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There needs to be a word for the feeling of sudden realization that you're reading an AI-generated text (or watching an AI-generated video) where you expected it to be human-authored.
Uncanny valley
Slopstricken.
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Re: Show HN: NanoClaw – “Clawdbot” in 500 lines of TS with Apple container isolation
#112I think these days if I’m going to be actively promoting code I’ve created (with Claude, no shade for that), I’ll make sure to write the documentation, or at the very least the readme, by hand. The smell of LLM from the docs of any project puts me off even when I like the idea of the project itself, as in this case. It’s hard to describe why - maybe it feels like if you care enough to promote it, you should care to t…
OP here. Appreciate your perspective but I don't really accept the framing, which feels like it's implying that I've been caught out for writing and coding with AI. I don't make any attempt to hide it. Nearly every commit message says "Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.5". You correctly pointed out that there were some AI smells in the writing, so I removed them, just like I correct typos, and the writing is now better.…
For example - I checked src/, and there’s clearly more than ~500 lines of code, ignoring the other dirs. I’m on mobile, maybe someone else can run wc -l on the repo and confirm. Is there a reason this number is inaccurately stated? Immediately makes me wary of the vibe coded nature of it.
Re: Show HN: NanoClaw – “Clawdbot” in 500 lines of TS with Apple container isolation
#113Earlier quoted context omitted.
Hey, you do you, I’m glad you appreciate my perspective. I wasn’t trying to catch you out but I see how it came across that way - I apologise for my edit, I had hoped the ;) would show that I meant it in jest rather than in meanness but I shouldn’t have added it in the first place. As I said in my comment, no shade for writing the code with Claude. I do it too, every day. I wasn’t “irked” by the readme, and I did rea…
There needs to be a word for the feeling of sudden realization that you're reading an AI-generated text (or watching an AI-generated video) where you expected it to be human-authored.
AI erlebnis.
Re: Show HN: NanoClaw – “Clawdbot” in 500 lines of TS with Apple container isolation
#114> running it scares the crap out of me A hundred times this. It's fine until it isn't. And jacking these Claws into shared conversation spaces is quite literally pushing the afterburners to max on simonw's lethal trifecta. A lot of people are going to get burned hard by this. Every blackhat is eyes-on this right now - we're literally giving a drunk robot the keys to everything.
It turns out the lethal trifecta is not so lethal. Should a business avoid hiring employees since technically employees can steal from the cash register. The lethal trifecta is about binary security. Either the data can be taken or it can't. This may be overly cautious. It may be possible that hiring an employee has a positive expected value when when you account for the possibility of one stealing from the cash regi…
Employees are humans and therefore subject to the law. There are remedies. And you can point a camera at the cash register.
Who are you going to arrest and/or sue when you run a chat bot "at your own risk" and it shoots you in the foot?
Re: Show HN: NanoClaw – “Clawdbot” in 500 lines of TS with Apple container isolation
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The art department is that way, we do engineering here. Faster is better.
What part of faster is better means engineering to you? Non engineers will prefer you get there faster, but however you get there, better is better.
If you want to say something just say it no need for trap questions.
Faster delivery of a project being better for engineering is obviously one of the most important things because it gives you back time to invest in other parts of your project. All engineering is trade-offs. Being faster at developing basic code is better, the end. If nothing else you can now spend more time on requirements and on a second iteration with your customer.
Re: Show HN: NanoClaw – “Clawdbot” in 500 lines of TS with Apple container isolation
#116> AI-native. No installation wizard; Claude Code guides setup. No monitoring dashboard; ask Claude what's happening. No debugging tools; describe the problem, Claude fixes it. > Skills over features. Contributors shouldn't add features (e.g. support for Telegram) to the codebase. Instead, they contribute claude code skills like /add-telegram that transform your fork. I’m interested to see how this model pans out. I c…
I think the more interesting question is were tools the right abstraction. What is the implication of having only a single "shell" tool. Should the infinite possibilities to few happen by the AI having limited tools or should whatever the shell calls have the limitations applied there. Tools in a way are redundant.
Re: Show HN: NanoClaw – “Clawdbot” in 500 lines of TS with Apple container isolation
#117Earlier quoted context omitted.
It turns out the lethal trifecta is not so lethal. Should a business avoid hiring employees since technically employees can steal from the cash register. The lethal trifecta is about binary security. Either the data can be taken or it can't. This may be overly cautious. It may be possible that hiring an employee has a positive expected value when when you account for the possibility of one stealing from the cash regi…
Employees are humans and therefore subject to the law. There are remedies. And you can point a camera at the cash register. Who are you going to arrest and/or sue when you run a chat bot "at your own risk" and it shoots you in the foot?
If your chatbot provided you 1.5 feet worth of value before shooting your foot it may have been worth it. The optimal self damage to maximize total value may be non 0.
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#119Earlier quoted context omitted.
”I don't care deeply about this code. It's not a masterpiece. It's functional code that is very useful to me.” - AI software engineering in a nutshell. Leaving the human artisan era of code behind. Function over form. Substance over style. Getting stuff done.
There should never have been an "artisan era". We use computers to solve problems. You should have always getting stuff done instead of bikeshedding over nitty-gritty details, like when in the office people have been spending weeks on optimizing code... just to have the exact same output, exact same time, but now "nicer". You get paid to get stuff done, period.
Yeah. Exactly the same as there should never be an “artisan era” for chairs, tables, buildings, etc.
Hell even art! Why should art even be a thing? We are machine driven by neurons, feelings do not exist.
Might be your life, it ain’t mine. I’m an artisan of code, and I’m proud to be one. I might finally use AI one of these days at work because I’ll have to, but I’ll never stop cherishing doing hand-crafted code.
Re: Show HN: NanoClaw – “Clawdbot” in 500 lines of TS with Apple container isolation
#120Earlier quoted context omitted.
What part of faster is better means engineering to you? Non engineers will prefer you get there faster, but however you get there, better is better.
If you want to say something just say it no need for trap questions. Faster delivery of a project being better for engineering is obviously one of the most important things because it gives you back time to invest in other parts of your project. All engineering is trade-offs. Being faster at developing basic code is better, the end. If nothing else you can now spend more time on requirements and on a second iteration…
> obviously one of the most important things because it gives you back time to invest in other parts of your project
That is until you get so deep in code debt that you cannot move anymore.
There is an equilibrium to be found. Faster is not always better, and trying to have every single line perfect is not good either.