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Re: Snorting the AGI with Claude Code

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Post by paulluuk »

leptons wrote: post #111
ed_mercer wrote: post #105

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Exactly. It has access to literally everything including any MCP server. It's so awesome having claude code check my database using a read-only user, or have it open a puppeteer browser and check whether its CSS changes look weird or not. It's the perfect interface and anthropic nailed it. It can even debug my k8s cluster using kubectl commands and check prometheus over the API, how awesome is this?

> or have it open a puppeteer browser and check whether its CSS changes look weird or not. It's got 7 fingers? Looks fine to me! - AI

Me laughing as a human non-frontend dev having to do anything related to CSS

The number of times that my manager or coworkers have rejected proposals for technical solutions because I can't make a webpage look halfway decent is too damn high.

Re: Snorting the AGI with Claude Code

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Post by crucialfelix »

WD-42 wrote: post #127
mjrbrennan wrote: post #99

Not trying to be rude here, but that `last_week.md` is horrible to me. I can't imagine having to read that let alone listen to the computer say it to me. It's so much blah blah and fluff that reads like a bad PR piece. I'd much rather scan through commits of the last week. I've found this generally with AI summaries...usually their writing style is terrible, and I feel like I cannot really trust them to get the facts…

I felt the same thing about the onboarding. Like what future are we trying to build for ourselves here, exactly? The kind where instead of sitting down with a coworker to learn about a codebase, instead we get an ai generated PowerPoint to read alone???? Im so over this timeline.

Usually the tricks and problems in a codebase are not in the codebase at all, they are in somebody's head.

It would be helpful if I had a long rambling dialogue with a chat model and it distilled that.

Re: Snorting the AGI with Claude Code

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Post by qsort »

empireofdust wrote: post #101
qsort wrote: post #21

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The vilification of juniors and the abandonment of the idea that teaching and mentoring are worthwhile are single-handedly making me speedrun burnout. May a hundred years of Microsoft Visio befall anybody who thinks that way.

What’s the best implementation of junior training or teaching/mentoring in general within tech that you’ve seen?

Unless you're running a police state environment where every minute of company time is tracked, enough opportunities for it to happen organically exist that it's not a matter of how you organize it, it's a matter of culture. Give them as much responsibility as they can handle and they'll be the ones reaching out to you.

Re: Snorting the AGI with Claude Code

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Post by baq »

Agentlien wrote: post #157
JohnMakin wrote: post #134

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all of this just reads like the supposed UML zeitgeist that was supposed to transform java and eliminate development 20 years ago if this is all ultimately java but with even more steps, its a sign im definitely getting old. it’s just the same pattern of non technical people deceiving themselves into believing they dont need to be technical to build tech and then ultimately resulting in again 10-20 years of re-learni…

Of all the things I read at uni UML is the thing I've felt the least use for - even when designing new systems. I've had more use for things I never thought I'd need like Rayleigh scattering and processor design.

UML was a buzzword, but a sequence diagram can sometimes replace a few hundred words of dry text. People think best in 2d.

Re: Snorting the AGI with Claude Code

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Post by mejutoco »

drcode wrote: post #22
jasonthorsness wrote: post #16

The terminal really is sort of the perfect interface for an LLM; I wonder whether this approach will become favored over the custom IDE integrations.

sort of, except I think the future of llms will be to to have the llm try 5 separate attempts to create a fix in parallel, since llm time is cheaper than human time... and once you introduce this aspect into the workflow, you'll want to spin up multiple containers, and the benefits of the terminal aren't as strong anymore.

Why would spinning containers remove the benefits? Presumably there is a terminal too interacting with the containers.

Re: Snorting the AGI with Claude Code

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Post by dwringer »

crucialfelix wrote: post #162
WD-42 wrote: post #127

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I felt the same thing about the onboarding. Like what future are we trying to build for ourselves here, exactly? The kind where instead of sitting down with a coworker to learn about a codebase, instead we get an ai generated PowerPoint to read alone???? Im so over this timeline.

Usually the tricks and problems in a codebase are not in the codebase at all, they are in somebody's head. It would be helpful if I had a long rambling dialogue with a chat model and it distilled that.

> It would be helpful if I had a long rambling dialogue with a chat model and it distilled that.

IME this can work pretty well with Gemini in the web UI. If it misinterprets you at any stage you can edit your last comment until it gets on the same page, so to speak. Then once you're to a point in the conversation where you're satisfied it seems to "get it", you can drop in some more directly relevant context like example code if needed and ask for what you want.

Re: Snorting the AGI with Claude Code

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Post by eru »

drcode wrote: post #22
jasonthorsness wrote: post #16

The terminal really is sort of the perfect interface for an LLM; I wonder whether this approach will become favored over the custom IDE integrations.

sort of, except I think the future of llms will be to to have the llm try 5 separate attempts to create a fix in parallel, since llm time is cheaper than human time... and once you introduce this aspect into the workflow, you'll want to spin up multiple containers, and the benefits of the terminal aren't as strong anymore.

Nah, if parallelism will help, it'll be abstracted away from the user.

Re: Snorting the AGI with Claude Code

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Post by [deleted] »

mjrbrennan wrote: post #99

Not trying to be rude here, but that `last_week.md` is horrible to me. I can't imagine having to read that let alone listen to the computer say it to me. It's so much blah blah and fluff that reads like a bad PR piece. I'd much rather scan through commits of the last week. I've found this generally with AI summaries...usually their writing style is terrible, and I feel like I cannot really trust them to get the facts…

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Re: Snorting the AGI with Claude Code

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Post by eru »

datameta wrote: post #117
BoredPositron wrote: post #107

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voice is probably the worst human -> compute interface we have.

Human speech evolved with biological constraints and through neurological adaptions to emit and understand the nonlinear output that has lexically fuzzy areas to the untrained ear. So I think it's a rather "lossy" analog to digital conversion because the computer is simulating understanding of a form of information transfer that it itself is not constrained by (digital systems don't have vocal cords and could transmi…

You could say that about any form of human communication at all.
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