MattGaiser

A tool like this never sees the light of day without an LLM. Git is complicated and use case for this is rather niche.

Its astonishing how many people miss that if you have servants, you must be an elite, as by definition, we cannot each have 5 servants.

I guess a lot of this depends on whether you consider juniors to be part of your talent pool. Unless you are retaining them, it is just subsidizing industry at large to train them.

I stayed less than a year at my first two jobs. They bet wrong.

What terminology is required to make Claude Code write code?

My experience with friends has been the opposite. A PM friend made a custom tool. A friend who has never written a line of computer code has an app.

If you tell Claude Code "I want a website that does X, Y, and Z" it will write code.

Gambling has consistently ranked above family for many in human history, so while it hurts a third party, the people involved genuinely believe in it.

Knowledge is knowledge, as long as it can be proven true.

A lot of LLMisms are just poor flowing writing, no matter what the use case.

An enormous amount of on-call debugging is just natural language reading of logs.

That time is otherwise worthless, so yes?

I don't value my travel time at all, but it used to be wasted on travelling.

This speaks to OpenAI's approach to things. But it doesn't speak to Microsoft and Microsoft would need to provide the access.

The problem is that someone has to oversee the junior and the multiplier on productivity also applies to the overseer.

So you could have the senior oversee the junior or just have them oversee Claude.

Not at all. I’m a run of the mill dev who would like to stay ahead of the AI wave.

I think it depends on what kind of senior you are. Juniors are by their nature mostly order fillers. Seniors can be anywhere from more complex code order fillers to fairly well developed experts in business logic.

I suspect that the last white collar workers have been trained outside of regulated fields.

If it can be taught, an AI can do it. The only work left is either manual or inherently new.

I doubt it. The concept of cheating is largely unique to academia and a few uptight professions like law. Everywhere else it is just collaboration or learning or simply something nobody cares about.

I would say that tech largely rewards the behaviours people in academia call cheating.

You can still have multiple contracts.

On the other hand we are also willing to buy it, so reliability is arguably not as valued a good as people assumed.

It’s also trivial to use now. With AI, there’s no meaningful additional work in using a VM.

Or even in 2026. You absoutely will pay a human that for that work.

C# and Java devs are anecdotally the only kind of dev to think of themselves primarily by language.

Most other devs don’t talk about language in a driest few sentences intro.

Doesn't this suggest your use case is simply insufficiently complicated?

> but anything built around long running business processes should not be treated in that way.

Arguably they are even more willing to cut corners though. Nothing by IBM or SAP should be considered "crafted", yet those companies have a strong place in the world of business today.

$20 for an everything tool is a steal. It’s a steal at 10x the price.

I’ll happily accept best effort in exchange for it being so cheap that I can throw it at any trivial annoyance.

It’s worth keeping in mind that the alternative is not really that I learn to fix the printer. It’s that I forgo printing and walk someone technologically illiterate through Docusign or something instead.

There’s no world where I spend 2 hours debugging my printer connection.

My grandparents had a dishwasher from the 1980s. The contractor they hired to fix it didn’t even know how to take it out of the spot as it had an old design that attached it at the top.

ChatGPT both told me exactly why from the model number (had to disconnect a part), found a new part, and told me step by step how that part would be taken out.

We didn’t end up buying the new part, but it beat the repairman.

The virtue is never having to know for stupid printer crap.

I guess I am mostly intrigued that those lists would differ greatly with respect to cleaning.

Yeah, I just had Claude fill out the task list, and then before hitting the end of the task list ask whether I wanted to continue or whether getting some of it done was enough....

And it still seems unclear what they thought they could get from the war in the first place.

Sympathy. Railway is going to have numerous people blaming them for this outage. When us-east-1 fails, it is headline news, so you are not to blame.

Way back when I was working my first job, datalist didn’t work on Firefox. That’s what got Firefox removed from the list of supported browsers.

It has been a problem for a long time if you want to support anything other than Chrome.