Fair point! This post is not a load bearing and accurate description of Claude's workings, it's satire.
> The way you test code cannot (and should not) be decoupled by the way in which you architect the code itself. I'm not sure I fully understand. In my view, it's pretty evident that tests should test behavior and not…
Thank you, I appreciate you sharing this very much! I wish I could read the entire chat, but I imagine there might be some NDA stuff in there if you talk abt real world experiences.
> Teams, em dash bla bla bla em dash have quietly bla bla bla. It's not this, it's _that_. I find it hard to read articles where the agentic writing is this obvious. It's a distraction from the message of the text,…
So, I get the idea of having a layer of abstraction between your tests and the system under test. You decouple _what_ is being done from _how_ it is done, which leads to robust, easily maintained, and even more…
Literally everything except the media writing non-sensationalist headlines about science.
> If coding is easy, how come programmers were in high demand, and have demanded large salaries for years (even before ZIRP)? There's probably a lot wrong with the "coding was never the hard part" take, but this quote…
Exactly, I feel the same way, and was surprised to see so few people pointing this out. Forest vs desert I guess.
Ok, thanks for explaining! Doesn't really explain how the wc eend expression _doesn't_ apply here (which would be hard to do, because it _does_ apply, since this is someone praising their own work, and it doesn't get…
I don't see how Claude code being a widely used product is relevant to the person who orchestrated the Rust rewrite of bun saying that the orchestration of the Rust rewrite of bun went well. Wc eend is a widely used…
It was a commercial slogan for a toilet cleaning agent. An English equivalent would be "mr clean recommends you use mr clean". Today, it is used to point out when someone tells you they themselves delivered good work.…
In Dutch there's a saying, "wij van wc eend adviseren wc eend", and it fits perfectly.
They balance the budget?
It reveals the exact type of mindset that could produce an article like this. All they know is waterfall, so they see agentic coding and think: "you know what we need? More waterfall"
To create goodwill! Nefariously!
I'm nowhere near that level of experience, although I've done both as well. I'm more backend oriented. And my experience has been the opposite. When I ask for backend code, footgun after footgun appears on my screen.…
Would you describe yourself as more skilled at frontend engineering or at backend engineering?
I'm well aware of its context and original meaning, and I'm very happy to twist its meaning into something Kissinger would disagree with any chance I get.
You guessed wrong. As far as I know, there's no such lobby, and I find your suggestion of its existence to be antisemitic. But the pro Israel lobby is quite open and public. Aipac's spending, for example, is public…
As the saying goes, it may be dangerous to be America's enemy, but to be America's friend is fatal. True in the 60s, still true today.
The idea of injecting more indeterminacy in pipelines is beyond me.
Artisanal astroturfing, using organic humans, used to be the norm. Could be that OP is an actual human doing astroturfing.
Why?
> Well, because obviously the finish line of the space race was the Moon. So, this choice is not super obvious to me. If it was called the moon race or whatever, I'd get it. But in this case it just feels like making up…
America won the space race? The only milestone where the US got there first was having boots on the moon. Every other milestone (first artificial satellite, first organism in space, first man in space, first woman,…
Fair point! This post is not a load bearing and accurate description of Claude's workings, it's satire.
> The way you test code cannot (and should not) be decoupled by the way in which you architect the code itself. I'm not sure I fully understand. In my view, it's pretty evident that tests should test behavior and not…
Thank you, I appreciate you sharing this very much! I wish I could read the entire chat, but I imagine there might be some NDA stuff in there if you talk abt real world experiences.
> Teams, em dash bla bla bla em dash have quietly bla bla bla. It's not this, it's _that_. I find it hard to read articles where the agentic writing is this obvious. It's a distraction from the message of the text,…
So, I get the idea of having a layer of abstraction between your tests and the system under test. You decouple _what_ is being done from _how_ it is done, which leads to robust, easily maintained, and even more…
Literally everything except the media writing non-sensationalist headlines about science.
> If coding is easy, how come programmers were in high demand, and have demanded large salaries for years (even before ZIRP)? There's probably a lot wrong with the "coding was never the hard part" take, but this quote…
Exactly, I feel the same way, and was surprised to see so few people pointing this out. Forest vs desert I guess.
Ok, thanks for explaining! Doesn't really explain how the wc eend expression _doesn't_ apply here (which would be hard to do, because it _does_ apply, since this is someone praising their own work, and it doesn't get…
I don't see how Claude code being a widely used product is relevant to the person who orchestrated the Rust rewrite of bun saying that the orchestration of the Rust rewrite of bun went well. Wc eend is a widely used…
It was a commercial slogan for a toilet cleaning agent. An English equivalent would be "mr clean recommends you use mr clean". Today, it is used to point out when someone tells you they themselves delivered good work.…
In Dutch there's a saying, "wij van wc eend adviseren wc eend", and it fits perfectly.
They balance the budget?
It reveals the exact type of mindset that could produce an article like this. All they know is waterfall, so they see agentic coding and think: "you know what we need? More waterfall"
To create goodwill! Nefariously!
I'm nowhere near that level of experience, although I've done both as well. I'm more backend oriented. And my experience has been the opposite. When I ask for backend code, footgun after footgun appears on my screen.…
Would you describe yourself as more skilled at frontend engineering or at backend engineering?
I'm well aware of its context and original meaning, and I'm very happy to twist its meaning into something Kissinger would disagree with any chance I get.
You guessed wrong. As far as I know, there's no such lobby, and I find your suggestion of its existence to be antisemitic. But the pro Israel lobby is quite open and public. Aipac's spending, for example, is public…
As the saying goes, it may be dangerous to be America's enemy, but to be America's friend is fatal. True in the 60s, still true today.
The idea of injecting more indeterminacy in pipelines is beyond me.
Artisanal astroturfing, using organic humans, used to be the norm. Could be that OP is an actual human doing astroturfing.
Why?
> Well, because obviously the finish line of the space race was the Moon. So, this choice is not super obvious to me. If it was called the moon race or whatever, I'd get it. But in this case it just feels like making up…
America won the space race? The only milestone where the US got there first was having boots on the moon. Every other milestone (first artificial satellite, first organism in space, first man in space, first woman,…