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Re: OpenClaw is changing my life

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Post by wvlia5 »

brookst wrote: post #380
aeldidi wrote: post #298

There's an odd trend with these sorts of posts where the author claims to have had some transformative change in their workflow brought upon by LLM coding tools, but also seemingly has nothing to show for it. To me, using the most recent ChatGPT Codex (5.3 on "Extra High" reasoning), it's incredibly obvious that while these tools are surprisingly good at doing repetitive or locally-scoped tasks, they immediately fall…

I can’t speak for anyone else, but Claude Code has been transformative for me. I can’t say it’s led to shipping “high quality projects”, but it has let me accomplish things I just wouldn’t have had time for previously. I’ve been wanting to develop a plastic -> silicone -> plaster -> clay mold making process for years, but it’s complex and mold making is both art and science. It would have been hundreds of hours befor…

Sounds like you only tried it on small projects.

Re: OpenClaw is changing my life

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Post by Groxx »

FeteCommuniste wrote: post #301
aeldidi wrote: post #298

There's an odd trend with these sorts of posts where the author claims to have had some transformative change in their workflow brought upon by LLM coding tools, but also seemingly has nothing to show for it. To me, using the most recent ChatGPT Codex (5.3 on "Extra High" reasoning), it's incredibly obvious that while these tools are surprisingly good at doing repetitive or locally-scoped tasks, they immediately fall…

There's got to be some quantity of astroturfing going on, given the players and the dollar amounts at stake.

"some", where "some" is scaled to match the overwhelmingly unprecedented amount of money being thrown behind all this. plus all of this is about a literal astroturfing machine, capable of unprecedented scale and ability to hide, which it's extremely clearly being used for at scale elsewhere / by others.

so yeah, it wouldn't surprise me if it was well over most. I don't actually claim that it is over half here, I've run across quite a few of these kinds of people in real life as well. but it wouldn't surprise me.

Re: OpenClaw is changing my life

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Post by sarchertech »

brookst wrote: post #380
aeldidi wrote: post #298

There's an odd trend with these sorts of posts where the author claims to have had some transformative change in their workflow brought upon by LLM coding tools, but also seemingly has nothing to show for it. To me, using the most recent ChatGPT Codex (5.3 on "Extra High" reasoning), it's incredibly obvious that while these tools are surprisingly good at doing repetitive or locally-scoped tasks, they immediately fall…

I can’t speak for anyone else, but Claude Code has been transformative for me. I can’t say it’s led to shipping “high quality projects”, but it has let me accomplish things I just wouldn’t have had time for previously. I’ve been wanting to develop a plastic -> silicone -> plaster -> clay mold making process for years, but it’s complex and mold making is both art and science. It would have been hundreds of hours befor…

> I’ve been wanting to develop a plastic -> silicone -> plaster -> clay mold making process for years, but it’s complex and mold making is both art and science. It would have been hundreds of hours before, with maybe 12 hours of Claude code I’m almost there (some nagging issues… maybe another hour).

That’s so nebulous and likely just plain wrong. I have some experience with silicone molds and casting silicone and other materials. I have no idea how you’d accurately estimate it would take hundreds of hours. But the mostly likely reason you’ve had results is that you just did it.

This sounds very very much like confirmation bias. “I started drinking pine needle tea and then 5 days later my cold got better!”

I use AI, it’s useful for lots of things, but this kind of anecdote is terrible evidence.

Re: OpenClaw is changing my life

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Post by holySBoring »

brookst wrote: post #380
aeldidi wrote: post #298

There's an odd trend with these sorts of posts where the author claims to have had some transformative change in their workflow brought upon by LLM coding tools, but also seemingly has nothing to show for it. To me, using the most recent ChatGPT Codex (5.3 on "Extra High" reasoning), it's incredibly obvious that while these tools are surprisingly good at doing repetitive or locally-scoped tasks, they immediately fall…

I can’t speak for anyone else, but Claude Code has been transformative for me. I can’t say it’s led to shipping “high quality projects”, but it has let me accomplish things I just wouldn’t have had time for previously. I’ve been wanting to develop a plastic -> silicone -> plaster -> clay mold making process for years, but it’s complex and mold making is both art and science. It would have been hundreds of hours befor…

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Re: OpenClaw is changing my life

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Post by irishcoffee »

arwhatever wrote: post #388
brookst wrote: post #380

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I can’t speak for anyone else, but Claude Code has been transformative for me. I can’t say it’s led to shipping “high quality projects”, but it has let me accomplish things I just wouldn’t have had time for previously. I’ve been wanting to develop a plastic -> silicone -> plaster -> clay mold making process for years, but it’s complex and mold making is both art and science. It would have been hundreds of hours befor…

I’m trying to pivot my career from web/business app dev entirely into embedded, despite the steep learning curve, many new frameworks and tool chains, because I now have a full-time infinitely patient tutor, and I dare say it’s off to a pretty good start so far.

If you want to get into embedded you’d be better suited learning how to use an o-scope, a meter, and asm/c. If you’re using any sort of hardware that isn’t “mainstream” you’ll be pretty bummed at the results from an LLM.

Re: OpenClaw is changing my life

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Post by K0balt »

wvlia5 wrote: post #401
brookst wrote: post #380

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I can’t speak for anyone else, but Claude Code has been transformative for me. I can’t say it’s led to shipping “high quality projects”, but it has let me accomplish things I just wouldn’t have had time for previously. I’ve been wanting to develop a plastic -> silicone -> plaster -> clay mold making process for years, but it’s complex and mold making is both art and science. It would have been hundreds of hours befor…

Sounds like you only tried it on small projects.

That’s where it really shines. I have a backlog of small projects (-1-2kLOC type state machines , sensors, loggers) and instead of spending 2-3 days I can usually knock them out in half a day. So they get done. On these projects, it is an infinity improvement because I simply wouldn’t have done them, unable to justify the cost.

But on bigger stuff, it bogs down and sometimes I feel like I’m going nowhere. But it gets done eventually, and I have better structured, better documented code. Not because it would be better structured and documented if I left it to its ow devices, but rather it is the best way to get performance out of LLM assistance in code.

The difference now is twofold: First, things like documentation are now -effortless-. Second, the good advice you learned about meticulously writing maintainable code no longer slows you down, now it speeds you up.

Re: OpenClaw is changing my life

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Post by holySBoring »

aeldidi wrote: post #298

There's an odd trend with these sorts of posts where the author claims to have had some transformative change in their workflow brought upon by LLM coding tools, but also seemingly has nothing to show for it. To me, using the most recent ChatGPT Codex (5.3 on "Extra High" reasoning), it's incredibly obvious that while these tools are surprisingly good at doing repetitive or locally-scoped tasks, they immediately fall…

Everyone claiming AI is great is trying to make money by being on the leading edge.

All AI-IS-WONDERFUL stories are garbage-trash written by garbage people.

Fuck AI. Fuck HN AI promoters. Hopefully you all lose your jobs and fail in life.

Re: OpenClaw is changing my life

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Post by belter »

aeldidi wrote: post #298

There's an odd trend with these sorts of posts where the author claims to have had some transformative change in their workflow brought upon by LLM coding tools, but also seemingly has nothing to show for it. To me, using the most recent ChatGPT Codex (5.3 on "Extra High" reasoning), it's incredibly obvious that while these tools are surprisingly good at doing repetitive or locally-scoped tasks, they immediately fall…

You can see how the bubble is about to pop up, by the number of times Jensen Huang has to show up on CNBC pumping the stock.

Hardly before, now its almost three times a week. And never gets any questions on GPU amortization...

Re: OpenClaw is changing my life

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Post by tunesmith »

colechristensen wrote: post #400
tunesmith wrote: post #397

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I guess this is another example - I literally have not experienced what you described in... several weeks, at least.

I often ask for big things. For example I'm working on some virtualization things where I want a machine to be provisioned with a few options of linux distros and BSDs. In one prompt I asked for this list to be provisioned so a certain test of ssh would complete, it worked on it for several hours and now we're doing the code review loop. At first it gave up on the BSDs and I had to poke it to actually finish with an…

ah, so cool. Yeah that is definitely bigger than what I ask for. I'd say the bigger risk I'm dealing with right now is that while it passes all my very strict linting and static analysis toolsets, I neglected to put detailed layered-architecture guidelines in place, so my code files are approaching several hundred lines now. I don't actually know if the "most efficient file size" for an agent is the same as for a human, but I'd like them to be shorter so I can understand them more easily.

Re: OpenClaw is changing my life

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Post by almostlikelying »

gyomu wrote: post #18

> it completely transformed my workflow, whether it’s personal or commercial projects > This has truly freed up my productivity, letting me pursue so many ideas I couldn’t move forward on before If you're writing in a blog post that AI has changed your life and let you build so many amazing projects, you should link to the projects. Somehow 90% of these posts don't actually link to the amazing projects that their aut…

Grifters gotta grift. There is so much money on the line and everyone is trying to be an influencer/“thought leader” in the area.

Nobody is actually using AI for anything useful or THEY WOULDNT BE TALKING ABOUT IT. They’d be disrupting everything and making billions of dollars.

Instead this whole AI grift reads like “how to be a millionaire in 10 days” grifts by people that aren’t, in fact, millionaires.

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