Release of Claude 4 and the Windsurf Acquisition, Looking at the Endgame of AI, big companies compete on models, medium companies on acquisitions, and small companies on efficiency. Overall, it is still a golden age for application developers and ordinary users.
The Symphony of Lens and Code: Creating a Personal Online Gallery and Holiday Essays, Fuji is amazing!
My Thoughts on Various AI Coding Agent Tools, my views on various AI Coding Agent tools.
Observations on AI-Assisted Programming in 2025, having extensively used most of the tools mentioned in the article, it is very accurate, and the thoughts on agent coding are also forward-looking.
Some Practices and Thoughts on AI-Assisted Programming, AAC is multiper, which resonates deeply with me, oscillating between being amazed that "Cursor finished my hour's work in ten minutes" and being speechless that "it took an hour to solve a problem that could be done in ten minutes."
The State of React and the Community in 2025, the development status, history, and misunderstandings of React.
Claude Code Best Practices, just starting to experience Claude Code.
Talking About AI and MCP, still haven't found any practical use cases in production life, still observing the development of MCP.
Where is the Bubble in Labubu?, answered many of my doubts about Labubu's popularity.
How to Automate Development Journaling with Claude Code, I feel I can create an Obsidian version 🧐.
Translation: Embrace the Grind, we always pursue efficiency, but sometimes doing tedious "grind work" or seemingly "inefficient" tasks is another way to solve problems.
How I Vibe Coding?, recently tried using Claude Code to write Rust, and it indeed exceeded expectations.

Videos#

Series#

Killing Machine, a robot comedy, surprisingly good.
Infiltration, a spy war genre I really like. Recently, after watching "Shen Zui's Memoir" and "Yuan Shu," I understand more about the causality in this historical period. The ending is somewhat regrettable but also real, lacking some of the satisfying parts, yet it makes one think about whether it is worth it.
One Shot to the Soul, I tried Apple TV for three months, saw this on the homepage, it's a middle-aged inspirational + road movie? Feels okay for casual watching.
Kangxi Dynasty, the dramas I recently caught up on are getting older and older.