[Avicebron]

>only wasted 5min of Claude's time rather than hours of mine

I mean will you (we) retain all that it did after a few months go by? You may say we don't need to, but that sounds a little shallow given we're both on HN. Do you remember Gatsby's criticism of "Summer People"?

[fluidcruft]

I don't even remember things I did two years ago unless I leave good breadcrumbs and documentation. I don't think it's particularly worse than pulling in some dependency or framework from GitHub that will be completely different next year anyway. And Google's prone to change anything in Android anyway. Mobile or web seems like a foundation of quicksand, it's not anything I care about. The real takeaway is I can be productive without wasting my time on all the damn churn by just-in-time learning aided by these tools.

I'm pretty sure I will remember how easy and correct it was to modify Caddy vs the months of putzing around building Rube Goldberg constellations of services crap that I did last year for a different thing and that even Claude wanted to do. I've done the whole wading through outdated blog posts and trying to read documentation on other projects that I was doing. Learning five different projects and having to maintain seven services running in docker just so that I can use a tool to capture photos and store them in a webapp that can only be used if connected to my own VPN is insane and it's why I am not a web developer. I will 100% remember what 200 lines of golang does after looking at it again. The 1000 lines of JavaScript that were and backend auth crap that no longer exists: good riddance.

And no I don't trust my memory about what Gatsby said about Summer people without looking it up. I read Gatsby 30 years ago.