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You probably aren't addicted to CC, I suspect you are just hopping from idea to idea too quickly because these new tools allow for it.
I spend a lot of time at my org doing one of the following things:
1. figuring out how to onboard engineers and bootstrap them to do their own work to draw down their backlogs
2. show the team cool ideas to spark their interest or bring them from “I’m never using this useless crap AI” to “oh, wow, I never thought of that… fires up a terminal and creates own cool thing”
3. creating a backlog of other things people want to automate but never wrote down/thought through that Claude can do in short order for immediate value
I know dozens of people who are in a similar state right now, following the November 2025 moment when Claude Code (and Codex) got really good . I wouldn't worry about it just yet - this is all very novel, and there's a lot of excitement involved in figuring out what it can do and trying different things. If you're still addicted to it in three months time I'd start to be concerned. For the moment though you're buildi…
My question would be how much we think the processes will change as the models do. Much advice from two years ago is no longer relevant or realistic. Where do we think it will go next?
Does anyone have a really good way to explain to their relatives and friends how using an agent is different from simply using Google? Just saying ‘fundamentally different’ doesn’t go very far; the best I’ve found is sitting down and giving a demonstration.
It’s also difficult to explain the enormous gap between frontier models and the free ones many people are accustomed to using. Is there a tangible comparison to a normie real-life ‘thing’ that anyone has used successfully?
you're fine. have you made any sankey charts? nsfw: https://seidt.quest/s/aella/ i am waiting for someone to surpass the original steam engine sankey diagram: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:JIE_Sankey_V5_Fig1.p...
what. did. I. just. witness.
the diagram is calculated with d3-sankey & rendered with imgui. you can stretch that window however you want—ok, enough.
edit: the original steam-engine sankey diagram created a far stronger emotional reaction in me. the aella chart is just more modern, i guess?
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46934404
I know dozens of people who are in a similar state right now, following the November 2025 moment when Claude Code (and Codex) got really good . I wouldn't worry about it just yet - this is all very novel, and there's a lot of excitement involved in figuring out what it can do and trying different things. If you're still addicted to it in three months time I'd start to be concerned. For the moment though you're buildi…
Your mental model point is very true. We all had to learn how to google at some point — explaining how to use these tools to someone outside the bubble feels like explaining how googling works to someone. Much of it is intuitive understanding from experience. My question would be how much we think the processes will change as the models do. Much advice from two years ago is no longer relevant or realistic. Where do w…
ChatGPT and Claude can both execute code now, so a safe subset is to show people how to upload files there and have them do useful things with the data.
I was on a company retreat last month. My coworker was on their phone the whole time on the bus ride over to dinner I finally looked over and it was a Claude Code session. The addiction is real.
Jokes aside, my relationship with my wife is always top priority, kids are priority, health is priority. With those 3 I have about 2 hours per day for myself and yeah, you can use them however you like