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Re: Snorting the AGI with Claude Code

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Post by dghlsakjg » Tue, Jun 17, 2025, 2:26 PM UTC

TeMPOraL wrote: post #200

xandrius wrote: post #190

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What kind of podcast have you listened to, if any? They aren't all Joe Rogan.

Name one that isn't > 90% fluff and human interaction sounds.

Conversations with Tyler Cowen, Complex Systems with patio11 are two off the top of my head that concentrate on useful information, and certainly aren't "> 90% fluff and human interaction sounds".

Unless of course people talking in any capacity is human interaction sounds, in which case, yes, every podcast is > 90% human interaction sounds.

Re: Snorting the AGI with Claude Code

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Post by dghlsakjg » Tue, Jun 17, 2025, 2:27 PM UTC

bluefirebrand wrote: post #97

handfuloflight wrote: post #92

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But what do we do if the closed models are just better?

Steal from them shamelessly, the same way they stole from everyone else?

Isn't abusing the OpenAI terms of service part of how Deepseek did training?

Re: Snorting the AGI with Claude Code

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Post by dghlsakjg » Tue, Jun 17, 2025, 2:40 PM UTC

cpard wrote: post #159

SamPatt wrote: post #3

>Claude code feels more powerful than cursor, but why? One of the reasons seems it's ability to be scripted. At the end of the day, cursor is an editor, while claude code is a swiss army knife (on steroids). Agreed, and I find that I use Claude Code on more than traditional code bases. I run it in my Obsidian vault for all kinds of things. I run it to build local custom keyboard bindings with scripts that publish scr…

How do you script Claude code? I've been using it as a CLI but haven't thought of invoking Claude code through a script, sounds very interesting.

Read the article. Basically just using aliases for specififc prompts.

Re: Snorting the AGI with Claude Code

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Post by mountainriver » Tue, Jun 17, 2025, 3:52 PM UTC

bretpiatt wrote: post #133

mountainriver wrote: post #82

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What??? It’s literally the worst interface Do you not want to edit your code after it’s generated?

I'm running terminal in one window with AI interaction and then VS Code with project on same directories so I can see via color coding updated or new files to review in the IDE. How do you interact with your projects?

this is demonstrably worse than cursor

Re: Snorting the AGI with Claude Code

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Post by mountainriver » Tue, Jun 17, 2025, 3:53 PM UTC

handfuloflight wrote: post #95

mountainriver wrote: post #82

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What??? It’s literally the worst interface Do you not want to edit your code after it’s generated?

...if your IDE doesn't have a terminal then it isn't an IDE.

why wouldn't you want the diffs in the IDE? Its richer and you can do more with them

Re: Snorting the AGI with Claude Code

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Post by throwawayoldie » Tue, Jun 17, 2025, 4:16 PM UTC

bigiain wrote: post #147

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…

20 years before UML/Java it was "4th Generation Languages" that were going to bring "Application Development Without Programmers" to businesses. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fourth-generation_programming_...

And before that it was high-level programming languages, or as we call them today, programming languages.

Re: Snorting the AGI with Claude Code

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Post by throwawayoldie » Tue, Jun 17, 2025, 4:17 PM UTC

johnwheeler wrote: post #110

I've actually stumbled upon a novel new way of using Claude code that I don't think anybody else is doing that's insanely better. I'll release it soon.

"...but the proof is too large to fit in this margin."

Re: Snorting the AGI with Claude Code

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Post by xandrius » Tue, Jun 17, 2025, 4:27 PM UTC

TeMPOraL wrote: post #200

xandrius wrote: post #190

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What kind of podcast have you listened to, if any? They aren't all Joe Rogan.

Name one that isn't > 90% fluff and human interaction sounds.

RadioLab, 99% invisible, Revisionist History, Everything is alive.

Re: Snorting the AGI with Claude Code

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Post by leptons » Tue, Jun 17, 2025, 4:57 PM UTC

paulluuk wrote: post #161

leptons wrote: post #111

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> 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.

The one thing "AI" actually does well enough for me is writing CSS. It's actually the only thing I trust it with, because there is very little consequence to trusting the output when it writes CSS.

I have a designer on my team that adds their polish to the basic HTML and CSS I produce, but first I have to produce it. I really don't care what the front-end ends up looking like, that's for someone else to worry about. So I let the "AI" write the CSS for buttons and other UI elements, which it is good enough at to save me time. Then I hand it off to the designer and they finish the product, make the buttons match the rest of the buttons, fix the padding, whatever. It certainly has accelerated that part of my workflow, and it produces way better looking front-end UI styling than I would care to spend my time on. If I didn't have the designer, the AI-generated CSS would be good enough for most people. But, I wouldn't trust the AI to tell me if a page "looks weird". I have no doubt it would become a nuisance of false-positives, or just not reporting problems that actually exist.

Re: Snorting the AGI with Claude Code

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Post by xorcist » Tue, Jun 17, 2025, 5:35 PM UTC

bigiain wrote: post #147

JohnMakin wrote: post #134

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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…

20 years before UML/Java it was "4th Generation Languages" that were going to bring "Application Development Without Programmers" to businesses. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fourth-generation_programming_...

The 4GL was mostly reporting languages, as I remember. Useful ones, too. I still feel we haven't been even close to utilizing specialized programming languages and toolkits.

Put another way, I am certain that Unity has done more to get non-programmers to develop software than ChatGPT ever will.