MattGaiser

> Petro is pretty much upstream of everything: plastics, fertilizers, pharmaceuticals, cooking oils, lubricants, cosmetics. Dow chemical just doubled the cost of polyethylene as of April 1st. Taiwan relies on LNG for 40% of its energy production and has like 10 days of fuel left--semis are implicated.

This is, on the high end, 20% of the use of fossil fuels. We overwhelmingly burn oil and gas. If we displaced the burning, Hormuz would not matter (or would minimally matter for a few molecules) and the world would be awash in abundant supplies.

Renewable investment would solve/would have prevented this crisis.

Eh, the war in Ukraine has kind of proven that the Europeans are not all that capable of action. There has been an enormous incentive to have been getting rid of oil dependency for 4 years now.

He is not technical but a product guy, so he still wants me to check it over.

Allow your OpenClaw to feed your pet reptile?

I am already there with a project/startup with a friend. He writes up an issue in GitHub and there is a job that automatically triggers Claude to take a crack at it and throw up a PR. He can see the change in an ephemeral environment. He hasn't merged one yet, but it will get there one day for smaller items.

I am already at the point where because it is just the two of us, the limiting factor is his own needs, not my ability to ship features.

> But the concept is rooted in the idea of encouraging carmaker employees to buy what they build.

Absent of course is any introspection from management on why such coercion is required.

What the masses have found entertaining has always been referred to as slop, so I am not sure it matters.

Novels, cinema, television, comic books, etc.

They were all considered careless skill-free slop at some point.

I am deeply baffled by AI denial at this point.

> And it is on a portion of the Start menu that can be fully disabled.

I mean, with tons of effort and config Windows can be turned into a usable OS. Needing to do all that is a huge part of the problem.

Yep. In many cases I am just reviewing test cases it generated now.

> if it breaks, let agents fix it, no manual debugging needed!" ?

Pretty trivial to have every Sentry issue have an immediate first pass by AI now to attempt to solve the bug.

> agent try everything that the LLM chatbot had recommended ($$$)

A lot depends on whether it is expensive to you. I use Claude Code for the smallest of whims and rarely run out of tokens on my Max plan.

Craftsmen have consistently vastly overestimated where the floor is for the quality customers will accept, from clothing to shoes to system security to how much RAM a piece of software uses.

Customers consistently prefer cheap.

There will always be a few niche cases where someone values something more, but not at the mass market.

Yes, people think this behaviour came out of nowhere. It’s because if you are younger, phone calls are not the default (only two friends ever call me) and overwhelmingly are scammers or salespeople.

Oh I agree. I need to be developing more product skills as a result. But the threat of that is very clearly there.

It is kinder than the alternative, which is to just keep raising expectations and letting people get walloped out of the blue.

Lots of companies otherwise basically let employees miss the train and then lay them off for it and then they are stuck searching for a job with no modern skills.

To me this is the warning. AI may or may not pan out, but if it does, you don’t get to say you were blindsided.

They probably assume a regular would log in.

Different definitions of programming.

OP defines it as getting the machine to do as he wants.

You define it as the actual act of writing the detailed instructions.

For one thing, you can test a lot more scenarios for very cheaply.

> I am going to try to make these points to my team, because I am seeing a huge influx of AI-generated PRs where the submitter interacts with CodeRabbit etc. by having Claude/Codex respond to feedback on their behalf.

Are people generally unhappy with the outcomes of this? As anecdotally, it does seem to pass review later on. Code is getting through this way.

> It is the most Degenerate form of gambling out there. There is no skill, no human factor, no nothing. Just pure random numbers.

How is this any more degenerate than slot machines? At least it is truly random, rather than rigged.

I am kind of already at that point. For all the complaining about context windows being stuffed with MCPs, I am curious what they are up to and how many MCPs they have that this is a problem.

Medical and defense, for regulatory and security reasons respectively.

> Parents reach a period in life where their kids strike out on their own and want little to do with them beyond a safety net. That’s normal and natural and the parents move onto a new phase too.

This is at best extremely cultural. It is certainly not a global norm and not really viewed as desirable, just necessary.

Average American doesn't move very far at all from their parents and America is where the idea of time limited parenting is most prevalent.

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2015/12/24/upshot/24up-f...

Really, just lack shame and sell something you do not have and bet that you can get it before anyone really presses too hard. It's an incredible thing to see.

Non-technicals do.

How many agents are you using at once?

And I cannot say I have seen the code in this case, so I cannot say for sure, but I have gotten into plenty of code review arguments about whether code should be longer, cover more cases, and be easier to read, or be shorter.

Humans write code in a lot of different ways.

i18n is far easier to build in early and with a Claude hook, is trivial to keep up with. A lot depends on how far you go with multilingual support.

What percentage of people actually can get 8 hours of sleep? I do not sleep 8 hours. I can be on vacay in an R&R destination and still not get 8 hours of sleep.

AI can handle all the docs, CI/CD, and deploys too if you give it CLI access and terraform.