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I am a software developer with over 25 years of professional experience and have been working with coding agents for quite some time starting with AutoGPT and now using Claude Code almost 24/7 orchestrated via Task Master to automatically spin up new instances working on a multi layer project.

You are absolutely right. A large portion are influencers (I would estimate around 95% of those you see on YouTube and forums) that are full of hype. I think most are not affiliated with Anthropic or any vendor, they are just trying to sell a course, ebook or some "get rich with AI" scheme.

What I appreciate about Claude Code:

- Since it is a terminal/CLI tool it can be run headlessly from cron jobs or scripts. This makes it easy to automate.

- I appreciate the predictable pricing model. A flat monthly fee gives me access to Claude Sonnet and Opus 4 in five-hour sessions each with its own usage limit that resets at the start of a new session. There is a fair use policy of around 50 sessions per month, but I haven’t hit that yet. I deliberately run only one instance at a time as I prefer to use it responsibly unlike some of the "vibe" influencers who seem to push it to the limit.

That's it. Despite being a CLI based tool, Claude Code is remarkably out of the box for what it offers.

That said, no coding agent I have encountered can fully ingest a large inconsistent legacy codebase especially one with mixed architectures that accumulated over years. This limitation is mainly due to context size constraints, but I expect this to improve as context windows grow.

Thanks. It seems you're right. I started with the first Deluxe Paint myself back then and always incorrectly thought he used it based on the videos I saw.

From what I remember he used Deluxe Paint and the color cycle feature to change the color palette around.

Lately I often have trouble finding the date/time a youtube video was posted. Sometimes I find it when I open the description box, but not always.

They are both prototype-based languages influenced by Self.

That is similar to how I see it. The currently accepted physics may just be at a local minima, but not at the global minima.

The same thing happened to me and I'm still sick of it. I lost a lot of emails from the beginning of my career. I found out when I finally got around to backing up my old stuff. There are still a lot of emails that I wish I still had. I know it is / was a free service, but still.

Same here. With prices rising everywhere and a salary of ~40k euros before taxes (which is normal in IT in many EU countries if you don't work for big tech) I hardly have room for another subscription. People here are too quick to say "what is $10 on a $80/hour salary?"

I was planning to do this myself. Thanks for the article. I am ok with the code dump :D

Right now I am using nginx with the image_filter module + caching to do this.

I know about "Het zal me aan mijn reet roesten", but I usually use "het zal me een worst wezen" which is similar to what they say in Germany.

Last year at the beginning of the pandemic I started implementing a devops infrastructure at work where I work as a lead developer. Initially the idea was to allow developers to run anything (or a selection of things) required for production on their local machine (k3s, kind etc) with added tooling for development (consistently working tools inside the container, but even outside by the use of binding). All I needed was a simple way to run containers and the requirements. Docker soon proved to be inadequate, it lacked certain features and I soon moved to k8s for local development and a devops pipeline.

People commit their changes, I (and sometimes another dev) review them and they are pushed to the test environment, from there to staging and then production (with a way to easily roll back). This is all done automatically with out-of-the-box solutions (fluxcd, flagger, kilo, kaniko etc).

At work, Kubernetes is not considered too difficult to manage. Much can be done in a very consistent and complete way unlike Docker. What am I overlooking that makes k8s to be considered snake-oil by so many?

Edit: Forgot to add. I am so happy with k8s that I even run it at home and on my external servers.

I actually do use VSCode (in addition to Vi and Vim) and I believe I indicated that.