I guess I’m thinking a lot of companies seem to be getting Claude code subscriptions. It usually takes some time and effort for an org to switch away from one solution. In the meantime a lot of workflows get more and…
I think anthropic with its enterprise strategy and google with its integration in everything have a bit of a moat. But I switched from ChatGPT to Claude 3 months ago because my account was down for like 6 hours. I…
Yeah I hope the links are helpful
I posted about my project below - https://github.com/0x007BA7/codebook But maybe you should checkout the tools it’s based on, sem - https://github.com/Ataraxy-Labs/sem and ultimately treesitter. They at least give a…
Codebook - https://github.com/0x007BA7/codebook It’s a better code reader built on top of sem (treesitter). I’m getting a lot of massive PRs at work now, and this has helped a lot with reading them. It decomposes the…
This has always been the fun part of programming to me. I know most people hate it, but I really don’t mind being on-call (ok I hate being woken up) and fixing weird bugs that users run into. All these small edge cases…
I do think people are seeing useful results, but it’s at least several orders of magnitude less than what is claimed. My metric is: how much code that I create today do I depend on in 3 months (incl learnings and one…
More generally, I think it’s more specialized knowledge. If you have particularly specific knowledge in pretty much any domain, combining that with AI can lead to huge gains.
> Sounds terrible, but is it? Yes > It incentivises high-impact research It incentivizes work that sounds impressive to laymen. Actual work tends to be technical and might not sound super exciting. If 20 years ago, a…
It doesn’t apply to what this repo is doing. Also the 70 odd single author preprints seems to suggest the author is in some deep AI psychosis: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Logan-Nye-2
Well the √t stuff looks like nonsense or way overblown, existing tools already do similar things, there’s pretty much a single commit with no follow up commits etc etc.
Lots of bad smells in this repo.
Tech “decision makers” are feckless lemmings. If the trends tomorrow change, then their decisions will change.
At least where I am we can’t and shouldn’t know all the requirements of a project beforehand^. Every project is an iterative learning process between the users, product and engineers. The problem is if everyone uses AI…
At least for some people I know it’s not necessarily because there’s pressure from leadership, but because it’s funny that the org spends like $15,000/mo writing HP fanfic or whatever
> Claude is a phd level mathematician , I am not I’m going to guess that this is Gell-Mann amnesia more than anything, and it’s going to get a lot of organizations into a lot of weird places.
This isn’t foolproof either and plenty of people can talk convincingly about running projects that they had little to nothing to do with.
But “your software” isn’t bringing value anymore if people don’t use it. The things that the software does might have value, but the marginal utility of your software is effectively 0.
Unless the user just vibe-codes their own version. Which is what I’m seeing at my job. All of these “afternoon vibe code” projects never actually get users because everyone just vibe-codes their own.
This is a good way of putting it. I ship individual features faster, but the end to end process of shipping software has remained the roughly same because the vast majority of my time is building the “theory”.
Conversely, the value of software has dropped to 1/10 of what it was before Claude code existed. I’m being glib, but there’s a whole class of software (eg simple crud apps) that just don’t have any marginal value…
I can’t tell if we’re in identical situations or we work in the same place…
Meetings are too easy to game. I worked with a bunch of new managers from LEGACY_CORP and learned the extremes of how to BS. As an example, if you think there might be any sort of pushback, just never stop talking. Once…
I essentially have 3 modes: 1. Everything is specified, written and tested by me, then cleaned up by AI. This is for the core of the application. 2. AI writes the functions, then sets up stub tests for me to write. Here…
Case in point, just this morning I contributed a one-line change to an open source repo and the CI started failing. I asked Claude (Opus High Effort) and pasted in all the logs. I went back and forth and it very…
I guess I’m thinking a lot of companies seem to be getting Claude code subscriptions. It usually takes some time and effort for an org to switch away from one solution. In the meantime a lot of workflows get more and…
I think anthropic with its enterprise strategy and google with its integration in everything have a bit of a moat. But I switched from ChatGPT to Claude 3 months ago because my account was down for like 6 hours. I…
Yeah I hope the links are helpful
I posted about my project below - https://github.com/0x007BA7/codebook But maybe you should checkout the tools it’s based on, sem - https://github.com/Ataraxy-Labs/sem and ultimately treesitter. They at least give a…
Codebook - https://github.com/0x007BA7/codebook It’s a better code reader built on top of sem (treesitter). I’m getting a lot of massive PRs at work now, and this has helped a lot with reading them. It decomposes the…
This has always been the fun part of programming to me. I know most people hate it, but I really don’t mind being on-call (ok I hate being woken up) and fixing weird bugs that users run into. All these small edge cases…
I do think people are seeing useful results, but it’s at least several orders of magnitude less than what is claimed. My metric is: how much code that I create today do I depend on in 3 months (incl learnings and one…
More generally, I think it’s more specialized knowledge. If you have particularly specific knowledge in pretty much any domain, combining that with AI can lead to huge gains.
> Sounds terrible, but is it? Yes > It incentivises high-impact research It incentivizes work that sounds impressive to laymen. Actual work tends to be technical and might not sound super exciting. If 20 years ago, a…
It doesn’t apply to what this repo is doing. Also the 70 odd single author preprints seems to suggest the author is in some deep AI psychosis: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Logan-Nye-2
Well the √t stuff looks like nonsense or way overblown, existing tools already do similar things, there’s pretty much a single commit with no follow up commits etc etc.
Lots of bad smells in this repo.
Tech “decision makers” are feckless lemmings. If the trends tomorrow change, then their decisions will change.
At least where I am we can’t and shouldn’t know all the requirements of a project beforehand^. Every project is an iterative learning process between the users, product and engineers. The problem is if everyone uses AI…
At least for some people I know it’s not necessarily because there’s pressure from leadership, but because it’s funny that the org spends like $15,000/mo writing HP fanfic or whatever
> Claude is a phd level mathematician , I am not I’m going to guess that this is Gell-Mann amnesia more than anything, and it’s going to get a lot of organizations into a lot of weird places.
This isn’t foolproof either and plenty of people can talk convincingly about running projects that they had little to nothing to do with.
But “your software” isn’t bringing value anymore if people don’t use it. The things that the software does might have value, but the marginal utility of your software is effectively 0.
Unless the user just vibe-codes their own version. Which is what I’m seeing at my job. All of these “afternoon vibe code” projects never actually get users because everyone just vibe-codes their own.
This is a good way of putting it. I ship individual features faster, but the end to end process of shipping software has remained the roughly same because the vast majority of my time is building the “theory”.
Conversely, the value of software has dropped to 1/10 of what it was before Claude code existed. I’m being glib, but there’s a whole class of software (eg simple crud apps) that just don’t have any marginal value…
I can’t tell if we’re in identical situations or we work in the same place…
Meetings are too easy to game. I worked with a bunch of new managers from LEGACY_CORP and learned the extremes of how to BS. As an example, if you think there might be any sort of pushback, just never stop talking. Once…
I essentially have 3 modes: 1. Everything is specified, written and tested by me, then cleaned up by AI. This is for the core of the application. 2. AI writes the functions, then sets up stub tests for me to write. Here…
Case in point, just this morning I contributed a one-line change to an open source repo and the CI started failing. I asked Claude (Opus High Effort) and pasted in all the logs. I went back and forth and it very…