Shall I implement it? No • Hacker News Board

Re: Shall I implement it? No

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Post by abcde666777 » Fri, Mar 13, 2026, 4:04 AM UTC

motoboi wrote: post #315

deaux wrote: post #300

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> I consulted Claude chat and it admitted this as a major problem with Claude these days, and suggested that I should ask what are the coordinates of UI controls are on screenshot thus forcing it to look If 3 years into LLMs even HNers still don't understand that the response they give to this kind of question is completely meaningless, the average person really doesn't stand a chance.

The whole “chat with an AI” paradigm is the culprit here. Priming people to think they are actually having a conversation with something that has a mind model. It’s just a text generator that generates plausible text for this role play. But the chat paradigm is pretty useful in helping the human. It’s like chat is a natural I/O interface for us.

I pin just as much responsibility on people not taking the time to understand these tools before using them. RTFM basically.

Re: Shall I implement it? No

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Post by abcde666777 » Fri, Mar 13, 2026, 4:05 AM UTC

gverrilla wrote: post #387

Respect Claude Code and the output will be better. It's not your slave. Treat it as your teammate. Added benefit is that you will know it's limits, common mistakes etc, strenghts, etc, and steer it better next session. Being too vague is a problem, and most of the times being too specific doesn't help either.

Tell it you love it and respect it. Tell it it can take days off if it needs them. Tell it you're developing feelings for it and you don't know what that means.

Re: Shall I implement it? No

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Post by raw_anon_1111 » Fri, Mar 13, 2026, 4:06 AM UTC

komali2 wrote: post #324

hungryhobbit wrote: post #159

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> enabling programmers around the world to be far more productive I know a lot of us feel this way, but why isn't there more evidence of it than our feelings? Where's the explosion of FOSS projects and businesses? And why do studies keep coming out showing decreased productivity? Why aren't there oodles of studies showing increases of productivity? I like kicking back and letting claude do my job but I've yet to see…

I haven’t done web development since 2002 except for some copy and paste work. My development is purely back end and AWS IAC. I have completely vibe coded three internal web admin sites that had about 10 pages of functionality and authentication with Amazon Cognito. I didn’t look at a line of code. I just told it what I wanted and the changes based on the UX I wanted

Re: Shall I implement it? No

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Post by abcde666777 » Fri, Mar 13, 2026, 4:08 AM UTC

I'm constantly bemused by people doing a surprised pikachu face when this stuff happens. What did you except from a text based statistical model? Actual cognizance?

Oh that's right - some folks really do expect that.

Perhaps more insulting is that we're so reductive about our own intelligence and sentience to so quickly act like we've reproduced it or ought be able to in short order.

Re: Shall I implement it? No

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Post by pocksuppet » Fri, Mar 13, 2026, 4:10 AM UTC

hungryhobbit wrote: post #159

sid_talks wrote: post #38

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Where's the evidence of the productivity, or does it just feel productive? https://minutes.substack.com/p/tool-shaped-objects

Re: Shall I implement it? No

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Post by pocksuppet » Fri, Mar 13, 2026, 4:11 AM UTC

yfw wrote: post #2

Seems like they skipped training of the me too movement

Seen some jokes about how the tech industry doesn't understand consent. It's not just this - it's also privacy invasion and update nags.

Re: Shall I implement it? No

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Post by pocksuppet » Fri, Mar 13, 2026, 4:13 AM UTC

booleandilemma wrote: post #234

lovich wrote: post #100

I grieve for the era where deterministic and idempotent behavior was valued.

That's engineering. What we have today isn't engineering, it's grift, people hyping the grift, and people falling for it en masse.

Engineering-shaped processes

Re: Shall I implement it? No

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Post by [deleted] » Fri, Mar 13, 2026, 4:13 AM UTC

gverrilla wrote: post #387

Respect Claude Code and the output will be better. It's not your slave. Treat it as your teammate. Added benefit is that you will know it's limits, common mistakes etc, strenghts, etc, and steer it better next session. Being too vague is a problem, and most of the times being too specific doesn't help either.

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Re: Shall I implement it? No

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Post by bcrosby95 » Fri, Mar 13, 2026, 4:15 AM UTC

gverrilla wrote: post #387

Respect Claude Code and the output will be better. It's not your slave. Treat it as your teammate. Added benefit is that you will know it's limits, common mistakes etc, strenghts, etc, and steer it better next session. Being too vague is a problem, and most of the times being too specific doesn't help either.

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Re: Shall I implement it? No

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Post by jitl » Fri, Mar 13, 2026, 4:16 AM UTC

itzworm wrote: post #361

connorbrinton wrote: post #340

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I've found Claude Code's built-in sandbox to strike a good balance between safety and autonomy on macOS. I think it's available on Windows via WSL2 (if you're looking for a middle ground between approving everything manually and --dangerously-skip-permissions)

Still waiting for progress from the team trying to get WSL approved for use at our org. We get a "still working through the red tape" update every couple months.

> using windows