renegade-otter
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Comment · 2 days ago
It is the best for very practical things. I once needed a logo for my SaaS company - just tell it to generate hundreds of versions until you stumble upon the one you find fetching. I do not want to become an artist just to be able to make one logo. Just as an artist would not want to learn programming if they ever needed some simple automation script.
Comment · 3 days ago
Just use hashmap for everything.
Comment · 4 days ago
The extra work required to delight users is still work. Most people won't be bothered to spend the time. It's so much easier to create the average and move on.
The baseline has moved down, but it also encourages laziness. Those who break out of the "Claude, do the thing, no mistakes" rut will do great things.
Comment · 4 days ago
I always say - "give me the fastest baseline framework and I will destroy it with one bad SQL query".
Comment · 4 days ago
Sure, but last year I had to reinstall Windows because they did not bother to test USB input devices on their new "recovery" feature: https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/discussions/windows11/th...
All it had to do was run Check Disk, but it kept going in a loop every 30 minutes checking their "AI" for solutions, finding none. There was no way to get out of it.
I am sorry, but even in the worst days of Windows, this would have been a huge deal. This was the last straw so I installed Mint to play games.
Comment · 4 days ago
The assembly line never stops either. Somehow we figured out that eventually one has to go home.
Comment · 4 days ago
Zero bugs, though.
Comment · 4 days ago
There is plenty of evidence. For example:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MR4i3Ho9zZY&t=37s
The reason is clear - without scarcity of compute or memory, performance is no longer a feature. That works until all the laziness compounds into a crawling bloat.
This is regarding desktop software. With services, microservices is basically a performance anti-pattern that is used without any due diligence in most cases.
Comment · 4 days ago
Of course not. It can write working code well, and that's why there is a heated discussion now about code reviews and good engineering practices in the world of agents.
Comment · 7 days ago
The issue is that software is almost unique it the sense that you can use reinforcement learning to get the desired outcome - does it compile or not? A large amount of automated trial-and-error runs do that.
It's not true elsewhere. The definition of "is this a good outcome" is pretty nebulous in other areas.
"Is this what the law says?"
Yes, but that's not how the judge will interpret it, etc.
Comment · 9 days ago
But... but... but.... 30 thousand commits a day. So much committing they needed to vibecode their own version control.
As they say, money can't buy taste. An allegedly multi-trillion dollar company can't bother to have any UX input from a meatbag.
BTW, I work for a very small tech company - we can request PTO with Claude.
Comment · 11 days ago
This is like tokenmaxxing for observability?
Comment · 11 days ago
Wasn't that Terminator: Salvation?
Comment · 11 days ago
Laughs in Ed Zitron.
Comment · 17 days ago
The standard C-level superpower is sorting a spreadsheet by cost, descending, and cutting the top X rows. This seems to be the pinnacle of American business school.