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A few random notes from Claude coding quite a bit last few weeks
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Re: A few random notes from Claude coding quite a bit last few weeks
#582Earlier quoted context omitted.
It's not just brain atrophy, I think. I think part of it is that we're actively making a tradeoff to focus on learning how to use the model rather than learning how to use our own brains and work with each other. This would be fine if not for one thing: the meta-skill of learning to use the LLM depreciates too. Today's LLM is gonna go away someday, the way you have to use it will change. You will be on a forever trea…
I assume you're living in a city. You're already renting out a lot of things to others (security, electricity, water, food, shelter, transportation), what is different with white collar work?
>the city gets destroyed
vs.
>a company goes bankrupt or pivots
I can see a few differences.
Re: A few random notes from Claude coding quite a bit last few weeks
#583I used CC in year age and it was not good. But one month ago I paid for max and started to rebuild my company web shop using it.
It is like plowing land with hand one year age and now is like I'm in brend new John Deere. It's amazing.
Of course its not perfect but if you understand code and problem it needs to solve then it works really good.
Re: A few random notes from Claude coding quite a bit last few weeks
#584I worry about the "brain atrophy" part, as I've felt this too. And not just atrophy, but even moreso I think it's evolving into "complacency". Like there have been multiple times now where I wanted the code to look a certain way, but it kept pulling back to the way it wanted to do things. Like if I had stated certain design goals recently it would adhere to them, but after a few iterations it would forget again and g…
I've been thinking along these lines. LLMs seem to have arrived right when we were all getting addicted to reels/tic tocks/whatever. For some reason we love to swipe, swipe, swipe, until we get something funny/interesting/shocking, that gives us a short-lasting dopamine hit (or whatever chemicals it is) that feels good for about 1 second, and we want MORE, so we keep swiping. Using an LLM is almost exactly the same.…
It's exactly the argument here:
Re: A few random notes from Claude coding quite a bit last few weeks
#585> What happens to the "10X engineer" - the ratio of productivity between the mean and the max engineer? It's quite possible that this grows a lot . I was thinking about this the other day as relates to the DevOps movement. The DevOps movement started as a way to accelerate and improve the results of dev ops team dynamics. By changing practices and methods, you get acceleration and improvement. That creates "high-perf…
This is an interesting thing that I'm contemplating. I also do believe that (perhaps with very few exceptions) there are no "10x engineers" by themselves, but engineers that thrive 10x more in a context or another (like, I'm sure Jeff Dean is an absolutely awesome engineer - but if you took him out of Google and plugged him into IBM - would he have had the same impact?)
With that in mind - I think one very unexplored area is "how to make the mixed AI-human teams successful". Like, I'm fairly convinced AI changes things, but to get to the industrialization of our craft (which is what management seems to want - and, TBH, something that makes sense from an economic pov), I feel that some big changes need to happen, and nobody is talking about that too much. What are the changes that need to happen? How do we change things, if we are to attempt such industrialization?
Re: A few random notes from Claude coding quite a bit last few weeks
#586maybe its just me doing stuff that's out the usual loop
even dealing with api's that have MCP servers the so called agents make a mess of everything.
my stuff is just regular data stuff - ingest data from x - transform it | make it real time - then pipe it to y
Re: A few random notes from Claude coding quite a bit last few weeks
#587Earlier quoted context omitted.
I have deliberately moderated my use of AI in large part for this reason. For a solid two years now I've been constantly seeing claims of " this model/IDE/Agent/approach/etc is the future of writing code! It makes me 50x more productive, and will do the same for you!" And inevitabely those have all fallen by the wayside and been replaced by some new shiny thing. As someone who doesn't get intrinsic joy out of chasing…
HN is where I keep hearing the “50× more productive” claims the most. I’ve been reading 2024 annual reports and 2025 quarterlies to see whether any of this shows up on the other side of the hype. So far, the only company making loud, concrete claims backed by audited financials is Klarna and once you dig in, their improved profitability lines up far more cleanly with layoffs, hiring freezes, business simplification,…
I have friends who make such 50x productivity claims. They are correct if we define productivity as creating untested apps and games and their features that will never ship --- or be purchased, even if they were to ship. Thus, “productivity” has become just another point of contention.
Re: A few random notes from Claude coding quite a bit last few weeks
#588> It hurts the ego a bit but the power to operate over software in large "code actions" is just too net useful It does hurt, that's why all programmers now need an entrepreneurial mindset... you become if you use your skills + new AI power to build a business.
That is motivational content, but not economics. Most startups will be noise, even more so than before. The value of being a founder ceases when everyone is a founder, when it becomes universal. You will need customers. Nobody wants to buy re-invented-the-wheel-74.0. It lacks character, it lacks soul. Without it, your product will be nothing but noise in a noisy world.
Cope. If you create something that genuinely solves a problem, people will buy no matter what.
Look entrepreneurship has never been easy. In fact it's always been one of the hardest thing ever. I'm just saying... *you don't have to do it*. Do whatever you want lol
Happy to hear what's your solution to avoid becoming totally replaceable and obsolete.
Re: A few random notes from Claude coding quite a bit last few weeks
#589Why am I not surprised that a blog was written about LLM coding going from 20% to 80% useful, yet all of the HN comments are still nit picking about some negative details rather than building positive ideas toward some progress...
Is the programmer ego really this fragile? At least luddites had an ideological reasoning, whereas here we just seem to have emotional reflexes.
Re: A few random notes from Claude coding quite a bit last few weeks
#590Earlier quoted context omitted.
Businesses too. For two years it's been "throw everything into AI." But now that shit is getting real, are they really feeling so coy about letting AI run ahead of their engineering team's ability to manage it? How long will it be until we start seeing outages that just don't get resolved because the engineers have lost the plot?
How long until “the LLM did it it” is just as effective as “AWS is down, not my fault”?
Never because the only reason that works with Amazon is that everyone is down at the exact same time.