Telling Claude to solve a problem and walking away isn't a problem you solved. You weren't in the loop. You didn't complete any side quests or do anything of note, you merely watched an AGI work.
Telling Claude to solve a problem and walking away isn't a problem you solved. You weren't in the loop. You didn't complete any side quests or do anything of note, you merely watched an AGI work.
Here's one I did even less work for: https://tools.simonwillison.net/terminal-to-html - prompt and video here: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Oct/23/claude-code-for-web-vi...
Writing your Java code on an IDE, you just sat by while the interpreter did all the work on the generated byte code and corresponding assembly.
You merely watched the tools do the work.
This exactly is the part that lots of folks are missing. As programmers in a high level language (C, Rust, Python ..) we were merely guiding the compiler to create code. You could say the compiler/interpreter is more deterministic, but the fact remains the code that is run is 100% not what you wrote, and you're at the mercy of the tool .. which we trust.
Compiled output can change between versions, heck, can even change during runtime (JIT compilation).
The hubris here, which is very short-sighted, is the idea that a. You have very important contributions to make and b. You cannot possibly be replaced.
If you're barely doing anything neither of these things can possibly be true even with current technology.
This is a failure of analogy. Artificial intelligence isn't a normal technology.
I don't think anyone would claim that writing a poem yourself and hiring someone to write a poem for you are the same thing.
In the same way, there is a distinct difference form having and encoding the concepts behind a piece of software yourself and having a rough idea of what you want and hiring a bunch of people to work out that conceptualization for you. Contrarily, a compiler or interpreter is just a strict translation of one representation of that conceptualization into another (modulo maybe alterations in one dimension, namely efficiency). It's a completely different dynamic and these snarky analogies are either disingenuous or show that AI boosters understand and reflect on what it is they are really doing far less than the critics.
Who cares? I don’t see any issue. I write code to put software into users hands, not because I like to write code.
You don't see any issue with the I in this equation falling out of relevance?
Not even a scrap of self-preservation?
Since I ended my career as a wage worker and just sell my own software now, automation is great for me. Even before GPT hype I saw the writing on the wall for relying on a salary and got out so that I could own the value of my labor.
I don’t see my customers being able to one-shot their way to the full package of what I provide them anytime soon either. As they gain that capability, I also gain the capability to accelerate what more value I provide them.
I don’t think automation is the cause of your inability to feed and house yourself if it reduces the labor needed by capital. That’s a social and political issue.
Edit: I have competitors already cloning them with CC regularly, and they spend more than 24h dedicated to it too
If the capability does arrive, that’s why I’m using what I can today to get a bag before it’s too late.
I can’t stop development of automation. But I can help workers organize, that’s more practical.
>I don’t see my customers being able to one-shot their way to the full package of what I provide them anytime soon either
What if they are, or worse? Are you prepared for that?
If you point me towards your products, someone can try to replicate them in 24 hours. Sound good?
Edit: I found it, but your website is broken on mobile. Needs work before it's ready to be put into the replication machine. If you'd like I can do this for you for a small fee at my consulting rate (wink emoji).
> someone can try to replicate them in 24 hours.
All the more reason to not hand-code it in a week.
Idk what you found but it’s an iOS/Mac app
I’m not sure what your point is. That I should give up because everything can already be replicated? That I shouldn’t use LLMs to accelerate my work? That I should feel bad for using them?
I live for shareholder value.
It feels great to when I’m the only shareholder
Do you think a programmer not using AI will stop it's march forward?
…over a road of bones? Is that your image?
I'm not scared for me, but I'm definitely worried for some of you. You seem weirdly trusting. What if the thing you're counting on is really not all you think it is? So far I'm about as impressed as I am of the spam in my inbox.
There sure is a lot of it, but the best it can do is fool me into evaluating it like it's a real communication or interaction, only to bounce off the basic hollowness of what's offered. What I'm trying to do it doesn't _do_… I've got stuff that does, for instance leaning into the genetic algorithm, but even then dealing with optimizing fitness functions is very much on me (and is going well, thanks for asking).
Why should I care if AI is marching if it's marching in circles, into a wall, or off a cliff? Maybe what you're trying to do is simply not very good or interesting. It'd be nice if my work could get away with such hollow, empty results but then I wouldn't be interested in it either…
As your response is that for someone to find productivity with this tool, the only way you can understand that to be true is for their work to be hollow and the results uninteresting and must be beneath you, I will simply say about the rest of your message: Skill issue
If more people see the cows 4 beef analogy we gain more votes against it.
exactly. the problem did get solved though which is the whole point :)