This sound pretty interesting actually. I may try this on my Linux burner laptop.
Claude Code Is My Computer
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#62lmao, I watched Claude write a bash file that: rm rf'd my HOME file. I'm good on all of this for a while.
I am ai skeptical and have seen it do some dangerous things, such as trying to configure my iptables in a way that will definitely not work at all, let alone the way I asked it to, but I have major doubts that it would do something this stupid.
How recently did this occur? What did you ask it in your prompt? What did it say as the explanation for why it was doing that?
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#63This is pretty fascinating, but I am not brave (or foolhardy) enough to try it myself.
Having solid backups is good protection against errors that delete data, but I'm more worried about problems that leak my private data - especially to malicious attackers.
Think malicious instructions hidden on websites or in emails that cause Claude Code to steal API keys or account credentials and exfiltrate them to an attacker.
Right now, it is unlikely that such prompt injection attacks are being targeted against specific individuals. I know they are theoretically possible though, and that's enough to prevent me from trying this out.
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#64Kind of reminds me of the days when people claimed they paid for their entire lifestyle in Bitcoin.
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#65Earlier quoted context omitted.
It took 50+ prompts to get it to this state. I’d say that counts as putting enough care into it to be my voice.
What matters to me is that a human writer has verified the content and is ready to stake their reputation on it being worth my time to read. It sounds like that's what you've done here, in which case I don't feel that you are wasting my time by having me read something that you haven't even reviewed yourself.
It does seem weird for someone to expect others to spend their time fully reading something… when they also have access to the same tools and can just tell it to summarize it back.
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#66I am quite honestly baffled by all these posts. I'm not a hardcore skeptic, at least I don't think so, I have tried most of the vibe coding tools, and I regularly try new ones and continue using many; and I do NOT have the experience described in all these posts.
So two possibilities come to mind:
1. I, somehow, use every single one of those tools wrong.
2. Or; you and the other people raving about Claude code are solving trivial problems.
Of course, I'm human so I'm inclined to believe I do not use all tools wrong. But reading your experience and those similar to yours I can't help but think two things:
- you are solving incredibly rote, already solved, problem that the LLMs are just able to spit out by heart. I do too, and yet I don't have the same AI successes so damn your problems must be especially trivial.
- You are so wildly overpaid that paying hundreds (I even saw people "boasting" about spending thousands a day !) of dollar a month is perfectly justifiable.
I don't think I'm wrong on the last point, and if I can see it then employers will be able to see it too. Why on earth would anyone pay 600$/h (your rates according to one of your post), when apparently I can just pay 200$/mo and get the same thing?
And don't tell me "because it takes skill to use Claude Code", you just wrote a blog post telling it mostly doesn't (apparently).
Don't take this whole post as a mean criticism (and if it reads like it, I'm sorry), I am just truly flabergasted.
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#67Earlier quoted context omitted.
It took 50+ prompts to get it to this state. I’d say that counts as putting enough care into it to be my voice.
What matters to me is that a human writer has verified the content and is ready to stake their reputation on it being worth my time to read. It sounds like that's what you've done here, in which case I don't feel that you are wasting my time by having me read something that you haven't even reviewed yourself.
I've been trying to organize my thoughts of how I feel about consuming AI generated content. This comment really encapsulates how I feel.
As long as a human put time and effort into making something, then I'm willing to consider putting my effort toward reading/watching. If someone just spends 5 seconds to throw a prompt out there, that's when I get annoyed.
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#68I feel like I’m beginning to see what countless others have doubtless discovered before me, which is that much of the effort and ingenuity of a modern life is directed toward figuring out how to live as little as possible.
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#69The backup part is the crucial piece here. If you have reasonable guard rails for your AI, you can throw much more at it. Let it write tests before implementing something, ensure the code is in version control before promoting a change, etc.
Aside, I tried to move my ~/Code folder (where all my programming projects and work live) into the macOS iCloud folder so that everything would auto-sync. But the constant Git churn created a lot of traffic and collisions in that folder. And when I googled it, apparently it's just not a good idea to sync Git projects in iCloud. I really want to easily sync my folders so that I can just get a new macbook and recreate…
TL;DR: Move your .git folders out of ~/Code into ~/Git/[reponame]. Use ln -s or plain text .git file[1].
I have my code folders in Dropbox on OSX but I believe my process should work for you. I work in node and have a number of monorepos with nested node_modules folders. I run my idempotent dev-files.command script [2] with or without "--nono" in any monorepo and it handles the entire git aliasing and dropbox folder ignore for node_modules process. I use --nono if I ever need to clear out all of the node_modules and do a fresh pnpm install.
1. https://git-scm.com/docs/gitrepository-layout
2. https://gist.github.com/chiragmehta/a41bd33356b6a2f84075d23d...
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#70Earlier quoted context omitted.
It took 50+ prompts to get it to this state. I’d say that counts as putting enough care into it to be my voice.
Readers would have been better served with the prompts you wrote than the AI generated output.
Try reading a manuscript copy of a book before it’s been edited. Yes I know some people do this out of interest but for most people it’s not the type of writing they are interested in reading or would get the most out of.