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Claude is not your architect. Stop letting it pretend

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Re: Claude is not your architect. Stop letting it pretend

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Post by hmokiguess »

duckmysick wrote: post #152
hmokiguess wrote: post #148

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What is an instancing system?

To better scale the game infrastructure, instead of letting every player on the same big server, they are put in different smaller servers (instances). Players can interact with other players on the same instance (see them, do quests together, trade, etc.). Sort of like AWS instances. Normally instances are random within the same region, but usually there's a system in place so you can join the same one as your frien…

Ah gotcha, I never heard that called that way. I'm familiar with matchmaking systems and VM provisioning, but never heard the term "instancing" haha. Thanks for answering me!

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Post by gchamonlive »

operatingthetan wrote: post #192
gchamonlive wrote: post #164

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And what's the difference between that machine and LLMs?

You are using poor (inverse) analogies and don't seem to be actually addressing anthropomorphism.

I did in my first comment, you just didn't agree with my point that subservience doesn't require anthropomorphism, but didn't bother to address why.

Also, you didn't address my question, what's the difference between them?

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Post by bunderbunder »

himata4113 wrote: post #158
bunderbunder wrote: post #141

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> AI is only as good as the person using it I think it might be even worse than that. It seems to be a multiplier for the Dunning-Kruger effect. Possibly because being trained to exhibit positive demeanor means that it will always tell you you're the best, no matter what.

Not sure why I saw this getting downvoted. This is exactly what is happening to that person, they think they are way more capable then they really are that's why they're taking on hard challenges and high complexity tasks when they're not ready for it.

And I do think it's important to be aware of this. When I've got a good idea, the agent says, "Good idea!" When I've got a bad idea, the coding agent also says, "Good idea!" And I'm most inclined to just go with what when I'm outside my realm of expertise, because that's the time when the coding agent promises to save me the most time. Because developing a proper understanding of things like the problem space and tech stack is often the most time-consuming part of the job.

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Post by imankulov »

Like others mentioned, I like the framing of treating Claude Code as a tool (and I had to remind myself of it constantly).

Like any tool, it takes effort to master and configure. Before LLMs, I used cookiecutter templates to codify my best practices. Now I invest in custom skills and context management so the tool produces solutions that match my standards and team conventions.

I agree with the author that the craft still matters, and probably now more than ever. I'd add that mastering and configuring your agent is now part of the craft.

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Post by daheza »

jjav wrote: post #195
otar wrote: post #123

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> AI is only as good as the person using it, that's why we have such vast range of what people "claim" AI can do and why everyone has way different opinions of it. Banger statement.

> > AI is only as good as the person using it, that's why we have such vast range of what people "claim" AI can do and why everyone has way different opinions of it. > Banger statement. True, but it's even a bit more removed than that. For a version 0.9 prototype, AI can produce pretty awesome-feeling output even in the hands of the most incompetent. So it looks like a miracle that does it all, with zero effort. It's…

We’ve got this C Level guy at my work, who’s in charge of the AI offerings at our company. Every few weeks he does a presentation to the entire company where he pulls up this vibe coded locally hosted html file that is supposed to be this huge new workforce solution. It’s so scary to see him present this as if it’s working and not just a locally hosted mockup at best. Sales and Marketing do not see this as just a design presentation instead seeing something they can actively sell. I don’t know when this will backfire on us, when I brought it up to our VP he said “well maybe he’s selling the idea and a few years down the road after the contracts are signed they will build it”. I think this is just how corporate America is going to work now.

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Post by AndrewKemendo »

Npovview wrote: post #199
AndrewKemendo wrote: post #176

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No, I don’t know what those are. (Looked them up and I don’t teach every possible handler, but I teach people how to do structured inputs etc..) I teach TDD philosophy as well as conways law, parnas hiding etc…without using those terms So things like problem decomposition into tractable chunks minimum viable product, prototyping, how do you iterate, write the smallest possible test… you know things like this which ar…

Follow these channels or videos for better understanding of skills and how they are using it. https://www.youtube.com/@mattpocockuk https://www.youtube.com/@EricWTech https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eRS3CmvrOvA

That’s too specific to claude and tooling to last

All this stuff is going to be obsolete in like 6 months

Re: Claude is not your architect. Stop letting it pretend

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Post by matthewsinclair »

I’ve had some pretty good results with Claude Code over the last 18 months or so, and “agentic engineering” (as opposed to “vibe coding”) is now very tightly integrated into my workflow. But it’s pretty easy to see how it can devolve to Dunning-Krueger-as-a-service if you don’t know what you’re doing. Which sadly appears to be the case far more often than it’s not right now.
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