Bluetooth? If Claude is so smart, why didn't it suggest just calling the number? But that wouldn't have sold its astonishing ability to miss the obvious and take the scenic route.
Lost my phone at the office. Claude suggested tracking Bluetooth signal strength
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#212Yesterday my 8yo prompted (using voice recognition) Claude to make a game where it would play her a song (say Twinkle) and she had to play it back and get scored. The UI was a nice piano with visual feedback. The laptop key served as the keys until I prompted for midi support so she could use the electric piano. The whole thing took about 15 minutes. Meanwhile, one peak at the code and you can already see the state s…
>A lot of code is being written and a lot of it is going to be a real future burden. I don't think we'll be looking at code at all within the next few years. I know I already don't anymore. The code is not the product for me, and as long as any model, commercial or local, can maintain it (or recreate it), I'm fine. When I make a drawing in a vector drawing program I don't export to PostScript to see if they calculate…
Can they maintain it though? What's the biggest/longest running project you have where you don't look at the code?
Re: Lost my phone at the office. Claude suggested tracking Bluetooth signal strength
#213So GIMP kept crashing on me when importing 48 bit TIFFs. I threw a trace at Codex (without so much as a local GIMP repo) from which it figured out that the culprit was thumb preview handling code. It suggested turning off two non-obvious to me options that would circumvent that codepath it indeed worked.
Hi! Would you be willing to share one of those TIFFs? If we can reproduce the crash, we can try to fix it.
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#214Earlier quoted context omitted.
> A lot of code is being written and a lot of it is going to be a real future burden. This assumes that the models of the future won't find it easier to just throw the code away and rebuild it This also assumes that the same application build by humans wouldn't become a "spaghetti mess".
You use an AI to make the spaghetti. You use another AI to document the spaghetti. You use the third AI to make a spicy meatball from the spec.
One problem I’ve found is that AI will happily document the most trivial of implementation details as *immutable product design*, making it very poor at automated cleanup. I have to constantly coax it saying “WHY are we doing that? That’s not a requirement anybody asked for!”
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#215Re: Lost my phone at the office. Claude suggested tracking Bluetooth signal strength
#216Yesterday my 8yo prompted (using voice recognition) Claude to make a game where it would play her a song (say Twinkle) and she had to play it back and get scored. The UI was a nice piano with visual feedback. The laptop key served as the keys until I prompted for midi support so she could use the electric piano. The whole thing took about 15 minutes. Meanwhile, one peak at the code and you can already see the state s…
> “…8yo prompted (using voice recognition) Claude to make a game…”
And we thought it would be _visual programming_ that brought children to programming. Cool. Its logic.
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#217OP works at a robotics company, hence the inability to use Google search and "git clone" to find dozens of ready made apps, some of them years old.
What's google search? The product as we know it is effectively dead. There is no future in which the URL bar isn't just an AI chat input. It's up to the model to search for you, if it decides that's the fastest way to an answer.
I literally pay for Kagi search, to keep the old school search experience. That will be my future and I’m happy with that
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#218Somehow, on HN, suggesting to use an LLM to solve some problem gives you negative responses. But then ... posting to HN that you've used an LLM to solve a problem is OK?
HN isn’t a monolithic bloc. A good part of the HN audience is very pro AI, another part is very skeptical. You have enough of each group to promote both sides. If HN posts could be downvoted things might bend hard one direction but with only upvotes you get a mix
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#219Re: Lost my phone at the office. Claude suggested tracking Bluetooth signal strength
#220Yesterday my 8yo prompted (using voice recognition) Claude to make a game where it would play her a song (say Twinkle) and she had to play it back and get scored. The UI was a nice piano with visual feedback. The laptop key served as the keys until I prompted for midi support so she could use the electric piano. The whole thing took about 15 minutes. Meanwhile, one peak at the code and you can already see the state s…
> “…8yo prompted (using voice recognition) Claude to make a game…” And we thought it would be _visual programming_ that brought children to programming. Cool. Its logic.
Yeah, Scratch helped bootstrap so many folks, but that was a generation ago -- I can't imagine exhorting children to learn to code with Scratch (or any other Visual Programming Language) in good faith today.
If you're trying to get away from the burden of syntax or other onerous aspects of coding, well then just use an AI coding assistant. OTOH, if you (for some reason) want to learn a textual programming language, then write code in that language yourself.