Claude is good at assembling blocks, but still falls apart at creating them
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Claude is good at assembling blocks, but still falls apart at creating them
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Re: Claude is good at assembling blocks, but still falls apart at creating them
#2In my experience Claude is like a "good junior developer" -- can do some things really well, FUBARS other things, but on the whole something to which tasks can be delegated if things are well explained. If/when it gets to the ability level of a mid-level engineer it will be revolutionary. Typically a mid-level engineer can be relied upon to do the right thing with no/minimal oversight, can figure out incomplete instructions, and deliver quality results (and even train up the juniors on some things). At that point the only reason to have human junior engineers is so they can learn their way up the ladder to being an architect and responsible coordinating swarms of Claude Agents to develop whole applications and complete complex tasks and initiatives.
Beyond that what can Claude do... analyze the business and market as a whole and decide on product features, industry inefficiencies, gap analysis, and then define projects to address those and coordinate fleets of agents to change or even radically pivot an entire business?
I don't think we'll get to the point where all you have is a CEO and a massive Claude account but it's not completely science fiction the more I think about it.
Re: Claude is good at assembling blocks, but still falls apart at creating them
#3In my experience Claude is like a "good junior developer" -- can do some things really well, FUBARS other things, but on the whole something to which tasks can be delegated if things are well explained. If/when it gets to the ability level of a mid-level engineer it will be revolutionary. Typically a mid-level engineer can be relied upon to do the right thing with no/minimal oversight, can figure out incomplete instr…
> I don't think we'll get to the point where all you have is a CEO and a massive Claude account but it's not completely science fiction the more I think about it.
At that point, why do you even need the CEO?
Re: Claude is good at assembling blocks, but still falls apart at creating them
#4In my experience Claude is like a "good junior developer" -- can do some things really well, FUBARS other things, but on the whole something to which tasks can be delegated if things are well explained. If/when it gets to the ability level of a mid-level engineer it will be revolutionary. Typically a mid-level engineer can be relied upon to do the right thing with no/minimal oversight, can figure out incomplete instr…
> I don't think we'll get to the point where all you have is a CEO and a massive Claude account but it's not completely science fiction the more I think about it. At that point, why do you even need the CEO?
And who does he sell his software to? Companies that have only 1 employee, don’t need a lot of user licenses for their employees…
Re: Claude is good at assembling blocks, but still falls apart at creating them
#5In my experience Claude is like a "good junior developer" -- can do some things really well, FUBARS other things, but on the whole something to which tasks can be delegated if things are well explained. If/when it gets to the ability level of a mid-level engineer it will be revolutionary. Typically a mid-level engineer can be relied upon to do the right thing with no/minimal oversight, can figure out incomplete instr…
> I don't think we'll get to the point where all you have is a CEO and a massive Claude account but it's not completely science fiction the more I think about it. At that point, why do you even need the CEO?
Reminds me of an old joke[0]:
> The factory of the future will have only two employees, a man and a dog. The man will be there to feed the dog. The dog will be there to keep the man from touching the equipment.
But really, the reason is that people like Pieter Levels do exist: masters at product vision and marketing. He also happens to be a proficient programmer, but there are probably other versions of him which are not programmers who will find the bar to product easier to meet now.
Re: Claude is good at assembling blocks, but still falls apart at creating them
#6In my experience Claude is like a "good junior developer" -- can do some things really well, FUBARS other things, but on the whole something to which tasks can be delegated if things are well explained. If/when it gets to the ability level of a mid-level engineer it will be revolutionary. Typically a mid-level engineer can be relied upon to do the right thing with no/minimal oversight, can figure out incomplete instr…
> I don't think we'll get to the point where all you have is a CEO and a massive Claude account but it's not completely science fiction the more I think about it. At that point, why do you even need the CEO?
As Steinbeck is often slightly misquoted:
> Socialism never took root in America because the poor see themselves not as an exploited proletariat, but as temporarily embarrassed millionaires.
Same deal here, but everyone imagines themselves as the billionaire CEO in charge of the perfectly compliant and effective AI.
Re: Claude is good at assembling blocks, but still falls apart at creating them
#7In my experience Claude is like a "good junior developer" -- can do some things really well, FUBARS other things, but on the whole something to which tasks can be delegated if things are well explained. If/when it gets to the ability level of a mid-level engineer it will be revolutionary. Typically a mid-level engineer can be relied upon to do the right thing with no/minimal oversight, can figure out incomplete instr…
> I don't think we'll get to the point where all you have is a CEO and a massive Claude account but it's not completely science fiction the more I think about it. At that point, why do you even need the CEO?
For the network.
Re: Claude is good at assembling blocks, but still falls apart at creating them
#8LLMs are just really good search. Ask it to create something and it's searching within the pretrained weights. Ask it to find something and it's semantically searching within your codebase. Ask it to modify something and it will do both. Once you understand its just search, you can get really good results.
Re: Claude is good at assembling blocks, but still falls apart at creating them
#9In my experience Claude is like a "good junior developer" -- can do some things really well, FUBARS other things, but on the whole something to which tasks can be delegated if things are well explained. If/when it gets to the ability level of a mid-level engineer it will be revolutionary. Typically a mid-level engineer can be relied upon to do the right thing with no/minimal oversight, can figure out incomplete instr…
> I don't think we'll get to the point where all you have is a CEO and a massive Claude account but it's not completely science fiction the more I think about it. At that point, why do you even need the CEO?
All of us are a CEO by that point.
Re: Claude is good at assembling blocks, but still falls apart at creating them
#10Earlier quoted context omitted.
> I don't think we'll get to the point where all you have is a CEO and a massive Claude account but it's not completely science fiction the more I think about it. At that point, why do you even need the CEO?
All of us are a CEO by that point.
If everyone is, no one is.