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I took a photo of my ailing plant and claude advised me on how to get it healthy again (and how to take a cutting and nurture that). This is some science fiction shit. I get all the coding stories, but that's a computer talking about a computer, it makes sense. Showing my computer a picture of a plant, and it not only recognised the plant, but diagnosed it and knew what to do... blew my mind.
Today I used Claude to diagnose a blocking bug in a Steam game I really wanted to play. It took it 18 mins, but it unpacked the Godot package, figured out the bug, proposed a fix, and gave me an in game workaround.
I didn't have to do anything! Claude figured out the structure of the .pck file by using `strings`, then wrote some Python code with some magic Godot-specific code to unpack the specific chunks it needed.
"Draw a picture of a unicorn on the moon". And it did that. The model really "understood" what you told it.
After that, it was "oh, AI improved, again".
The farewell to Stack Overflow is not welcome. So many kind people shared their knowledge there. I answered a few questions as well, so not just a lurker.
It's a prelude of what's has already begun - the collapse of human-to-human communication.
I could go on and on, but Claude recently decompiled the firmware of my camper van, documented all the CAN interfaces, then programmed an ESP32 module to talk to the van’s integrated systems (power, HVAC, lighting, tanks). That sort of embedded systems integration is completely out of my wheelhouse. I honestly don’t understand AI naysayers. I use Claude every day both professionally as a Solution Architect and person…
What trillion dollar problem is AI solving?
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Yes, those tools are extremely good at reverse engineering. With a bit of know how, it is now trivial to reverse engineer any protocol or crack any software, often in a matter of hours or less. A lot of people in the industry have vested interests in this not being discussed openly so you don't hear too much about it, but the implications are huge.
What are some of the implications? Where does widely available mythos-level hacking lead? By people with a vested interest, do you mean non-cloud software vendors?
I now try to keep pushing the boundaries and see where it stops understanding my intention. Give it impossible tasks, gigantic projects, complex architectures. Last result: I wrote a complete OS including MPI, TCP/IP, and a GUI from scratch in only a week, while investing just a few hours a day in it. It even runs Doom!. Coding as a profession is over, but there's such a difference between the result if you approach this with a professional mindset, that I think the software engineering discipline can still provide massive value.
It was okay, not bad at all. No serious issues.
At the same time, me feeding a whole PDF of feedback from a client - screenshots and such - into Claude, and it fixed everything after 7 hours of reproducing and fixing things mostly unattended, creating a bunch of MRs with fixes. Most fixes were good, some were obviously not what the client wanted but technically correct (which I told Claude and it fixed it)