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An industrial piping contractor on Claude Code [video]
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Re: An industrial piping contractor on Claude Code [video]
#42I do this wirh conduit. Not as far along but definitely certain tasks in trades are prime for automation.
Tbh this is nothing new; we knew technical people with Claude code would be able to program well enough that tbey would be business developers.
Re: An industrial piping contractor on Claude Code [video]
#43Earlier quoted context omitted.
> thanks to a new lower barrier provided by LLM. New lower barrier means commodification.
Lol no it doesn't you literally have it backwards - think about the trades, specifically construction, as low barrier to entry jobs and consider that houses/buildings are all different (not commodities).
Apprentices are considered commodities here
Re: An industrial piping contractor on Claude Code [video]
#44Earlier quoted context omitted.
Lol no it doesn't you literally have it backwards - think about the trades, specifically construction, as low barrier to entry jobs and consider that houses/buildings are all different (not commodities).
Apprentices are considered commodities here
Lol you think developers aren't already commodities? You joking?
edit: i love how this is getting downvotes but no further responses. y'all are in denial. let me ask you this: why is the most common interview loop round a generic LC round? lolol
Re: An industrial piping contractor on Claude Code [video]
#45Earlier quoted context omitted.
> thanks to a new lower barrier provided by LLM. New lower barrier means commodification.
Lol no it doesn't you literally have it backwards - think about the trades, specifically construction, as low barrier to entry jobs and consider that houses/buildings are all different (not commodities).
Lol,no.
Houses/buildings are each isolated physical structures.
Software is trivially and instantly replicated, and the same software can serve millions.
Also, even in your example you're just the commodified roofer or construction worker. Not the non-commodified house.
Re: An industrial piping contractor on Claude Code [video]
#46I feel both great and awful about this. For over a decade I’ve said that nearly anyone that uses a computer could benefit from some programming understanding. A little bit can go a long way to solving problems like this. Problems that collectively slow down and block the ambitions of a huge number of people worldwide. But instead we’ve found a way to circumvent the process. Losing the understanding of your own proble…
The story is BS, btw. Firstly, pencils in space pose serious risks. Pencils produce dust, graphite dust is conductive, and won't settle down in microgravity. They were used early on, but both space agencies phased them out when they realized the risks. After that, they first moved to grease pencils, which kind of suck for normal writing. NASA didn't research how to make pens that work in space, an American private co…
Space pen is also an incredibly reliable pen here on earth too. Highly suggest people grab one.
Re: An industrial piping contractor on Claude Code [video]
#47Earlier quoted context omitted.
Apprentices are considered commodities here
Lol you think developers aren't already commodities? You joking? edit: i love how this is getting downvotes but no further responses. y'all are in denial. let me ask you this: why is the most common interview loop round a generic LC round? lolol
"Lol", do you think in lols or do you ever sit and consider something more deeply? Or maybe you think adding a lol makes the other side's argument ridiculous and yours stronger?
Skipping the lols, here's the answer to your question: doesn't matter if developers "are already commodities" to some degree.
First, because that degree is small, else developers wouldn't command such high salaries relative to other trades. So they might be commoditized compared to surgeons, but not at all compared to most office or blue collar trades.
Second, even if they are commoditized to some degree, the argument is that AI will bring further commodification. Not that it will introduce the first and foremost case of commodification in the developing world.
Re: An industrial piping contractor on Claude Code [video]
#48I've more or less accepted this, and I think my future is in making software more resilient, secure, and fault tolerant. These people will likely want to scale these solutions up, tie different solutions together, and generally make their lives increasingly difficult. Often without realizing it. My experience is that Claude starts to make quite a mess in this context, and it'll often cause as many problems as it solv…
Are we sure Claude Scale™ won’t appear next month? A specialist agent that turns your vibe coded mess into a production grade scaled solution on their infrastructure. Expect anthropic to want to capture more of the supply chain over time
Yeah which is why the solution has to be legislative. These companies are trying to take over the entire industry and even if they won’t have as good a solution as someone who only focuses on one thing they have the capital, distribution and name recognition to kill any upstarts
Re: An industrial piping contractor on Claude Code [video]
#49Earlier quoted context omitted.
Apprentices are considered commodities here
Lol you think developers aren't already commodities? You joking? edit: i love how this is getting downvotes but no further responses. y'all are in denial. let me ask you this: why is the most common interview loop round a generic LC round? lolol
I was pointing out the reference wasn't pointing at the house but the apprentice.
Lower barrier to entry means the developers are even more interchangeable than now.
Re: An industrial piping contractor on Claude Code [video]
#50How is a mechanical engineer a “trade worker.”
Most engineers have to take at least one programming class in college.