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He has a fiancee. Any selfie or amateur picture would raise more symphathy.

Guy had approximately one shot at making a desperate call (we can all be there) and he fumbled it with AI imagery and text which will turn off a lot of people.

Yes, it's possible, but far from popular at the moment, with many developers admitting not to have written a single line of code in months, and delegating the bulk of code review to tools.

The root cause is people fully buying into the idea that this tech is 'intelligent' as opposed to simply giving us a baseline, approximately correct thing to keep working on.

A saw or a compiler cannot replace the essence of your job. You cannot use a saw or a compiler to carelessly create faulty work and claim that it was fully authored by you to the best of your capabilities.

'Just a tool' is a lie ranging from unconscious self-deception to outright scams.

It's a useful piece because it shows how considering AI a tool is nothing but lying to yourself.

If you shipped something understanding none of it, you did nothing. Claude did it. Writing 'code' is not just typing characters that compile, it's maintaining a system of ideas. If you don't know anything about those underlying ideas, what did you even do? How are you not trivially replaceable?

You can argue all day about these topics, but ultimately, the paychecks, the customers, the prestige, etc will be proportional to the non-AI value that you can offer to the world.

Thanks!

I would enjoy a brief exchange, can you hit me up at <username> at <username> dotnet?

Hi ofjcihen, where can I learn more about your professional services?

Another day, another AI-related thinkpiece

(that people upvote to post their own thinkpieces in the comments)

Musk must be chronically surrounded by yes-men.

What is a correct, bug-free program?

...It's one that does what a specific set of humans want. There's no other useful definition. One man's feature is another's bug.

It logically follows that there must be a human review step. How else would you know what the human wants, with sufficient detail?

Otherwise, there's an infinite number of undesired programs with passing test suites that AI can generate for you.

Have you perceived a market shift for freelancers given the rise of AI coding?

It seems to me that sadly, paying for getting a few isolated tasks done is becoming a thing of the past.

Every "how I use Claude Code" post will get into the HN frontpage.

Which maybe has to do with people wanting to show how they use Claude Code in the comments!

Kinesis Freestyle2. 100 bucks, it's been around for a long time.

Good coincidence, yesterday I switched to a split keyboard. I had been programming since 2011.

Main reason for my switch is that I felt that my shoulders have a wider stance than before. I don't know if it's because of an improvement in fitness (I do a lot of shoulder and back work), or maybe with age I lost a bit of shoulder internal rotation mobility.

Either way, the learning curve was like a few minutes for me. Guess it's a perk of experience and the habit of touch typing.