jcadam

Stochastic, yes. Parrot? No.

Unacceptable. I live on the Kenai Peninsula and I take exception to my home being used as a laboratory. I'll be writing my state reps over this.

I've had to stop using em-dashes in my own writing :'(

True. Sometimes I'll run front-end and backend work in two different claude instances, but always on the same project/product. I'll have "reviewer" instances in opencode using a different (non-Claude) model doing reviews, that's about as much as I can handle. You've got to supervise it while it works. I do have to stop claude from time to time when I catch it doing something naive or unnecessarily complex.

Yea, my issue with Opus 4.5 is it's the first model that's good enough that I'm starting to feel myself slip into laziness. I catch myself reviewing its output less rigorously than I had with previous AI coding assistants.

As a side project / experiment, I designed a language spec and am using (mostly) Opus 4.5 to write a transpiler (language transpiles to C) for it. Parser was no problem (I used s-expressions for a reason). The type checker and transpiler itself have been a slog - I think I'm finding the limits of Opus :D. It particularly struggles with multi-module support. Though, some of this is probably mistakes made by me while playing architect and iterating with Claude - I haven't written a compiler since my senior year compiler design course 20+ years ago. Someone who does this for a living would probably have an easier time of it.

But for the CRUD stuff my day job has me doing? Pffttt... it's great.

I've been getting some good results from sqlite-vec on my current project. I need to look at geospatial extensions next.

I tried to do it in emacs lisp one year. Made it about halfway :)

I've found most LLMs I've tried generate better code in typed, procedural languages than they do in something like Clojure.

From the perspective of a primarily backend dev who knows just enough React/ts to be dangerous, Claude is generating pretty decent frontend code, letting me spend more time on the Rust backend of my current side project.

Yea, my house is on Starlink... so at the moment I'm working in the back room of my wife's restaurant (she has cable internet). At least I get free coffee here.

Most US citizens applying for software engineering jobs can't even get a response to their resume, and then I read stories like this.

I worked in defense contracting for most of my ~20 year career up until a few months ago. So I'm experiencing this culture shock the other way around. Being the oldest person on a team is... strange.

Still have my clearance for a couple years I suppose - perhaps all this anti-remote madness will be over before then.