mirmor23

> For frontend work especially, the productivity boost is insane. Claude built me a replacement for a complex UI that took a human developer 6 months to build poorly, and Claude did it in two hours.

It sounds incredible if the UI already existed in some shape, and it took a developer 6 months. With Qtcreator one could build UI full UI in 2 days if the wireframes or a UI already exists.

Spent few minutes reading the infomercial -- regretted it. Engineering principles form the bedrock first, and AI-tools are made to fit in them, not the other way around as this infomercial propounds. Its linkedin vibe is a big turnoff too.

If your SWR is less than 4% and you've the discipline to keep it that way, and you generally feel good overall (outside of career and lack of routine), then take your time.

LLM could create a study plan, grill your with tough questions. If your are into inquiry based learning, they are fantastic (thanks to all the stolen shit).

> I was handed 150$/mo budget and no subs, and while it was frustrating at first, with better tooling, context management and especially OAI models it's a breeze now and not even using 70% mostly while achieving a lot in a small team.

It's great that the project/team you were in had skills/cycles to do it.

In many cases this is pure yak shaving so to speak. Consider an embedded project where there are tons of tedious things to be tied together; Also, the project velocity is more important than saving another 1k per year. The decision not to switch is the smart choice in many cases.

> How about the last several times all of big tech was laying off tons of people at the same time?

I meant the layoffs due to AI, not the typical tech tech layoffs that are as old as tech itself.

There is a difference this time though. There has never been a time in last 40 years where being laid off seemed terrifying for knowledge workers in tech. It's speculative what's ahead, but man, does it LOOK bleak. Many would still come out OK, but it's not a given.

Redbull gives you wings.

AI hype is real, and there is a lot of perverse incentive to keep the hype cycle going. You are right about that.

Rest of your analogy/arguments are just a lot of nonsense too.

Electricity is valuable, and by that logic Siemens Energy should build and own all factories under the sun. TI should stop selling their calculators and compete in Math Olympiad instead!

> "Claude Duet is a proactive agent that understands what needs your attention. It takes on tasks of all sizes, keeps working while you’re away, and waits for your ok when it matters."

More hyperbole from a company angling for IPO gold. It would serve all existing customers well if they had a decent customer service, and a 'frontier model' that could respond to queries with evidence by default, instead of just making stuff up unless user is on guard all the time. Carrying the stated premise for more than an hour would be a nice touch too.

> it proceeded to attach GDB to my GPU driver, reverse-engineer the kernel queue ioctl interface, and author an LD_PRELOAD C shim to get ROCm llama.cpp working on my Strix Halo.

Most llm could do it. Claude went from firmware thread -> rtos scheduler -> mcu reference manual -> hardware controller register interface -> vendor sdk -> problem identification and the solution to it in a matter of 30 minutes. Linux could be even easier since it is so well trained on.

> So it CAN help me writing the code that needs to be checked in the first place, but it can’t help me clean it up and make it safer.

the thing with fable is so bad; for some project related questions, the model switches to opus to ensure safety with no further explanation.

(due to llm non-delete clause) one time as i confirmed "that dir has been nuked", and it RESET the session and re-entered with opus :)

> I'd get lynched for sharing a thought like this from a non-throwaway account, but: I don't get the ultra-liberal folks obsession with the skid row. For whatever reason they seem to think that low rank criminals should be allowed to continue living however they please. An attempt to clean up crime in Oakland - for example - is met with cries of gentrification! Think of the families!

You fail to demonstrate that you are capable of thinking in terms of policies that are pragmatic and enduring. Where is your rage when time and again corporations are give multi-million dollars of incentives when they promise jobs, economic boom to the cities which has been repeatedly shown to never materialize and taxpayers are left footing the bill. taxpayer money keeps flowing to other avoidable things like settlements for police brutality, cleaning up the mess left by many bad ideas, etc.

I am no liberal, but what seems to be the problem in spending some money to build low cost housing so removal does not seem forced? why would that thought not come to your mind? for every ultra-liberal, there are 4x the corporate boot-lickers, and that seems to be the source of the problem.

You seem like the kind of person that is perfectly ok with stolen goods as long as they are are kept in nice display cases in a museum and even an entry fee is even charged for it.

I read the article and kept wondering what the author is trying to convey. It reads like a checklist compiled into an essay with no wisdom nor rationale baked into it. mostly vague and generic -- like a human transform applied to an llm output.