[henrygarner]

Over a weekend, between board games and time with my kids, Claude and I built a distributed system with Byzantine fault tolerance, strong consistency and crash recovery under arbitrary failures. I described the behaviour I wanted in Allium, worked through the bugs conversationally and didn't write a line of implementation code.

[SPICLK2]

I don't see why you need to bring your kids into this, and as a parent any suggestion of being distracted by tech during time with the kids raises my suspicions.

We have a strict no laptops and no phones rule when the kids are around (unless we're specifically doing something with them using those tools - looking at the weather forecast, or looking up some information).

"I can prompt AI while playing with the kids" is not a future I want.

[retsibsi]

They said "between", not "during"; I think the point was that they didn't spend a full weekend with Claude.

edit: anyone care to explain why this is a bad comment, rather than just downvoting? The GP comment says "Over a weekend, between board games and time with my kids,", and the parent comment lectures them based on an obvious strawman: "I can prompt AI while playing with the kids"

[SPICLK2]

I'll bite.

"between time with the kids" is another person's "during time with the kids".

For me, "between time with the kids" means my kids are engaged in another activity that does not require my input until they are done with it. Whatever I am doing during this time also is typically very interruptible, so I am ready to help the kids along to their next "thing" (the joys of being a parent!). On a typical weekend (my oldest is 7), I'll get maybe 2 hours of this time during the time my kids are awake.

[retsibsi]

That all makes sense, but I don't see how it supports your uncharitable read of the original comment. Both because they could very easily have meant something a bit different (we have no idea how old the kids are or whether they were even around all weekend; maybe there were times when they were at friends' houses or similar), and because vibe coding could be the interruptible activity they do while the kids are busy. Maybe you feel strongly that it's not a legitimate use of that kind of semi-downtime, but we don't know if that's what they were talking about in the first place.

[SPICLK2]

"Hours spent on the project" would be a much more useful metric, with no confounding variables. As it is, the mere mention of interleaving time with your kids and time engrossed in tech hits a nerve at time when IMO too many parents are doing this already, and lends unwarranted validity to the idea.