Claude Code Routines - Hacker News

Posted by matthieu_bl 12 hours ago

488 points | 288 commentspage 5

desireco42 11 hours ago|

I think they are using Claude to come up with these and they will bringing one every second day... In fact, this is probably routine they set.

gegtik 4 hours ago||

how did they not call this OpenClaude?

jcims 11 hours ago||

Is there a consensus on whether or not we've reached Zawinski's Law?

senko 10 hours ago||

I've had an AI assistant send me email digests with local news, and another watching a cron job, analyzing the logs and sending me reports if there's any problem.

I'd say that counts as yes.

(For clarity: neither are powered by Claude Code Routines. Rather, Claude Code coded them and they're simple cron jobs themselves.)

verdverm 10 hours ago||

TIL email is what I'm missing in my personal development (swiss army) tool

nico 11 hours ago||

Nice, could this enable n8n-style workflows that run fully automatically then?

outofpaper 11 hours ago||

Yes but much less efficiently. Having LLMs handle automation is like using a steam engine to heat your bath water. It will work most of the time but it's super inefficient and not really designed for that use and it can go horribly wrong from time to time.

meetingthrower 11 hours ago||

Correct. But the llm can also program you the exact automation you want! Much more efficiently than gui madness with N8N. And if you want observability just program that too!

meetingthrower 11 hours ago||

Already very possible and super easy if you do a little vibecoding. Although it will hit the api. Have a stack polling my email every five minutes, classifying email, taking action based on the types. 30 minute coding session.

teucris 10 hours ago||

My only real disappointment with Claude is its flakiness with scheduling tasks. I have several Slack related tasks that I’ve pretty much given up trying to automate - I’ve tried Cowork and Claude Code remote agents, only to find various bugs with working with plugins and connectors. I guess I’ll give this a try, but I don’t have high hopes.

dbmikus 2 hours ago|

If you don't get it working with Claude Code Routines, would love to connect and see if we can help! We're building an open core product that can spin up sandboxed coding and control them from Slack (and also web UI, TUI, and HTTP APIs + CLIs)

We work with any coding model / harness.

website: https://www.amika.dev/

OSS repo: https://github.com/gofixpoint/amika

And my email is dylan@amika.dev (I'm one of the founders)

dispencer 11 hours ago||

This is massive. Arguably will be the start of the move to openclaw-style AI.

I bet anthropic wants to be there already but doesn't have the compute to support it yet.

dpark 9 hours ago|

What’s massive about cron jobs and webhooks? I feel like I’m missing something. This is useful functionality but also seems very straightforward.

blcknight 6 hours ago||

For the love of god fix bugs and write some fricken tests instead of dropping new shiny things

It is absolutely wild to me you guys broke `--continue` from `-p` TWO WEEKS AGO and it is still not fixed.

weird-eye-issue 4 hours ago|

--resume works fine?

blcknight 4 hours ago||

That's why I mentioned `-p`.

`--continue` and `--resume` are broken from `-p` sessions for the last 2 weeks. The use case is:

1. Do autonomous claudey thing (claude -p 'hey do this thing')

2. Do a deterministic thing

3. Reinvoke claude with `--continue`

This no longer works. I've had this workflow in GitHub actions for months and all of a sudden they broke it.

They constantly break stuff I rely on.

Skill script loading was broken for weeks a couple months ago. Hooks have been broken numerous times.

So tired of their lack of testing.

weird-eye-issue 2 hours ago||

Been working fine for me with -p

dbg31415 6 hours ago||

Seems like more vendor lock-in tactics.

Not saying it doesn’t look useful, but it’s something that keeps you from ever switching off Claude.

Next year, if Claude raises rates after getting bought by Google… what then?

And what happens when Claude goes down and misses events that were supposed to trigger Routines? I’m not at the point where I trust them to have business-dependable uptime.

ale 12 hours ago||

So MCP servers all over again? I mean at the end of the day this is yet another way of injecting data into a prompt that’s fed to a model and returned back to you.

jwpapi 6 hours ago|

All these new offers try to kill fire with fire. You don’t make the codebase better with more agents. You introduce more complicated issues.

It’s a trap.

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