nice!
Claude Sonnet 5
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Re: Claude Sonnet 5
#612Earlier quoted context omitted.
They're actively trying to use lobbying power to make open weight models illegal. So I'm just not going to use their services at all anymore. I don't think they're a net gain if you're a skilled senior, and the hidden cost in terms of technical debt and skill atrophy is just being swept under the rug. I'll be okay without their bullshit generator.
> I don't think they're a net gain if you're a skilled senior I'm a skilled senior (I'm 54 and been coding since I was about 8; I've been 100% AI-generated code for at least 6 months now and have produced a combination of speed and quality that has astonished me; my velocity is apparent at https://github.com/pmarreck/ ) and this has been a massive net gain, so your claim is now officially in sheer defiance of reality…
Finally, someone said it. 20+ years in software and my productivity and velocity is wild right now.
Re: Claude Sonnet 5
#613Earlier quoted context omitted.
They're actively trying to use lobbying power to make open weight models illegal. So I'm just not going to use their services at all anymore. I don't think they're a net gain if you're a skilled senior, and the hidden cost in terms of technical debt and skill atrophy is just being swept under the rug. I'll be okay without their bullshit generator.
Why even bother posting, especially as a reply to a completely unrelated comment? This is just not substantive or useful to the conversation. (And I say this as someone who agrees with you that it's garbage that these companies are trying to legislate their way into an oligopoly.)
> Why even bother posting, especially as a reply to a completely unrelated comment?
Re: Claude Sonnet 5
#614Earlier quoted context omitted.
They're actively trying to use lobbying power to make open weight models illegal. So I'm just not going to use their services at all anymore. I don't think they're a net gain if you're a skilled senior, and the hidden cost in terms of technical debt and skill atrophy is just being swept under the rug. I'll be okay without their bullshit generator.
> I don't think they're a net gain if you're a skilled senior I'm a skilled senior (I'm 54 and been coding since I was about 8; I've been 100% AI-generated code for at least 6 months now and have produced a combination of speed and quality that has astonished me; my velocity is apparent at https://github.com/pmarreck/ ) and this has been a massive net gain, so your claim is now officially in sheer defiance of reality…
I believe you are miscalculating the effect of skill atrophy, there is benefit and actual experience gained by doing the work yourself. You are an experienced dev and already have a lot of tools and knowledge under your belt so at the moment it is hard to see the actual issue, as this is just a productivity multiplierfor you. But give it a couple of years working under these conditions, your tech savvy nature will be severely diminished.
Re: Claude Sonnet 5
#615Earlier quoted context omitted.
That's possibly the worst pelican I saw from all recent LLMs. Meanwhile GLM 5.2 drew a cool self-contained fully animated SVG pelican: https://simonwillison.net/2026/Jun/17/glm-52
Yeah, GLM have been beating Anthropic on the pelicans for a while now. (I suspect that's more of an indication that Anthropic have chosen not to waste resources training on animals riding vehicles, personally.)
This is interesting, I haven’t actually heard you suggest that the labs are focusing on this benchmark before. Have you come around to this position as a result of the quality of pelicans you’ve been getting?
The reason I thought this was an interesting benchmark is because it’s a non-image generating model creating an image using SVG code, so it kinda spans capabilities.
If an AI lab trained a model specifically for animals riding bicycles it seem trivial to modify the prompt and determine if it was trained specifically for that or if it’s generalized a skill and can also generate a proper orangutan walking on stilts or an armadillo on a skateboard, this sort of thing?
Re: Claude Sonnet 5
#616Earlier quoted context omitted.
> I don't think they're a net gain if you're a skilled senior I'm a skilled senior (I'm 54 and been coding since I was about 8; I've been 100% AI-generated code for at least 6 months now and have produced a combination of speed and quality that has astonished me; my velocity is apparent at https://github.com/pmarreck/ ) and this has been a massive net gain, so your claim is now officially in sheer defiance of reality…
I am another skilled senior, have been coding since I was 7, although you have a few more years of experience on me, and am commenting here just for the goldilocks moment, as I have read and reflected on both of your comments and find my reality is somewhere in the middle. On personal projects, where I am in charge of all the hats (product development, UI, UX, backend, security, server admin, etc) -- absolutely crazy…
+1
the distinction between personal projects and Enterprise development is a big one. A severe bug in my personal projects, i fix it on the fly. A bug in our products rolled out, nightmare.
Re: Claude Sonnet 5
#617Earlier quoted context omitted.
> I don't think they're a net gain if you're a skilled senior I'm a skilled senior (I'm 54 and been coding since I was about 8; I've been 100% AI-generated code for at least 6 months now and have produced a combination of speed and quality that has astonished me; my velocity is apparent at https://github.com/pmarreck/ ) and this has been a massive net gain, so your claim is now officially in sheer defiance of reality…
I think I might have written a comment similar to yours maybe 6 months or a year ago. I'm not quite sure to respond to these sorts of replies. I have used LLMs/Claude Code quite extensively professionally and was a very early adopter, have built tooling around LLM/agentic development, and genuinely embraced it. They aren't useless, but the short term gains you think you're getting come at a very steep price that you…
> a very steep price that you may not actually account for
Could you elaborate on this steep price that you have in mind? What does it consist of?
Re: Claude Sonnet 5
#618Earlier quoted context omitted.
> I don't think they're a net gain if you're a skilled senior I'm a skilled senior (I'm 54 and been coding since I was about 8; I've been 100% AI-generated code for at least 6 months now and have produced a combination of speed and quality that has astonished me; my velocity is apparent at https://github.com/pmarreck/ ) and this has been a massive net gain, so your claim is now officially in sheer defiance of reality…
I believe you are miscalculating the effect of skill atrophy, there is benefit and actual experience gained by doing the work yourself. You are an experienced dev and already have a lot of tools and knowledge under your belt so at the moment it is hard to see the actual issue, as this is just a productivity multiplierfor you. But give it a couple of years working under these conditions, your tech savvy nature will be…
In a couple of years he will be 60, too. Then 65, then 70.
Seniors will be able to stay in the game much longer than before, mark my words.
Re: Claude Sonnet 5
#619Earlier quoted context omitted.
I think I might have written a comment similar to yours maybe 6 months or a year ago. I'm not quite sure to respond to these sorts of replies. I have used LLMs/Claude Code quite extensively professionally and was a very early adopter, have built tooling around LLM/agentic development, and genuinely embraced it. They aren't useless, but the short term gains you think you're getting come at a very steep price that you…
> a very steep price that you may not actually account for Could you elaborate on this steep price that you have in mind? What does it consist of?
From what I gather from GPs upper post: Technical debt, skill atrophy, delusions of grandeur about one's own abilities / psychosis.
Re: Claude Sonnet 5
#620Earlier quoted context omitted.
I think I might have written a comment similar to yours maybe 6 months or a year ago. I'm not quite sure to respond to these sorts of replies. I have used LLMs/Claude Code quite extensively professionally and was a very early adopter, have built tooling around LLM/agentic development, and genuinely embraced it. They aren't useless, but the short term gains you think you're getting come at a very steep price that you…
> a very steep price that you may not actually account for Could you elaborate on this steep price that you have in mind? What does it consist of?
The cost is skill atrophy. When was the last time you wrote something entirely from scratch by hand without AI assistance? It’s a skill entirely separate from prompting and reviewing. And it atrophies when you stop using it.