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Yeah, I don’t know about that. We use VDI and dedicated agent accounts. Sort of like I’ve got my super user account for production server access via a different VDI, now I’ve got my -agent account for the agent VDI.

What does your sandboxing look like that you’re willing to give agents credentials real enough to store in 1Pass?

Hopefully a well-sandboxed claude -p.

You’re forgetting the “economics” part of the argument. Let’s assume that you are actually producing better code than say Opus 5.5. You’re probably slower, you very likely have less “stamina,” and you probably cost more than 200x more per month than a $20 subscription.

You’d have to be pretty unbelievably stellar to produce code 200x better than Opus. I can get a lot of business value out of not-great $20/mo coding. The people writing our checks do not care about the same things we care about.

And I say this as someone who is very upset about what this stuff is doing to my career and hobby.

Claude doesn’t do image generation?

…you don’t think in words? Or do you not consider an inner monologue to be thinking?

You've worked as a hiring manager at several organizations in the past year?

Don’t worry, some medical professionals are also delegating their thinking to LLMs. No need for the software middleman to cause harm.

This seems like an especially bad faith interpretation of the comment you were responding to.

> I'm not even going to respond to this ridiculousness.

Why is it ridiculous? If you have electronic access to something of value and broadcast that fact on the internet, you’re at risk of a physical attack. That’s not controversial? Companies make employees do training about this for a reason.

Options range from carefully targeted phishing or social engineering attacks to poor opsec and a five dollar wrench.

Do they also stop providing value to Google as a result?

I don’t get paid to write code, and you probably don’t either.

> Each time you "compile" your prompt into a program, LLMs spit up something a little bit different. How is it a good thing?

Because that’s not how it works. How can we have a discussion about this topic if we don’t have a mutual understanding of how the tools even work?

The code is not replaced by English prompts. The code still exists.

It remains unclear to me why my ability to read and review code (the majority of my job for years now) will atrophy if I continue doing it while writing even less code than I was before.

If my ability to write code somehow atrophies because I stop doing it, does that matter if I continue with the architecture and strategy around coding?

The act of writing code by hand seems to be on a trajectory of irrelevance, so as long as I maintain my ability to reason about code (both by continuing to read it and instruct tools to write it), what’s the issue?

Edit to add: the vast majority of the code I’ve worked on in my career was not written by me. A significant portion of it was not written by someone still employed by my employer. I think that’s true for a lot of us, and we all made it work. And we made it work without modern coding assistants helping out. I think we’ll be fine.